February 2012
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ABC No Rio to be Demolished
Is Punk, DIY Art in NYC Going Down With The Building?
by Emily Colucci on January 30, 2012
“Going Down With the Building” literally, Michael Alan’s Living Installation at ABC No Rio (photo by Worm Carnevale)
Sitting in a cold performance space in the gritty, graffiti-ed punk art institution, ABC No Rio, for possibly the final time before the building is demolished for...
January 2012
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NYPD Commissioner’s Son Accused of Rape
=Greg Kelly: Police Commissioner’s Son Accused of Rape By Joe Coscarelli
Father and son.
The news this morning that the Manhattan district attorney is investigating rape allegations against Greg Kelly might have been extra startling to those used to waking up to his smiling face on Good Day New York, the show he’s anchored on Fox 5 since 2008. Kelly wasn’t on air today, as...
Southpaw club closing, kid's Tutoring Center to...
Two New York City musical mainstays — Bleecker Bob’s Golden Oldies, a record store in Greenwich Village andSouthpaw, a performance space in Park Slope — are calling it quits. And what will replace them may provide fresh evidence that the city has traded its longtime rock ’n’ roll edge for something mellower, and a bit corporate. What’s Really Happening To Park Slope’s Southpaw?
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Muslim New Yorkers call for Kelly, Browne...
Muslim NYers Call For Police Commissioner’s Resignation
And Bloomberg’s response: they are doing a heck of’a job!
Harlem Churches decimated by gentrification
The gentrification of Harlem has helped deplete their ranks, as younger residents, black and white, have arrived but not taken up places in their pews. Longtime Harlem families, either cashing in on the real estate boom over the past decade or simply opting to head south for their retirement, have left the neighborhood and its churches.
Some Harlem Churches in Fight for Survival
Ozier...
2012: Atlantic Yards is coming
NYT asks “Or will it be a vortex of traffic, trash and other civic headaches, as some residents fear?”
Really NYT, there is some hesitation and doubt in your mind as to what it’s going to be?
We are f$$$d. Brooklyn is f$$$d. Thank you, again, Michael Bloomberg.
When the sports arena that anchors the $4.9 billion Atlantic Yards project finally opens in September, after more...
December 2011
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Bloomberg cracks down on Washington Square Park
The department’s rule, one of many put in place a year ago, was intended to control commerce in the busiest parks. Under the city’s definition, vending covers not only those peddling photographs and ankle bracelets, but also performers who solicit donations. Enforcement in Washington Square Park in the past two months has generated summonses ranging from $250 to $1,000. “Is this place zany?”...
Another greedy landlord, another New York...
As passers-by gazed at him, Mr. Leroy, 52, took a puff on a cigar and told them, “Welcome to the old Bowery,” before turning to enter the shop, housed beneath a faded and tattered canvas tent between the Bowery and Elizabeth Street. Soon, Mr. Leroy said, he will hang a banner at the store announcing that the tent is coming down. He said his landlord planned to start construction on a two-story...
November 2011
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Barclays vs Christie's Jamaican Patty
Paul Haye, who runs Christie’s Jamaican Patties on Flatbush Avenue and Sterling Place, says he’ll close by January, claiming his landlord — who last spring welcomed embattled sports bar Prime 6to the neighborhood — gave him the boot in order to collect higher rent from a new tenant, now that Barclays Center is closer to completion. Businesses owners in Fort Greene and north Park Slope also...
Is Ray Kelly’s NYPD Spinning Out of Control?
Is Ray Kelly’s NYPD Spinning Out of Control?
By Daniel Edward Rosen/NY Observer Between racist cops, rape cops, ticket-fixers, gun-runners and ‘white shirts’ gone wild, New York’s Finest are losing their shine. Is the commissioner to blame?
Illustration: Jason Seiler
The commissioner of America’s largest police force was not on hand last week to see a horde of his own...
Arrested for not having ID
Dismal Tale of Arrest for Tiniest of Crimes
Jeff Swensen for The New York Times
Samantha Zucker in Pittsburgh, where she attends college. She was arrested in Manhattan.
By JIM DWYER
Published: New York Times, November 1, 2011
Here, in the pointless arrest of Ms. Zucker, is a crime that is not even on the books: the staggering waste of spirit, the squandering of public resources, the follies...
October 2011
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Cooper Union Rejects St. Mark's Bookshop Request
The Cooper Union Rejects Request by St. Mark’s Bookshop to Lower Rent but Cooper Square Committee Remains Undeterred by this Setback.
October 27, 2011. New York, NY: While Cooper Union’s negative decision is a disappointment, the Cooper Square Committee remain committed and vows to increase its efforts to ensure that the St. Marks Bookshop will not become another casualty of the...
September 2011
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Friendly’s Faces an Unhappy Ending
If you grew up on the East Coast of the U.S., you’ve likely dined at a Friendly’s restaurant in your lifetime, and very possibly more than once. It was the depressing, suburban chain restaurant that was a little less depressing than the others, mainly because the promise of an ice cream sundae — the “Happy Ending,” as their menu dubbed it, sweetly oblivious to any vulgar...
Brown Power at #OccupyWallStreet
Brown Power at Occupy Wall Street! 9/29/11
Hena Ashraf September 30, 2011
Once again, it is Thursday night, and once again, I am writing this because I think it needs to be documented and shared. And once again, this is about mass actions taking place in NYC. Once again, please feel free to share this.
The following is from my perspective:
Tonight was my 4th time down at Occupy Wall Street....
Last slice at Ray's Pizza
“the sad fact is that the 2011 version of Little Italy with its five-figure commercial rents is not designed in the interests of mom-and-pop pizza parlors that people come there expecting to see.”
Ray’s Pizza, the First of Many, Counts Down to Its Last Slice
By MICHAEL WILSON
It did not call itself the flagship Ray’s Pizza because it never really had a fleet. It was not Original...
St Marks Bookshop
Save the St Marks Bookshop
By Joyce Ravitz (Contact)
Thank you for acting so promptly by signing the petition to save the St. Mark’s Bookshop. As we write this, almost 30,000 have signed the petition. To bring you up to date: You and many of our elected officials have forced Cooper Union to meet with the owners to negotiate a new lease. Bravo! We will keep you up to date. We cannot...
August 2011
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9/11: The Winners
New York City firefighter Kenny Specht: ”The intersection of 9/11 and money is a busy intersection” says retired New York City firefighter Kenny Specht.
Professor Glenn Corbett: “A lot of people and a lot of companies have made a lot of money off of 9/11.”
Is it sacrilege to point this out?
9|11 The Winners
For some people, the terrorist attacks have been a gold...
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Bed-Stuy white population "soars"
“You’re getting new money, new people, you get different types of services and stores, and you get more police protection. Homeowners are doing well, but if you’re a renter, those prices have gone up also and that has pushed some people into moving out.”
“…white families and single hipsters moving into Bed-Stuy, as renters and owners, who seem to be disconnected from, unaware of,...
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It starts with Bloomberg, killer of sheep
“If New York is a business,” the mayor said in 2003, “it isn’t Walmart—it isn’t trying to be the lowest-priced product in the market. It’s a high-end product, maybe even a luxury product. New York offers tremendous value, but only for those companies able to capitalize on it.”
The city now acts as its own advertisement to draw in members of the...
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Warriors, don't come out to play
The city, which owns 6.2 acres of Coney Island, was concentrating less on nostalgia and more on economics when it hired an Italian amusement park company to reinvigorate the flailing beach haven, which has undergone seemingly constant transformations over the past 130 years. The company, which said it had invested over $25 million already, has been eager to upgrade the boardwalk to make it more...
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Freaks get out
“Where are all the punk kids? Maybe they don’t know,” said Ms. Ramona The building is to be sold for over $80 million to the developer Joseph Chetrit… Extensive renovations are expected to take at least a year. The hotel’s 100 permanent residents will be allowed to stay, but they have been told nothing beyond what the startled hotel workers learned late last week: that all reservations...
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New York is ready for white-wash
“In New York like many other cities, blacks are leaving the city for the suburbs and elsewhere, leading to an increase in the white presence among younger segments of the city population”
But while minorities accounted for most Bronx residents of every age below 96, non-Hispanic whites are a majority of Manhattanites in their 20s and 30s and also of the borough’s residents 57 and older.
The wide...
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