Police were called to check out a piece of “suspicious luggage” in front of 39 Eldridge Street in Chinatown at around 1:45 pm this afternoon. A resident who lives across the street from the building, which houses the Preschool of America, sent B+B this video of the incident which captures a member of the bomb squad carefully dismantling a suitcase.
Crime + Community
Hundreds of Protesters Take the Fight Against Donald Trump to His Backyard
(Photos: Sarah Aziza)
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has been protested with street art, gallery shows, and even a piñata pummeling, but yesterday brought an unprecedented scene as an eclectic crowd of New Yorkers gathered outside the Republican candidate’s own Trump Tower, wielding signs calling to “END RACISM” and “WELCOME REFUGEES.”
Tags: Crime + Community, Donald Trump, immigration, Islam, muslims, protests, rally, Syria, syrian refugees, trump tower
Early-Morning Stabbing Outside of East Village Massage Parlor
A man was stabbed in the back early Saturday morning on a quiet East Village block.
The 49-year-old victim was standing in front of 311 East 9th Street, between First and Second Avenues, when two men approached him and stabbed him several times, the police say. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital, treated and released.
The NYPD has circulated the above video of the suspects, which shows them standing in front of Skyline Spa, a massage parlor next-door to the address in question, and seemingly heading in. According to its posted operating hours, Skyline would’ve been open at 4:40 a.m., when the incident occurred. There was no answer when we tried to reach the parlor this morning.
Tags: Crime + Community, East Village
Video: Hundreds, Including Mayor, Gather to Show That ‘New York Is Paris’
Hundreds of people, including Mayor Bill de Blasio, poured into Washington Square Park this afternoon for a “New York is Paris” gathering intended to send “love and support to the people of France” following last night’s terror attacks. Watch our video to hear from the mayor and others who gathered around the arch, sometimes breaking into France’s national anthem. Tonight, the monument, modeled after the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, was lit in the colors of the French flag.
Toast Some Community-Minded Docs About Rockaway and Bushwick
This week, hit these events and support a trio of documentaries about the changing faces of two communities.
Two Rockaway Docs: A Film Benefit for Sandy with Live Music
Nov. 1 at 7pm, Peter Jay Sharp Building, BAM Rose Cinemas, $25.
Long before fish tacos brought on the Rockaway rebirth, the seaside community was a destination for New Yorkers looking to escape the sweltering city. Back in the 1930s, some 7,000 bungalows housed the “bungaloonies” who flocked to the Irish Riviera for a weekend of pub crawling or a ride on the Thunderbolt at Playland. Now, as Rockaway real estate becomes the next “shore thing,” fewer than 450 of the charming shacks remain (one of them, it so happens, belongs to Patti Smith). Jennifer Callahan’s documentary, The Bungalows of Rockaway, tells us how, exactly, we lost so many of them, and — much like the recently released Welcome to Kutscher’s documentary did with the fabled Catskills resort — milks former inhabitants for summer nostalgia.
Afternoon Gunfire Took Out a Bus and Injured a Passenger in Bushwick
(Photo: Arielle Castillo via Twitter)
Gunfire stopped an MTA bus in its tracks as it was driving through Bushwick this afternoon, and sent a passenger to the hospital.
The 13 People You Meet On St. Marks Place, Per St. Marks Is Dead
Everyone has a St. Marks story — my first was smoking free hash after getting ripped off on bunk X. “And since the middle of the twentieth century, kids from all over the country, and the world, who wanted to be writers or artists or do drugs have come to St. Marks Place to find one another and themselves.” So says St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America’s Coolest Street, the dizzyingly fascinating mostly-oral history by Ada Calhoun, which launches Monday, Nov. 2, at Cooper Union with free beer from Brooklyn Brewery and a punk cover band—the St. Marks Zeroes—featuring Ad-Rock.
Still Not Sold On Sanders? Maybe This Bernie O’ Lantern Will Do the Trick
Despite the cold that had descended on Washington Square Park Monday evening, a half dozen activists were clearly feeling The Bern. Their task: get Democrats registered to vote in New York’s April primary — hopefully for Bernie Sanders, their feisty man of the people.
East Villagers Not So Bubbly About Late-Night Crust Cravers
East Village residents sounded off to cops last night about noisy drunks, particularly those devouring artichoke slices into the pre-dawn hours.
Greenpointers, Hold Your Nose Up High and Learn About Your Hood’s Polluted Past
Sewer overflow near the the Boat Club. (Photo courtesy Newtown Creek Alliance)
Just a few days after CUNY social journalism fellow Aaron Smith launched his blog “The Brooklyn Memory Project” with an unsettling video of a retired Greenpoint NYPD detective recalling all the cancer deaths he’s witnessed (possibly due to the area’s oil spill), Greenpoint Waterfront Association for Parks and Planning is launching a series of forums about North Brooklyn’s environmental issues, starting with a discussion tonight about Greenpoint’s polluted past.