Despite the rash of horrific headlines about bicycle and pedestrian fatalities in New York, including the deaths of cyclist Neftaly Ramirez and skateboarder Alejandro Tello just two weekends ago, the results of a new city-wide study released today claim the streets are actually getting safer.
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Pour One of These Out for the Kosciuszko Bridge
The new brew. Instagram: nyccraftbeer.
After several weeks of delays the long-awaited demolition of Greenpoint’s old Kosciuszko Bridge began yesterday, despite the intercession of a band of sword-waving and wolf-wielding marauders. (The “new” Kosciuszko Bridge has been in use since April.)
Tenants Demand Cooking Gas, Say Their Landlord’s Response Is ‘Tough Turkey’
Brad Hoylman and Toledano Tenant Coalition.(Photo: Katherine Barner)
While many of us are prepping for a Thanksgiving feast, the tenants of 325 East 12th Street are stocking up on TV dinners. They won’t be able to cook a proper Thanksgiving meal in their own homes this year and haven’t been able to cook for quite a while. Their building has been without gas for over six months since demolition forced Con Ed to turn it off. With the holiday season upon them, they’re feeling the frustration more than ever.
Latest Buzz: Vibrator Store That Unionized Now Faces Unfair Labor Charges
(Photo: Maura Murnanae)
Just six months after becoming the first sex shop to unionize, Babeland has been accused of unlawfully firing an employee and engaging in practices that violate the National Labor Relations Act.
The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) filed an Unfair Labor Practice charge against the sex shop’s owners yesterday, November 14.
Report Says New York City Housing is Grossly Unaffordable; Sky is Blue
Tenants, many of them living in rent-stabilized units, rallying in Chinatown to protest construction as harassment in December (Photo by Nicole Disser)
Given that New York City is a place where making “just” $70 to 92k a year can qualify you for affordable housing—thanks, Upper West Side condo developers—it makes sense that homeownership rates here are low. Just how low, however, is a little jarring. According to a new study published by NYU’s Furman Center and Citi, only 42 percent of homes sold on the market in 2014 were affordable even to those making as much as $114,000 a year.
Cops Search for Bushwick Rapist; 82 New Condos for E. 12th St
(Photo: Daniel Maurer)
Police are searching for a 24-year-old man who allegedly raped a 10-year-old this October on Bushwick’s Moffat Street. [NY Daily News]
Developer Douglas Steiner reportedly secured a $130 million bank loan to build an 82-unit condominium at 438 E. 12th Street. [Commercial Observer]
Whole Foods will pay half a million dollars in a settlement resulting from allegations that New York customers were routinely overcharged for prepackaged foods. [Wall Street Journal]
The Hunt Brings Stuffed Bears, Miley’s Pig, and Other Oddities to Canal Street
As its name implies, it takes some effort to discover the new storefront of Lower East Side’s enigmatic purveyors with panache, The Hunt. Framed under an electronics store sign belonging to an old tenant, The Hunt’s cryptic entrance acts as a sort of portal into the world contained within – part store, part museum – where the line between old and new is a bit uncertain.
Tags: Antique, chinatown, clothes, Fashion + Shopping, Lower East Side, news, Retail, The Hunt, Vintage
European Food Importer Brings a Wine Bar and Cafe to Bedford Ave
The University Place location. (Photos: Daniel Maurer)
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New York Pizza Project Searches For a Slice of Authenticity
If there are two constants we face as New Yorkers, one is change and the other, our hunger for pizza. It was only a matter of time then before someone combined the two — in this case, five friends who over the past four years documented a changing New York through the time-weathered eyes of 120 of the “most authentic slice joints.” The result of there efforts: The New York Pizza Project book, which launched last week. In the excitement of the long-awaited release, we caught up with project member Ian Manheimer to find out more about the project, his thoughts on the precarious concept that is authenticity, and what makes the perfect pizzeria.
Tiger + Man Merge Electronic and Acoustic For ‘That Awesome Mix of Grit and Power’
Tiger + Man (Photo: Nir Arieli)
For several hours last night, New York-based singer/songwriter Tiger Darrow, covered in a thick layer of latex, sat statuesque in an inflatable splash pool placed atop a mechanically rotating chair. Why? Some might call it madness, others a vision. “You look like a cross between the robot in Ex Machina and something out of a Guillermo Del Toro movie,” said director Mike Donaghey.