Wednesday, June 24, 2020

EVG Etc.: Primary results; fireworks crackdown


[On the Bowery]

• Preliminary results from the 2020 NY Primary (Gothamist)

• State's takeout cocktail law expires this weekend, causing more worry for bars-restaurants (Eater)

• Mayor turns alternate-side parking into a once-a-week affair (Streetsblog)

• City cracking down on illegal fireworks (ABC 7)

• Speaking of ...: Details on this year's Macy's July 4 Fireworks Show (NBC 4)

• NYC's rent-stabilized apartments receive one-year rent freeze (Curbed)

... and earlier this month, the Post reported that Avraham Adler, who had been accused of hosting sex parties in a townhouse rental on Seventh Street, had been charged with assaulting his girlfriend and taken into custody. (Previously on EVG.)

Over the weekend, neighbors here between Avenue B and Avenue C saw people removing furniture from the house, packed up in both a rental truck and dumpster (h/t Dave on 7th!)...



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4 comments:

  1. GiovanniJune 24, 2020 at 1:33 PM

    Wait, so the Mayor’s solution to the fireworks pandemic is to put on six nights in a row of Macy’s fireworks? Macy’s just needs to cancel this thing this year. It’s not like people haven’t seen enough fireworks are ready. And if the goal is to reduce people getting together in big crowds, then why put on a fireworks show at all?

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  2. AnonymousJune 24, 2020 at 5:10 PM

    > And if the goal is to reduce people getting together in big crowds, then why put on a fireworks show at all?

    The goal is to get NYC back to the tourist-tax-revenue-money pumping state that it was in. So the best way is to look like NYC is doing all right and everything is normal, residents be damned.

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  3. AnonymousJune 24, 2020 at 11:40 PM

    About the Macy's fireworks, so now we're going to have "stealth" fireworks shows spread out across most of a week?! Because that won't encourage all the nonsense that we're already seeing in terms of illegal fireworks??

    As usual de Blasio's instinct is 100% WRONG. He does NOT ever have a CLUE about how to deal with NYC. His raised-in-Massachusetts-mindset betrays him every single time!

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  4. jdbJune 25, 2020 at 3:47 PM

    RE: the photo of the Trek store.

    They make tons of money selling bike to cops. You can't be on both sides.

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