Above: 4th Street cooling center
• Why 10th Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue poses a challenge to Mayor Adams' "trash revolution" (Gothamist)
• Two NYPD sergeants shot and wounded responding to a robbery on Delancey and Eldridge (1010 WINS ... the Post ... CBS News)
• DA announces indictment in horrific collision that killed four and injured seven others at Corlears Hook Park on July 4 (DA's office... previously on EVG)
• Why Chika and Don Tillman decided to close their 10th Street dessert bar, ChikaLicious, after 21 years in business. (Grub Street)
• An East Village best restaurants listicle (Time Out)
• The red-tailed hawk fledglings are getting around Tompkins Square Park (Laura Goggin Photography)
• 50 years of the Ramones at CBGB (The Bowery Boys)
• The mystery balcony on the Bowery (Ephemeral New York)
• Catch a screening of "Saturday Night Fever" Monday at the Village East by Angelika (Official site)
• An ongoing series with films that incorporate preexisting documentary transcripts into fictionalized or re-staged contexts (Anthology Film Archives)
• This September, Belarus Free Theatre returns to La MaMa with "KS6: Small Forward," a new stage production based on the life story of Belarusian international-basketball-player-turned-activist Katsiaryna (Katya) Snytsina (La MaMa)
... and free today on 10th Street at First Avenue (H/T Steven)...
Love an old school cooling center.
ReplyDeleteDue to the power of big real estate , the City has allowed unfettered development and never required developers to ensure setback and space for trash etc.
ReplyDeleteWith more and more luxury high rises going up on small narrow streets where the original buildings were just a few stories, the street trash is even more of a nightmare .
Take a look at FiDi. Garbage in bags from the Gehry building takes up the whole sidewalk.
Will be impossible with bins.
Same issue with other buildings nearby - no place to walk on Fulton due to new luxury high rises.
Funny that you use the powerful big real estate developers term FiDi.
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ReplyDeleteI myself am a lifelong New Yorker but reluctantly use FiDi sometimes as many people are unfamiliar with the streets in the area.
Worth noting that the Gehry building spans Spruce and Beekman but the trash is placed on Beekman.
Over the past 10 years, high-rise luxury buildings have gone up on Fulton, John and other streets and more in the queue.
Also residential buildings create more trash (especially with sad new normal of e-commerce) than standard office buildings
Just as the outrage over the public land gift to the hospitality industry is starting to settle down, the next insane urban planning disaster in months away. The "one size fits all" proposal must have been conceived by a person(s) which has never lived nor probably set foot in NYC. Most blocks have a range of building types, from recent condo, pre-war 30's to 19th century tenement buildings and the occasional single family home. Imagine finding a spot in the front of the buildings which do not have easy access to the buildings basement. How does one secure these bins (the city wants three separate bins) from theft. Yes they will be stolen since the city is not handing them out for free. Another object for tagging and the most laughable of all, rates will quickly chew through these bins mocking all of us.
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