The building will ultimately have 65 units: 13 affordable condos, 52 market-rate studio through two-bedroom rentals, and two commercial condos. Nine of those affordable condos "have been reserved for the tenants of the original buildings displaced by the new construction" ...
This classic NY apartment on St. Marks Place has several exposed brick walls with a wood burning fireplace. It provides outstanding light, 11 foot ceilings and an open layout. Your bathroom has been renovated in a clean and contemporary style while the loft style bedroom offers you the best night sleep.
Bikes and electronic docking components for the program are being stored in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, which took on four to six feet of water during the storm surge two weeks ago.
Officials at the Transportation Department say they are now "assessing" the damage.
They won't say if the first of 10,000 street bikes that were supposed to hit the streets starting in March will be rolled out on schedule.
Block Association Meeting
Wednesday, November 14, 7 pm
@ Father's Heart Ministries
545 E 11th St
Anyone living on 11th Street is a member of the 11th Street A-B-C Block Association.
My bike was stolen today ...
Stolen outside The Bean on 3rd Street and 2nd Avenue
Time: 10:45am
Date: Wednesday, November 14th
Model: Linus, Dover 1 single speed
Color: Black
Details: Silver basket (that's a pre-basket photo above)
• "Starbucks Coffee (Starbucks Corp), 1st Ave and E 3rd Street – new revocable consent to install, maintain and use 4 benches on the sidewalks of the southwest corner of 1st Ave and E 3rd Street"
By the time [Con Ed CEO James] Burke reached the command room, word was already circulating through the media and among his staff that Con Ed's 13th Street sub-station, one of the largest in the city, had blown up.
In the room, John Miksad, one of Burke's top lieutenants, was on the phone with a crew at one of the lower Manhattan power stations that had been turned off getting a report on the flooding when the lights in the command center went off and on. Miksad looked up at one of the three giant screens at the front of the room that displayed the number of Con Ed customers who had lost power. Before the lights went off it was about 100,000. When the screen came back on a moment later, the number had jumped by more than 200,000.
John McAvoy, another one of Burke's top lieutenants, was already on the phone with workers at the 13th Street station when Miksad came over. Everyone was okay. They didn't see any fires. Power was out. The first floor control room was still dry but outside the streets had turned into rivers. Water was pouring over the wall. They wanted out.
Miksad, though, wanted in. His computers weren't telling him anything. He would need to get into the plant and look at the equipment to know what had happened, but he couldn't leave the command center. He told McAvoy to send an engineer on the rescue mission.
Shortly after that, Miksad got an e-mail with a link to the now-infamous youtube clip of the 13th Street substation. That was the first time he saw the flash. Technically, the plant hadn't blown up. It was what they call an arc, kind of like the spark you sometimes get when you plug something into an outlet, except much more powerful. Arcs happen. But the flashes are only supposed to last fractions of a second before breakers divert the current away from the problem. The flash Miksad saw in the video went on for 30 seconds, and it seemed to come in waves. He watched the video again and again. "That's when I knew we had a problem," says Miksad. "And it was a very, very big one."
I’ve lived here since 1998, between 1st and A on 9th street.I’m from the Bronx and then I moved to the Upper East Side for five years. The Upper East Side was boring, so I came here.
Mostly when I’m out walking around it’s because I have a dog. As soon as I got a dog I learned a lot more about the neighborhood and met a lot more people. Sometimes I work at Puppy Love, Kitty Cat. I’ve got a Jack Russell terrier, who was made for killing rats. It’s a problem, because our block is filled with them. She’s killed a couple. At night, when we go for a walk, I have to pick her up and bring her a couple blocks away or she’ll kill more.
My husband and I are both musicians. He plays the piano. We have a baby grand piano in an under 700-square-foot apartment. I’m a singer and songwriter and I teach. I’m on my way to teach right now on the Upper East. I’ve played around the neighborhood. These days, I tend to play at Rockwood Music Hall. I do a kind of storytelling pop. I wrote a song called "Alphabet City" about the neighborhood:
Walking my dog down Avenue A
NYC on the first spring day
Everybody in their shorts and their shades
Tompkins Square Park on their rollerblades
Iced coffee to go from Pick Me Up Cafe
Walking my dog down Avenue A.
ABC ALPHABET CITY
ABC ALPHABET CITY
You're good to me,
ALPHABET CITY
ABC ALPHABET CITY
OH, ALPHABET CITY
Avenue B watching my laundry go 'round
Near the M9 bus stop to Chinatown
Horseshoe Bar, Lakeside Lounge
Saturday night bridge and tunnel crowd
Lucky me, I can just stay in
Or Avenue B and watch my laundry spin.
(Chorus)
Got a place in my heart for Avenue C
Where the C-note open mic used to be
Friday nights playing my guitar
Singing my songs for Ira at the bar
He'd give me a wink like I was a star
Avenue C, you got a place in my heart.
(Chorus)
In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, like all downtown restaurants, we sustained heavy losses due to spoiled inventory and loss of business, and are working with our insurance carriers to see how much we can recover.
In the meantime we have decided to carry a full payroll for our staff for the week that we were forced to shutdown, but in order to do this we need your help.
If you intend to eat at S'MAC at any time in the next year, we ask that you consider putting that amount on a S'MAC gift card and use that card when you come in to eat in the future.
Please consider using S'MAC gift cards to fulfill a part of your Holiday gift-giving this year. And please buy that gift card now rather than wait until later in the year.
Either of these ideas will allow us to collect cash, that you had intended to spend at S'MAC, up front and use it for employee payroll now.
To purchase a S'MAC gift card, please go here.
S'MAC, which first opened in 2006, has three locations — East 12th Street, East 33rd Street and a small kiosk on First Avenue and 1st Street — that were not damaged in the storm but were all forced to close. The East Village and Murray Hill locations were shut for eight days and the kiosk for 11 days.
S'MAC also decided to pay workers for the time the restaurants were closed during the hurricane.
However, now the bills have started arriving and rent on the shops is overdue by more than 10 days, she said.
St. Mark's Bookshop is 35 years old today! Long live books & book lovers!
— St. Mark's Bookshop (@stmarksbookshop) November 13, 2012
With the threat of a super-size 7-Eleven at the south corner at 500 E 11, the loss of our community's wonderful flea market and its impending replacement with a huge luxury residential complex along Avenue A, residents on 11th Street have organized to let their voice be heard. If we can't stop these developments, we can still make a difference to prevent the worst. Join us!!
Block Association Meeting
Wednesday, November 14, 7 pm
@ Father's Heart Ministries
545 E 11th St
Anyone living on 11th Street is a member of the 11th Street A-B-C Block Association.
So come and be heard.
