CBGB Holdings LLC, which two years ago purchased the name and copyrights associated with Manhattan’s legendary punk-rock club CBGB, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Friday.
The company, reported assets and debts each in the range of $1 million to $10 million in its bankruptcy petition, filed with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan.
CBGB Holdings’ founding partners, James Blueweiss and Robert Williams, as well as the company’s bankruptcy attorney, weren’t immediately available for comment. The company didn’t say in court papers why it filed for bankruptcy protection.
This week, an alteration in New York City transit signs to address forthcoming route changes have placed an unfortunate Internet acronym on a heavily trafficked subway station: Displays that list the color-coded subway services running at the 14th Street-6th Avenue underground station now display a bold "FML."
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, or MTA, may or may not have been aware that this is an acronym for "f*** my life," a profane exclamation of disgruntlement that arose in Web forums, in text messages, and on a popular blog several years ago.
I lost a ring in the East Village yesterday, probably on Second or Third Street, walking from Avenue B to LaGuardia Place in the West Village. I lost it between 5 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. It's a gold band in a distinctive chain pattern, and I'm offering a generous reward upon return...
Last year, neighbor activist/photographer John Penley donated his extensive photo collection to the NYU Tamiment Library.... And now, the library has posted an online exhibit of his work from Tamiment's John Penley Photographs Collection ... such as the one above from 1994... a police assault vehicle evicting squatters on East 13th Street....
Cops busted a bone-headed East Village apartment robber after a passport stolen from his victim fell from his bag, authorities said.
A cop in plainclothes witnessed Mark Perlov go into an apartment building on East 6th Street near Second Avenue Tuesday just after midnight, cops said. Perlov allegedly began knocking on apartment doors, then finally picked a lock. Fifteen minutes later, the suspected prowler walked out of the building with a purple laundry bag, and the cop saw a passport fall from the sack, sources said. Inside the bag, police found an e-book reader, a digital camera and a laptop computer belonging to the victim whose apartment Perlov had pilfered, cops said.
He was charged with burglary and possession of burglary tools, said a spokesman for DA Cyrus Vance Jr.
