"I wish they'd keep their doors closed. I can hear the barkeep dropping nickels into the soup bowl from a block away."
"Don't we already have enough establishments around here in which to drink ale and eat raw onions?"
"Oh great, another place catering to the tanners, bricklayers and slaughter-house butchers."
"I give it 6 months."
"There goes the neighborhood."
As temps. drop to extreme lows this weekend, encourage anyone you see on the streets to seek safe, warm shelter! pic.twitter.com/TOe9MUnz5n
— The Bowery Mission (@BoweryMission) February 12, 2016
Sometimes it's hard to know how to help. But when you hand a resource card to a homeless neighbor, you show that you care and want that person to have second chance at life.
Print out these resource cards to give away to the homeless you encounter on the streets. Invite them to come to The Bowery Mission to get help. Click here to open a pdf file with four resource cards to print.
Some of those tenants, now scattered across the city and country, were encouraged by the thought of their former landlord in handcuffs.
But many also rued the years spent while, they say, Ms. Hrynenko harassed them in her greedy pursuit of higher rents. Prosecutors cited her greed as the driving force behind the explosion.
“I was actually shocked charges were brought at all, and that it happened so quickly,” said Kim-Nora Moses, a tenant who said she had studied building codes and needled inspectors for years about the exhaust system. “But I always felt like she won, because she blew the place up. She said a lot of mean and hurtful things to people; it was clear she wanted to get rid of anyone with a rent-regulated apartment.”
BLOODWRESTLING: Valentine's Eve Mas-Sicker with GLOB!
Celebrate and skewer VD Day with GLOB! Live lady warriors, (and lads!) with ridiculous vendettas, who wrestle in fake blood to punk rock! Sports satire, gore galore, mucha lucha gone mas sicker! A show for all of you Heartbreakers & Hellions, in a fantastic, underground L.E.S. theater and performance space w/Full Bar and Art Lounge.
Doors at 9:30 pm, Showtime 10 pm With live music from: DOLPHINS DON'T LOVE and LEA aka ESCAPE ARTIST. Late night Happy Hour after the show.
COW Theater
21 Clinton St. (btwn Stanton & Houston)
$10 (Cash only or use free Square Cash app.)
Sat. 2/13, Door Opens: 9:30 pm
Find more details at the Facebook events page here
This morning’s fire in the rear of 105 Avenue B was apparently started when a lit cigarette was dropped from a window into the trash and igniting it. The basement access was locked and no super was present, so firefighters used the ladder to scale to the roof and down the rear of the building to the fire.
The fire was severe enough that it melted the main TWC feed for that section of the block. Residents of several adjacent buildings will be without Internet, TV or phone until TWC can address the problem.
Mayor Bill de Blasio and Department of Buildings Commissioner Rick Chandler today announced that they will quadruple the penalties for serious construction-safety lapses, conduct a wave of more than 1,500 enforcement sweeps, and require new supervision at construction sites citywide to protect workers and the public amid the record building boom.
To make sure builders cannot profit by skirting safety rules, the City is raising the penalties for serious safety lapses from $2,400 to $10,000, and the penalty for lacking a construction superintendent will increase from $5,000 to a maximum of $25,000. Construction has surged more than 300 percent since 2009, contributing more jobs and more housing to New York City, but leading to an increase in preventable construction-related injuries and fatalities.
They also have more details about the worker who died here.
The worker, 33-year-old Luis Alberto Pomboza, was working on the renovation of 356 East 8th St. when he fell from the third to first floor, according to records from the Department of Buildings.
Pomboza — an undocumented Ecuadorian immigrant and father of five — was transported to Bellevue Hospital in serious condition with trauma to the head and face but later died of his injuries, according to the NYPD and Medical Examiner’s Office.
