Spotted in Tompkins Square Park.
Perhaps we'll see one of these soon...
FDNYalerts MAN ALL HANDS 218 E 9 ST, MIXED OCCUPANCY FIRE ON THE 2ND FLR,
— FDNYalerts (@FDNYAlerts) April 21, 2018
| @evgrieve Explosion on 9th Street. pic.twitter.com/7StJbgAidr
— Liberation Iannillo (@thevulgarera) April 21, 2018
Around 3:30 pm there was a loud explosion outside that sounded like a violent car crash. The FDNY arrived almost instantly and shut down the street. The fire appears to be in 218 East 9th, the building with Yakiniku West. It's been 25 minutes since the fire started and it's still going strong. More FDNY are pulling up now.
Yakiniku West restaurant on the first floor and three apartments above were damaged, officials said. Five adults and one child were displaced.
“They were confronted with a heavy smoke condition upon arrival on the first floor,” one fire official told CBS2’s Reena Roy. “We had 25 units operating here with 106 firefighters. There was a lot of overhauling, a lot of walls and ceilings were taken down, too. There’s a lot of damage right now.”
#FDNY members are on scene of a 2-alarm fire, 218 E 9 St. Manhattan. Currently no injuries have been reported. pic.twitter.com/1F42rUnHNz
— FDNY (@FDNY) April 21, 2018
Please join us on EARTH DAY, Sunday, April 22 as we parade and party to welcome the Spring and celebrate the opening of our community gardens!
Spring Awakening is a touch of Mardi Gras, a taste of charivari, we will be making music, making soap, making mudballs, swapping seeds and dancing around the Maypole. A joyous Let’s celebrate the season and honoring Mother Earth.
Beginning at 11:30 am we will parade from garden to garden around the neighborhood, visiting 27 gardens.
We will arrive at El Jardin del Paraiso, on E.4th St at Sunday, April 22 at 2 pm. There we will have music, dance refreshments, games, workshops and fun.
Some RSD specific titles for you tomorrow, and def making a Krispy Kreme run too.
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An assortment of used LPs for post-4/20 day as well.
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First 25 people who spend $100 or more tomorrow get a free tote bag - both stores!
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Go ahead and project all your #recordstoreday fantasies onto this video, you young dreamers you.
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Bake news: Donut Pub opening second location at 740 Broadway this fall. #donut #donutpub
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The head of the Landmarks Preservation Commission, Meenakshi Srinivasan, plans to resign, Crain's has learned https://t.co/kIqgkbE3wy pic.twitter.com/bLxVlreLGv
— Crain's New York (@CrainsNewYork) April 19, 2018
Land-use attorneys who guide clients through the landmarking process were dismayed to learn of Srinivasan's decision to leave, saying that she had been a respected arbiter of the rules with some serious policy wins.
"She is an exemplary public servant," said Mitch Korbey, chair of Herrick, Feinstein's land-use and zoning practice. "She has the courage to make the right choices and find balance between the commission's core mission of preservation and the need for occasional flexibility."
But members of the preservation community have bristled at Srinivasan's proposed changes to the commission's application rules — with some even calling for her ouster — and said that she was too lenient with developers and not focused enough on the core mission of preserving the past.
"The orientation of the landmarks commission seems to have shifted after the Bloomberg administration," said Simeon Bankoff, head of the Historic Districts Council, "becoming a little less responsive to community-driven applications and more oriented toward implementing city policy."
"Meenakshi Srinivasan is a talented, dogged public servant and a leader with know-how, and she’s proved that time and again. At the helm of the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission, she slicing through decades of regulatory red tape and modernized the commission. We congratulate her and thank her for the important reforms she instituted, and we wish her well in her future pursuits."
900 square feet of basement space included - 20 feet of frontage - 10 foot ceilings • Busy East Village Avenue • Former Subway, in vanilla box condition • Easily vented through one story setback, gas in building • ADA entrance ramp and ADA bathroom • Grease trap, HVAC and plenty of electric are all there • Taxes almost non-existant • No Key Money - Direct Deal with the landlord
Working late sprucing up the floor for RSD. We'll have some records too. And donuts
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Miss Kita the Wonder Dog of East 10th Street is ready for her day in the sun if only the sun will cooperate.
She's keeping her eyes peeled and will sound the alarm the moment she has news to report.
Meanwhile, she wishes everyone a lovely spring.
On November 18, 2017, Robert Martin Hill, a 54-year-old resident of Manhattan, overdosed in his apartment. The NYPD began investigating Mr. Hill’s death. An autopsy conducted following Mr. Hill’s death revealed that he died from a lethal dose of opioids. Four glassine bags were recovered from Mr. Hill’s pants pocket, which had the word “Gorilla” and a picture of a gorilla stamped in black ink. The residue in the glassine bags tested positive for heroin. The NYPD also obtained Mr. Hill’s cellphone.
As detailed in the Complaint, the NYPD was able to trace the last completed call that Mr. Hill made before he overdosed on November 18, 2017, to a cellphone used by Jones. The NYPD learned that Jones was the superintendent of the building where Mr. Hill resided, and that Jones continued to sell heroin near that building in the East Village.
In March 2018, the NYPD made undercover buys of heroin from Jones on two occasions. During the second undercover buy, Jones stated that he sold heroin to Mr. Hill, that he knew Mr. Hill recently died, and that he sold Mr. Hill heroin that was packaged in glassines with a gorilla stamp.
Hailed as one of the greatest alto saxophonists since Cannonball Adderley, Gary Bartz has made a name for himself in the jazz community. Performing alongside his quartet, Bartz will be in concert at the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival ...
Audiences attending the show are in for a treat, as they’ll also hear longtime gospel, blues, and jazz pianist, Amina Claudine Myers, the boundary-breaking trio The Bad Plus, and UNHEARD, a piece honoring Charlie Parker featuring musicians Immanuel Wilkins, Joel Ross, and Adam O’Farrill commissioned in association with The Joyce and George Wein Foundation under the artistic supervision of The Jazz Gallery.
The fast-casual chicken chain will close its original location in the East Village space that Chang has historically used as a concept incubator. It’s outgrown the tiny space...
The space, near and dear to Momofuku as the location that kicked off Chang’s empire, will continue to serve as an incubator — though what else the company has up its sleeves is TBD.
Using never-before-seen works, writings and photographs, director Sara Driver, who was part of the New York arts scene herself, worked closely and collaboratively with friends and other artists who emerged from that period: Jim Jarmusch, James Nares, Fab Five Freddy, Glenn O’Brien, Kenny Scharf, Lee Quinones, Patricia Field, Luc Sante and many others.
Drawing upon their memories and anecdotes, the film also uses period film footage, music and images to visually re-recreate the era, drawing a portrait of Jean-Michel and Downtown New York City — pre AIDS, President Reagan, the real estate and art booms – before anyone was motivated by money and ambition.
The public squash court is free to use, and is available for play on a first-come, first-served basis, except when the court has scheduled programming. The court is located on one of four of Hamilton Fish Park’s handball courts (the other courts remain available for handball use).
The court is for squash play only. Please bring your own equipment, and limit play to one hour. Goggles are recommended. Please do not wear open-toed shoes or flip-flops on the court.
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