Police Blotter, Week of March 3, 2016
7th Ave. So. stabbing On Sat., Feb. 27, around 2:50 a.m., a 30-year-old woman told police she had a verbal confrontation with an unidentified woman and three men in front of 110 Seventh Ave. South,...
View ArticleThomas Mullen, 63, founder of corporate consulting firm
BY ALBERT AMATEAU | Thomas P. Mullen, formerly a faculty member of the New York University Stern School of Business, died Feb. 1 at his home in Greenwich Village. He was 63. He founded the Park Li...
View Article‘Where’s your ticket?’ A prison of pastrami
BY BETH KAISERMAN | Everything was planned out perfectly. My co-worker Rachel and I would eat a feast at Katz’s, down a couple beers and then head to my last day of work before I moved Upstate for a...
View ArticleFocusing backward into the future at Lomography
BY BOB KRASNER | Consider this: In 2015, the best-selling item in Amazon’s camera department was — suspend your disbelief for a moment — film. O.K., it was Fuji’s instant film, but it’s still an analog...
View ArticleWhy pay for Wi-Fi with new street hot spots? locals say
BY COLIN MIXSON | The city’s free wireless Internet hot spots recently installed along Third Ave. are helping some East Village businesses cope with their sometimes-tenuous Internet connections. One...
View ArticleSt. Mark’s Bookshop sadly turns the final page
BY TEQUILA MINSKY | The community had been forewarned of the imminent closing of St. Mark’s Bookshop, whose sales were down and debts high. For a few weeks, a bold sign, stating, “Clearance Sale — 50%...
View ArticleA bridge beach too far? E.D.C. throws sand on novel Blueway plan
BY COLIN MIXSON | Locals are pushing back against a city agency they say is trying to shut the public out of Downtown’s only beach to reserve it for private developers. A recent feasibility study on...
View ArticleNew Extell building is wrecking the hood, in many ways: Locals
BY YANNIC RACK | Lower East Siders gathered near the Manhattan Bridge on South St. once again this week to protest against the 80-story apartment tower — dubbed the “Building from Hell” — that is...
View ArticleCity goes for the fences to increase parks access
BY ALBERT AMATEAU | A new design concept, Parks Without Borders, intended to improve access to city parks and better integrate them into their neighborhoods, could bring changes to public spaces in...
View ArticleLookin’ for love on the Hillary trail
BY SARAH FERGUSON | Maybe the flickering image of an Amex gold card projected onto the Jacob Javits Center’s glass walls should have warned me that even when Hillary tries to go populist, she does so...
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