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September 2, 2010
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(via DNAinfo)

h/t Grieve

Reposting full release from Patrick Heldlund for DNAinfo:

EAST VILLAGE — Police released video of two men wanted in connection with a fatal shooting that occurred outside a club on a busy stretch of Second Avenue.

The victim, Devin Thompson, 37, of Kips Bay, was shot twice at the corner of East Fifth Street about 4 a.m. on Sun., Aug. 22, police said.

The man remained in critical condition at Bellevue hospital until dying from his wounds on Monday, NYPD sources said.

The incident occurred near the popular nightclub Sin Sin/Leopard Lounge, a location that police have been called to three times over the past year following reports of drug use and prostitution, sources said.

The victim and two suspects had been inside the club before the shooting occurred, but it is unknown whether the men knew each another prior to the incident, police added.

Anyone with information about the attack or the suspect is asked to call CrimeStoppers at 800-577-TIPS or text tips to CRIMES and enter TIP577.

Click to watch surveillance video showing the two suspects below (YouTube link):

Sin Sin has been no stranger to trouble as of late (and with a name like that, who’da thunk it?).

Neighborhood residents have made their voices heard, though you might forgive them for thinking that their complaints have fallen on deaf ears. (Read some of the comments on this petition to oppose Sin Sin’s Liquor License Transfer back in July). The club still clearly has some issues to deal with regarding its patrons’ behavior outside its doors.

Want to get an idea what it’s like to share a block with one of the area’s most “notoriously bad neighbors?” One enterprising individual, after being woken up at 3:30 in the morning by revelers outside his window, took it upon himself to record the raucous for posterity. View below (YouTube link): 

Visit this YouTube user channel for a second video, as well.

A nearby resident had this to say in the video’s comments section:

Thank you for recording this—-and where are the police? We live down the block on Fifth Street and can’t sleep at night because of the screaming and carrying on (and do I need to add that we have to go to work in the morning?). We call the police but no one shows up to follow up on our complaints.

And you know what’s really a “disgrace” about that clip? The stickers on the mailbox!

I kid, you guys.

Seriously, this has gotten out of hand.

First off, if you have any information regarding the shooting, please call CrimeStoppers at 800-577-TIPS.

If you have any other information or complaints about Sin Sin/Leopard Lounge, reach out to Stuart Zamsky, president of the East Fifth Street Block Association at east5thstreetba@mail.com

In the event of another such incident here or anywhere else in the neighborhood, please call the NYPD 9th Precinct (conveniently located right down the street):

Contact Information
   
Precinct: (212) 477-7811
Community Affairs: (212) 477-7805
Crime Prevention: (212) 477-7835
Domestic Violence: (212) 477-7839
Youth Officer: (212) 477-2417
Auxiliary Coordinator: (212) 477-2681
Detective Squad: (212) 477-7817

or Manhattan Community Board 3:

59 East 4th Street, New York, NY, 10003
Phone: 212-533-5300
Fax: 212-533-3659
E-Mail: info@cb3manhattan.org

What to do? Start turning people away beforehand if they appear too intoxicated? Ban immediately anyone involved in an altercation inside? More bouncers (They have 4-5 on duty during busy weekend nights)?

Anyone have a Sin Sin-related story? Another establishment? How did you deal with it? Any tales of successfully approaching and dealing with bars or other establishments that have been troublesome in the past, but have now addressed the problems?

No one wants to be a downer, but should there not be a level of decency and respect from all neighborhood tenants? Those that are continuously egregious or show utter disregard for others, please prepare to shape up or be called out.

Lastly, take a moment out of your day for the victim, Devin Thompson.

Previous Sin Sin coverage from E.V. Grieve


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noraleah:

I skipped the food-photos (yes, I DO skip food-photos) but a few weeks ago we ate at Vandaag, a new Dutch restaurant on 2nd Ave., and it was terrific. I recommend sitting at the bar: inspired genever and aquavit cocktails served by 6-foot-three Dutchmen. Proost!
PS: The interior is as good-looking as the barkeep.

noraleah:

I skipped the food-photos (yes, I DO skip food-photos) but a few weeks ago we ate at Vandaag, a new Dutch restaurant on 2nd Ave., and it was terrific. I recommend sitting at the bar: inspired genever and aquavit cocktails served by 6-foot-three Dutchmen. Proost!

PS: The interior is as good-looking as the barkeep.


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thecorcorangrouptips:

Sit in the first 4 rows and they give you a poncho so you don’t get water, paint or goop on your clothes. Great fun and interactive show.

See the Blue Man Group at The Astor Place Theatre:

434 Lafayette St, New York NY, 10003 (on Lafayette St between East 4th St and Astor Place)


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fromnewyorkwithlove:

NY’s hot. © a… 2010
Today’s “from New York with love” comes with a heaping side of extra lovin’.
Our windows overlook the roof of the building next door. This was the view a little after midnight.
It has been a very hot summer, and yesterday got near the records temperature-wise. I am thinking maybe they don’t have air conditioning in their apartment?
Did I feel bad about snaping pics while they did it on the rooftop? Hells no. I did what any responsible photographer would have done. I reached for the zoom lens. Got bored after a while. Didn’t even stay for the whole show. 
We are not lacking for mosquitoes around here. I wonder how that went.

fromnewyorkwithlove:

NY’s hot. © a… 2010

Today’s “from New York with love” comes with a heaping side of extra lovin’.

Our windows overlook the roof of the building next door. This was the view a little after midnight.

It has been a very hot summer, and yesterday got near the records temperature-wise. I am thinking maybe they don’t have air conditioning in their apartment?

Did I feel bad about snaping pics while they did it on the rooftop? Hells no. I did what any responsible photographer would have done. I reached for the zoom lens. Got bored after a while. Didn’t even stay for the whole show. 

We are not lacking for mosquitoes around here. I wonder how that went.


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Grafitti Art
Photo By Melanie Neichin
East Village Corner
http://melaniemusings2.wordpress.com

Grafitti Art

Photo By Melanie Neichin

East Village Corner

http://melaniemusings2.wordpress.com


September 1, 2010
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NY1: Principal Spends His 40th Birthday Camped Out On the Sidewalk To Help Raise Awareness and Funds For His School

Mark Federman has spent the last nine days camping outside the East Side Community High School, hoping to win enough votes on Facebook to be one of the 20 winners of the Kohl’s Cares $10 million give away.

Menschy cat.

What did you do on your birthday?

You can vote for East Side up to five times here.

Voting ends Friday.

C’mon, New York.

Thanks in advance.

Previously


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More markets than ever accept EBT (Food Stamps) and Credit Cards!  At these Greenmarket locations customers can swipe their EBT or Credit Card at the Greenmarket Info Table in exchange for market tokens, then shop at the farmers stands with the tokens.

Union Square, Broadway at 17th Street, Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays & Saturdays, 8-6 PM, Year Round

Other Greenmarket locations in the neighborhood accepting EBT:

Tompkins Square, Ave A and 7th Street, Sundays

Saint Mark’s Church, 10th Street and 2nd Avenue, Tuesdays

Full list of Greenmarket locations here. (Those accepting EBT here).


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You’re doing it right.
Scenes from the 1st Avenue Floating Parking Lane.
Saw the driver coming out of a building nearby and asked him how he has found dealing with the new traffic pattern so far.
He was new to this route, but, frankly, he said, “Look, I’ve got to make deliveries, ya know?” UPS doesn’t have a policy one way or another about eating parking tickets. He obviously tries to accommodate the other drivers, riders, and pedestrians, but a) has to deliver on time, and b) has to be conscious of his own safety on the occasion that he can’t pull up right to where he has to make deliveries, i.e. carrying or carting parcels across traffic, Frogger-style.
When the lanes were first introduced (and I imagine some consideration went into this beforehand), Caroline Samponaro, director of bicycle advocacy for Transportation Alternatives, said in an interview with The Villager that she “took the complaints from businesses as part of the process of change for the better.”

“These aren’t insurmountable challenges,” she said. “Sure, there are adjustments to be made, but in terms of getting business done, the city has a track record of working with businesses.” The system for truck deliveries might have to change, but according to Samponaro the inconvenience will be worth the improvement to the city. “Everyone’s adjusting when a street changes, but that doesn’t mean that the change is bad,” she said.

Was this just Pelosi-style “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it” lip service? Surely, “Things might have to change” is too vague to be actual policy. Has there been any follow-up study or brainstorming on solutions in the legislature? Police officers are already enforcing penalties. UPS can likely afford to digest a few extra tickets as the cost of doing business, but what about the smaller guys? Was there really not some consideration taken into how to deal with delivery trucks parking in or around the bike and/or bus lanes? No “five-minute” rule for trucks parking in the striped areas? 
On that last point, local livable streets activist, Chris O’Leary, says “Let them park there,” suggesting that, for the likes of UPS at least, this is the best case scenario.
As long as they don’t, say, block a fire hydrant, what do you think, Neighborhood?
We’ve all got to share the road? There will have to be extenuating circumstances and exceptions to every rule? Cuff ‘em?
Feel free to reach out to Transportation Alternatives for their thoughts on the subject:

Transportation Alternatives127 West 26th Street, Suite 1002New York, NY 10001Phone: 212-629-8080
On the web
On Facebook
On Twitter

Turn and face the strain…

You’re doing it right.

Scenes from the 1st Avenue Floating Parking Lane.

Saw the driver coming out of a building nearby and asked him how he has found dealing with the new traffic pattern so far.

He was new to this route, but, frankly, he said, “Look, I’ve got to make deliveries, ya know?” UPS doesn’t have a policy one way or another about eating parking tickets. He obviously tries to accommodate the other drivers, riders, and pedestrians, but a) has to deliver on time, and b) has to be conscious of his own safety on the occasion that he can’t pull up right to where he has to make deliveries, i.e. carrying or carting parcels across traffic, Frogger-style.

When the lanes were first introduced (and I imagine some consideration went into this beforehand), Caroline Samponaro, director of bicycle advocacy for Transportation Alternatives, said in an interview with The Villager that she “took the complaints from businesses as part of the process of change for the better.”

“These aren’t insurmountable challenges,” she said. “Sure, there are adjustments to be made, but in terms of getting business done, the city has a track record of working with businesses.” The system for truck deliveries might have to change, but according to Samponaro the inconvenience will be worth the improvement to the city. “Everyone’s adjusting when a street changes, but that doesn’t mean that the change is bad,” she said.

Was this just Pelosi-style “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it” lip service? Surely, “Things might have to change” is too vague to be actual policy. Has there been any follow-up study or brainstorming on solutions in the legislature? Police officers are already enforcing penalties. UPS can likely afford to digest a few extra tickets as the cost of doing business, but what about the smaller guys? Was there really not some consideration taken into how to deal with delivery trucks parking in or around the bike and/or bus lanes? No “five-minute” rule for trucks parking in the striped areas? 

On that last point, local livable streets activist, Chris O’Leary, says “Let them park there,” suggesting that, for the likes of UPS at least, this is the best case scenario.

As long as they don’t, say, block a fire hydrant, what do you think, Neighborhood?

We’ve all got to share the road? There will have to be extenuating circumstances and exceptions to every rule? Cuff ‘em?

Feel free to reach out to Transportation Alternatives for their thoughts on the subject:

Transportation Alternatives
127 West 26th Street, Suite 1002
New York, NY 10001
Phone: 212-629-8080

On the web

On Facebook

On Twitter

Turn and face the strain…


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You’re doing it wrong.

Scenes from the 1st Avenue Bike Lane.

You’re doing it wrong.

Scenes from the 1st Avenue Bike Lane.


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esquared:

Vase  Bearers in TSP 
From Bob Arihood’s new blog — Nadie Se Canoce.

esquared:

Vase Bearers in TSP

From Bob Arihood’s new blog — Nadie Se Canoce.