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The @nyknicks win again at the 36th annual Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade today. 📷 @Joy_of_photos
After Bonnie Slotnick’s arrest outside the Harry Styles pop-up in the East Village, @Joy_of_photos talked with other 2nd Street business owners about the crowds, blocked storefronts and impact on business. bit.ly/4jhvMrt
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Updated this morning, we spoke with Bonnie Slotnick about her experiences with the Harry Styles merch pop-up and her arrest after an altercation with line-management security
ICYMI: A confrontation outside the Harry Styles pop-up on 2nd Street ended w/ East Village bookseller Bonnie Slotnick, 72, arrested & spending 12 hours in custody. She tells @Joy_of_photos what happened & about the friction on the block leading up to it. bit.ly/3TGH3Y3
ICYMI: A confrontation outside the Harry Styles pop-up on 2nd Street ended w/ East Village bookseller Bonnie Slotnick, 72, arrested & spending 12 hours in custody. She tells @Joy_of_photos what happened & about the friction on the block leading up to it. bit.ly/3TGH3Y3
East Village bookseller Bonnie Slotnick, 72, spent 12 hours in custody after an altercation with the line-security team outside the Harry Styles pop-up on 2nd St. In an interview with @Joy_of_photos, she explains what happened — and what led up to it. bit.ly/3TGH3Y3
The colorful building at 4th & B is back in full bloom. Landlord Tony Echeverri used more than 300 gallons of paint — including Mayan Gold Aqua Leaf, Spring Lilac and Charmed Violet — to give the longtime East Village standout its latest look. Pics @Joy_of_photos
A nearly 6-story-tall mural of Jean-Michel Basquiat is taking shape on the SW corner of the Bowery at Great Jones. The work, now in the outline phase, is by New Zealand-based street artist Owen Dippie. Basquiat lived two buildings west at 57 Great Jones St. when he died in 1988.
A Citi Bike pursuit ended in a noonday fistfight Wednesday in the middle of Avenue A at 13th Street, where one man accused the other — who got the worst of the ensuing fight — of pushing kids in Tompkins Square Park. Clip by Ali Royals. #EastVillage
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Kips Bay update; We have confirmed that NYU Langone now owns the site at 570 Second Avenue in Kips Bay and has for about a year.
Along with my partners in government, I have written to NYU Langone requesting a dialogue with our offices and the community.
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If you’re anything like me, you have been to this Kips Bay movie theater many times.
If you’re also deeply disappointed with the news that this theater may be closing, sign the petition so we can keep our beloved theater right here in our community.
change.org/p/save-the-amc-ki…
As Tal Roded wrote for @StreetsblogNYC last month, Clinton St. is a prime candidate for a Low Traffic Neighborhood. bit.ly/4cEd5tR
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At approximately 2:15 a.m. Tuesday, the FDNY responded to reports of a fire involving a four-car MTA work train at the Astor Place subway station in Manhattan.
Upon arrival, firefighters encountered heavy smoke at both street and station level from the fully involved vacuum train operating below ground.
"Units immediately began to deploy handlines to knock down the fire, supply the train's onboard sprinkler system, and conduct primary and secondary searches," Assistant Chief Thomas Currao said.
Firefighters simultaneously evacuated a northbound passenger train that entered the station during the incident while searching both trains and working to extinguish a stubborn fire within one of the vacuum train's filter compartments.
Twelve people were injured, including five firefighters and seven civilians. FDNY members worked alongside MTA personnel, MTA Police and NYC Emergency Management to safely extinguish the fire, remove the train from the tunnel and restore service. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
