Nabe News: February 26
Commodore 64, tipping technique, and subway death, all in today’s neighborhood news roundup!
Happy birthday, Johnny Cash. You were one badass motherfucker! The Man in Black would have turned 78 today.
David Sax, via Cityroom, revisits the oft-debated subject of tipping waiters/waitresses [Cityroom]
An update on the saga of Donald Baumgartner [EV Grieve]
The New York City Rent Guidelines Board has a new chair. Bloomberg recently appointed Jonathan Kimmel [Real Deal]
In the past two weeks, eight people have reportedly been hit by subway trains. That’s usually the monthly average [Gothamist]
Remembering “Save New York,” a video game made for the Commodore 64 back in 1983. Product description – “as grotesque aliens attack the Big Apple by air, others hatch their destructive eggs in the subway tunnels. You will fight against incredible odds and a shrinking fuel supply, as you battle to save New York.” [This Ain’t the Summer of Love]
Some cool music ephemera [Stupefaction]
Happy second anniversary to the Washington Square Park Blog! [WSP Blog]
Recent Stories
Delivery Worker Slashed and Mugged in Ridge Street Condo
A food delivery worker on the job was slashed across the face Sunday evening while in the elevator of a luxury condo building on Ridge Street, according to police. The unidentified victim, a 29-year-old man, had been in the elevator of 78 Ridge Street (Ridge Street Residences nee River Ridge Condo) when he was approached by […]
Under Community Pressure, City Moves to Renovate Rivington Playground
As Sara D. Roosevelt Park continues its steady descent, area stakeholders are pushing to rehabilitate a key playground in the northern section of the park to stave off the danger element. The Rivington Street Playground, situated across from the M’finda Kalunga Garden, is next on the docket for a refresh, much in the same way […]
‘Belse’ Erases Paulaner from the Bowery Ahead of New Vegan Brewery
A vegan brewery and restaurant is poised to open on the Bowery, taking the place of the failed, and since fallow, Paulaner Brauhaus. Indeed, as previously reported, Dallas-based Belse is on board to take over 265-267 Bowery. The relative newcomer – which began life last February – will go even bigger with this larger Lower […]
Moscot Moves HQ from the Corner to New Orchard Street Store
Moscot is no longer on the corner, leaving behind Orchard and Delancey for a spot just paces to the south. And for the first time in its history, no rent to pay. As first reported by Bowery Boogie earlier this year, the centenary opticians chose the mid-block space at 94 Orchard as new base of […]
Mark Miller Reopens Orchard Street Gallery This Week with Street Artist Hektad
The Mark Miller Gallery returns to Orchard Street this week, and is enlisting the help of an established graffiti writer to help relaunch. The longtime Lower East Side showroom will reopen on Wednesday – after a two-year pandemic hiatus – with an exhibit featuring Hektad. “Looking at the graffiti art of Hektad is like finding […]
