Nabe News: March 21
The Manhattan street grid as we know it was introduced 200 years ago tomorrow! “Without envisioning mass transit, motor vehicles, tenements or skyscrapers (the vertical grid), they [city commissioners] mapped more crosstown streets than avenues because they figured most traffic would go between the rivers.” [NY Times via Animal NY]
Apple is no longer eying Grand Central Station [Observer]
Downtown New York’s infamous pirate – Captain Kidd. He moved from Scotland as a child in 1650, and would eventually live at 119 Pearl Street [Ephemeral NY]
Even the neighborhood bodegas are trading up. We’ve already seen it before with Stop 1 Deli, but the trend is spreading [EV Grieve; Previously]
Jeremiah on a return mission of smut in Playland Gifts souvenir shop in Times Square [Vanishing NY]
Con Edison rates are set to increase next month [Gothamist]
Why rent regulation is so important for the well-being of the neighborhood [Save the Lower East Side]
Is Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital the Arkham Asylum equivalent? [Scouting NY]
Slum Goddess on WFMU last month [Slum Goddess]
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