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Parks Kick Off Paths to Pier 42

Written by NYPress on May 8, 2013. Posted in News OTDT, Our Town Downtown

On Sunday, State Senator Daniel Squadron, Manhattan Borough Parks Commissioner William Castro, the Lower East Side Waterfront Alliance, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and Community Board 3 opened part of the new waterfront park at Pier 42 on the Lower East Side for interim recreational use with a Waterfront Community Day and the launch of
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Chin Launches Re-Election

Written by NYPress on May 8, 2013. Posted in News OTDT, Our Town Downtown

On Sunday, City Council Member Margaret Chin officially kicked off her campaign for re-election for the 1st council district, which covers parts of Lower Manhattan including Chinatown, the Financial District, Tribeca, Little Italy and the Lower East Side. She was joined at the kick-off rally, held on the Independence Plaza North steps in TriBeCa, by
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Texting Terror

Written by NYPress on May 8, 2013. Posted in Crime Watch OTDT, Our Town Downtown

By Jerry Danzig In the evening of Tuesday, April 16, a 21-year-old woman was walking along William Street texting on her iPhone, when a man ran up from behind and tried to snatch the phone from her hands. He failed in his attempt, screamed out an expletive, and fled northbound on William Street. Police conducted
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Luckless Law Student

Written by NYPress on May 8, 2013. Posted in Crime Watch OTDT, Our Town Downtown

By Jerry Danzig A 25-year-old man was hanging out with his friends in a dark and crowded tavern on West Broadway in the evening of Thursday, April 11. He placed his bag at the end of their table. When he left the bar at 9 p.m., he realized that his bag was no longer where
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Suzuki Snatch

Written by NYPress on May 8, 2013. Posted in Crime Watch OTDT, Our Town Downtown

By Jerry Danzig At 8:30 the morning of Wednesday, April 10, a 48-year-old man parked his girlfriend’s motorbike on the southwest corner of South End Ave. and Albany Street. The bike was still there when he went out at 12:30 in the afternoon, but when he returned at 3 p.m., he found the bike was
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Denim Demon

Written by NYPress on May 8, 2013. Posted in Crime Watch OTDT, Our Town Downtown

BY Jerry Danzig In the afternoon of Tuesday, April 9, a 28-year-old man working at a department store on Spring Street noticed that two of the store’s bags were missing from a display. He checked the store’s video surveillance footage, which revealed that an unknown 25-year-old man had taken the two bags without paying for
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Handbag Heist

Written by NYPress on May 8, 2013. Posted in Crime Watch OTDT, Our Town Downtown

By Jerry Danzig Around noon on Tuesday, April 9, a 27-year-old woman working at a boutique on Greene Street reported that a man had walked into the store, grabbed a beige handbag worth $2,995 from a display, and left the store without paying for the bag. The thief fled in an unknown direction. Police conducted
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Bait and Ditch

Written by NYPress on May 8, 2013. Posted in Crime Watch OTDT, Our Town Downtown

Late in the afternoon of Tuesday, April 9, a 28-year-old man was approached on lower Broadway by a man in his 60s who offered to sell him a computer. The younger man agreed to buy the computer and had $340 cash in his hand, when the older man snatched the money and fled to an
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House of Cupcakes Finds a Home in West Village

Written by NYPress on May 8, 2013. Posted in News OTDT, Our Town Downtown

The newest outpost serving the popular dessert comes prepared with a surefire recipe for success By Helaina Hovitz You’ve got to have a pretty big pair of cake pops to open a cupcake shop just blocks from Magnolia Bakery. Fortunately, the House of Cupcakes, which just opened at 101 7th Ave South, came prepared. Aside
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Matt Gross Shares 30 Years of Travel

Written by NYPress on May 8, 2013. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, News OTDT, News Our Town, Our Town, Our Town Downtown, West Side Spirit

Former New York Times columnist settles down to write a travel memoir By Angela Barbuti You know you’re a frugal traveler if you’ve eaten fried spiders in Cambodia, slept in a Roman convent, and booked a flight with Ryan Air. Matt Gross has done all of the above while penning the Frugal Traveler column for
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