P.S. 150 Parents React to DOE’s Plan to Relocate School to Chelsea

Written by NYPress on May 1, 2013. Posted in News OTDT, Our Town Downtown, Uncategorized

P.S. 150 Principal Jenny Bonnet sent a letter to parents informing them their children’s school would be moving from its Tribeca location to Chelsea after one more year in its current spot. Bonnet said the Department of Education and the school would work together to make this transition as smooth as possible, including using school
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Hide & Seek with Cab Fare

Written by Joanna Fantozzi on April 16, 2013. Posted in Crime Watch our town, Our Town, Uncategorized

A 48-year-old male taxi driver said that he dropped off a young, female Russian passenger on East 83rd Street on the evening of April 1st. The suspect then refused to pay the fare, and fled into her building. The taxi driver snapped a photo of the suspect and handed it over to the building’s superintendent
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Loot of the World

Written by NYPress on March 22, 2013. Posted in Arts our town, Arts our town downtown, Arts west side spirit, Our Town, Our Town Downtown, Uncategorized, West Side Spirit

Fate of Detroit’s premier art museum serves warning to the nation By Emma Lockridge The collective spirit of financially beleaguered Detroiters mirrors a declaration from Celie in The Color Purple: “I’m poor, black, my situation is ugly, but God, I’m still here.” While the people stay put in Motown, will the city’s art museum survive
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Haggling Gets Out of Hand

Written by Joanna Fantozzi on March 15, 2013. Posted in Crime Watch our town, Our Town, Uncategorized

On March 1st, an employee at a grocery store on First Avenue said that a woman entered the store and began haggling over the price of a cigar. The perpetrator yelled at the defendant and jumped over the counter. She then grabbed the employee, a 48-year-old man from Queens, and forced him to open the
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Made-Up Make-Up Seller Arrested

Written by Joanna Fantozzi on March 15, 2013. Posted in Crime Watch our town, Our Town, Uncategorized

New Yorkers are used to seeing vendors hawking their wares from street tables, but most don’t pay enough attention to the legality of the products. Last week on March 2nd at 5:30 p.m., one intrepid observer, however, a 53-year-old man, noticed something off on a vendor’s table on East 86th Street. The perp was selling
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Mirrors Stolen From Parked Car

Written by Joanna Fantozzi on March 15, 2013. Posted in Crime Watch our town, Our Town, Uncategorized

Last week, on March 1st, a 39-year-old man visiting the city from New Jersey parked his BMW on East 89th Street. When he returned in the evening, he discovered that someone had removed both of his car’s sideview mirrors. Police on the Upper East Side have noted a similar criminal pattern in recent months. Police
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Hudson Square Rezoning Vote Delayed

Written by NYPress on March 15, 2013. Posted in News OTDT, Our Town Downtown, Uncategorized

The City Council debated the measure but held off on the vote By Sophia Rosenbaum The postponement of last Wednesday’s land use and zoning meeting provides the committees with only one more chance to vote on the controversial Hudson Square rezoning package – March 13 at 9:30 a.m. The committees were supposed to vote on
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Father Witt, S.J., Revamps the Upper East Side

Written by NYPress on March 7, 2013. Posted in OTTY Awards, Our Town, Uncategorized

By Vanesa Vennard Before Father George Witt, S.J. was prepping for his services at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, he was teaching English and religious education at Saint Agnes Boys High School for 10 years. Though Witt says there is certainly teaching involved with ministry, the church offers a broader and more inclusive subject
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Shifting Attitudes Toward E. 91st St. MTS

Written by Joanna Fantozzi on March 7, 2013. Posted in News Our Town, Our Town, Uncategorized

Some mayoral hopefuls change their tune on waste station proposal, appealing to Upper East Side voters Upper East Side residents have proved that they are willing to vote single issue in the upcoming mayoral race to stop the Marine Transfer Waste Station from being built in Yorkville, amidst low-income housing and the Asphalt Green Recreation
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Now Take Them Out, Devils: Beck Wrangles Over 160 Musicians for Maximalist Bowie Cover

Written by Simon Lazarus Vasta on February 21, 2013. Posted in Music, Uncategorized

Since the release of 2008′s astoundingly mediocre Modern Guilt, Beck has all but stepped away from conventional rockstardom. He’s spent the past few years on idiosyncratic projects like the Record Club, a collaboration with such luminaries as Annie Clark, Angus Andrews, Devendra Banhart, Thurston Moore, Jeff Tweedy, and, uh, Giovanni Ribisi. Beck assembled these Superfriends of
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