Kickball players, rejoice: City Councilman Stephen Levin is putting $930,000 towards fixing the constantly-flooded McCarren Park . One softball player tells DNAinfo, “It’s a nuisance, but it’s also become a part of the landscape. People ride their bikes through it, kids are dying to play in it and the parents are like, ‘Don’t go in there!’ because it’s so dirty,” and reveals she and her friends call it “Hipster Lake.” Another park visitor’s dog “sat vomiting after slurping up a fetid puddle.” [ more › ]
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It’ll Cost Nearly $1 Million To (Hopefully) Rid Williamsburg Of Notorious Puddle
This is some real Antiques Roadshow stuff here. The NY Times reports that a needlework sampler crafted by a New Jersey schoolgirl named Mary Antrim in 1807 has sold at auction for $1.07 million dollars. The piece sold at Sotheby’s in New York on Sunday, and features a farm scene on linen… it was estimated to go for a mere $120,000. So why did it go for so much more than that? [ more › ]
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$1 Million Paid For NJ Girl’s Needlework Piece
It seems not everyone took NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly’s memo about respecting freedom of the press to heart: video shot at Zuccotti Park on New Year’s Eve shows a heated confrontation between a journalist and police, after a cop threatens to confiscate the unidentified reporter’s press credentials. There is speculation that the reporter in the video is Colin Moynihan from the Times, and he did file a report from the park that night: [ more › ]
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Video: Reporter Blasts Cops For Threatening To Yank Press Pass At OWS Protest
Occupy Wall Street planned a New Year’s Eve celebration at Zuccotti Park last night, saying on its Facebook event page , “Bring a drum! Bring your instrument! Arrive at the park by 10pm. In the 2 hours before, we will reclaim our park and the area around it. At the New Year, we will raise the 99%!” And the evening ended up involving a small tent being temporarily erected, protesters tearing down the police barricades, and a confrontation with police that resulted in numerous arrests. Oh, and there was pepper spray, too—happy 2012, people! [ more › ]
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Occupy The New Year: Hundreds Clash With NYPD At Zuccotti Park On Last Day Of 2011
The best thing you can do to bring in the new year with some luck is… eat! So, since you were probably planning on eating anyway today, why not make it one of the below foods (and if you want to spend some time in the kitchen, Saveur offers up some good luck recipes for today). There are very specific foods that are believed to bring luck for the year if you eat them on January 1st, and they vary culture to culture— Epicurious notes that the six major lucky food categories across the globe are grapes, greens, fish, pork, legumes, and cakes. [ more › ]
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Wanna Get Lucky? Here’s What You Should Eat Today
On Friday night, NJ man was arrested on drunk driving charges after the authorities received numerous calls about “erratic driving” from a Volvo on Route 440. When a Port Authority police officer intercepted him near Outerbridge Crossing, Stuart Stott allegedly admitted to having five or six drinks at the Pinstripe Bowl . And the police officer also found Stott’s four-year-old son in the backseat. Fortunately, no one was injured. [ more › ]
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Man Arrested For Alleged Drunk Driving With 4-Yr-Old In Backseat
Yesterday one of the nation’s longest running “Occupy” encampments was evicted by police in Albany, the capital of the Empire State. After two months in a park across from City Hall and the Capitol, the Department of General Services workers and city policy notified protesters yesterday afternoon that a court order had given them the authority to remove them. As a group of demonstrators angrily shouted in protest, workers took down the tents until just one large tent (the “info tent”) remained. After a standoff, at least 50 occupiers seized this tent and paraded it through the city, then, as night fell, returned to the park for a final showdown with the cops. [ more › ]
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Video: Cop Pepper Sprays Occupy Albany Protesters Right In Front Of Santa
Members of Occupy Faith, “a small group of Christians, brought together by our time living at Occupy Wall Street,” is asking Brookfield Properties to allow then to host a 24-hour prayer vigil in Zuccotti Park on Christmas Eve. With the assistance of the NYCLU, the group has drafted a letter to city [ pdf ] officials and Bookfield, detailing the ceremony that will begin “with a midnight service on Christmas Eve and culminate with a closing ceremony at midnight on Christmas Day.” Additionally, the vigil calls for Occupy Faith to “bring into the park food for meals as well as bread and sacramental wine for communion,” as well as the requisite instruments. [ more › ]
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Christian Protesters Ask Brookfield To Hold 24-Hour Christmas Vigil In Zuccotti
Just in time for the winter chill, the Park Here park is back , Openhouse Gallery’s three-month pop-up park in Nolita. This year features a concert series with Rolling Stone mag, ten local food vendors, wine tastings, BBQ, movies and more. Plus, it’s warm, free, has WiFi, and… it’s a freaking indoor park, people, it’s just awesome. Where else are you going to swing on a hammock or have a picnic with friends in the city right now? At press time, the Parks Department isn’t providing warmth domes, nor do warmth domes exist, so this is it. [ more › ]
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The Indoor Park Is Back In Nolita For The Winter
Angela Jewth is living a parent’s nightmare . Her only son, 9-year-old Jonathan, died Wednesday—nine days after a choking incident at his Bronx school left him clinging to life in the hospital. Now she is getting ready to sue the city to find out why it appears nobody at P.S. 47 knew how to properly clear the healthy boy’s airways of a rogue meatball. ” If something had been done differently, my son would’ve been alive today, ” Jewth told the Daily News. [ more › ]
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9-Yr-Old Bronx Boy Dies After Choking On School Meatballs