Nabe News: July 1

Posted: July 1, 2009 at 1:59 pm

The endangered stretch of Orchard Street between Houston and Delancey continues its demise with the closure of Hudson Street Papers. “‘The Lower East Side is bad news,’ says the owner.” A great store that will be missed [Racked]

Contrasting two very different versions of the Bowery [EV Grieve]

A brief history of Macy’s. The department store opened for business in 1858 at Sixth Avenue and Fourteenth Street. It wasn’t until 1902 that the business moved north to its current home in Herald Square [Ephemeral NY]

After first colliding with a Cadillac, a police car careened onto the sidewalk at Fifth Street and Avenue D yesterday afternoon. Bob Arihood was on scene, and has extensive coverage of the event [Neither More Nor Less]

Russell Simmons in his open letter – Instead of programs for “tourists and more affluent New Yorkers…we need more programs that will keep our young people from literally killing each other.” [Metro]

Celebrating the Sony Walkman at 30 years young [Gizmodo]

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