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Nabe News: July 9

Posted: July 9, 2010 at 2:14 pm

Super Mario hits snag, Sin Sin noise wars, and fare hikes, all in today’s neighborhood news roundup!

Checking in with Wo Hop, the 72-year-old Chinese restaurant on Mott Street [Eater]

The New York Times just ran a piece on Pablo Vargas of the Stanton Tailor Shop [NY Times; Previously]

Another chapter in the East Village noise wars.  Next up is Sin Sin. Neighbors are gathering signatures in order to prevent the liquor license transfer from happening at next week’s SLA meeting [EV Grieve]

Despite a bill passed in 2008 forbidding stores to leave their doors open while blasting the AC, many are doing so anyway.  Obviously.  As Gothamist points out, “it’s like enjoying a free hit of crack.” [Gothamist]

It would appear that the powers-that-be at Nintendo caught wind of the egregious copyright infringement over at Mario’s Pizza on East Houston. The Mario character is now blacked out [Fork in the Road; Previously]

A new MetroCard surcharge might be in the works for the planned MTA 2011 rate hikes.  Also, limiting the number of rides for weekly and monthly straphangers.  More doomsday ahead [Second Avenue Sagas]