Nabe News: March 25
Remembering Triangle Shirtwaist, Cabin Down Below complaints, and roving coyotes, all in today’s neighborhood news roundup!
Today marks the 99th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. 146 factory workers – most were young immigrant women – perished in the flames. General safety reforms in the workplace resulted [NY1]
One neighbor expresses extreme frustration regarding the constant noise from East Village haunt Cabin Down Below [EV Grieve]
A roving wild coyote (Wile E. Coyote?) was caught in TriBeCa this morning. It was heading northbound on the West Side Highway, before turning onto Watts Street [Cityroom]
Billy Joel just bought an apartment at 211 Elizabeth Street, allegedly for his daughter, Alexa. The 1,607 square-foot, two-bedroom apartment cost the Piano Man $3.3 million [Curbed]
Remember Trader John’s/Grocer John’s? When it opened last year, a shitstorm of controversy resulted, prompting Trader Joe’s to file a lawsuit. Well, all that no longer matters, as the market is out of business [Vanishing NY]
Under-aged tween sensation, Justin Bieber, dined at The Eldridge after his record release party [NY Post via Eater]
Today is International Waffle Day, which first began in Sweden. It is always exactly nine months before Christmas – supposedly the day the Virgin Mary found out she was pregnant [Gothamist]
Recent Stories
Unprovoked Stabbing on Worth Street has Chinatown on Edge
In an apparently random attack yesterday evening, a 36-year-old Chinese man was stabbed in the back, and severely injured, by Brooklyn resident Salman Muflihi. The attacker wielded an eight-inch knife in the incident outside the Daniel Patrick Moynihan U.S. Courthouse on Worth Street, then surrendered at the entrance of the Manhattan DA’s office on Hogan Place. […]
Uncapped: In Conversation with Clayton Patterson and Cochise
Oh hey, Boogie Faithful, it’s your favorite historian here announcing our new graf-related podcast. We’ve done a few episodes, literally, and for the latest, Clayton Patterson has come out of his Boogie corner. We chatted, we laughed, we discussed some esoteric, anecdotal and priceless Lower East Side history. Local native and artist Jose “Cochise” Quiles also […]
Jing Fong Waiters Urge Landlord to Reinstate Dining Room
Chinatown shook to its core last weekend upon news that Jing Fong is closing down its massive dining room next week (March 7). The restaurant will continue operating as a ghost kitchen to fulfill orders for takeout, delivery, and outdoor dining on its patio. They’re reportedly on a month-to-month lease. “With our drastic decline in […]
Small Business Owners ‘Permanently Close’ to Demand COVID Relief
Local small business groups, along with the Cooper Square Committee, East Village Community Coalition, and Village Preservation are hosting a rally today in the name of economic survival. It’s part of a statewide week of activism to find commercial rent relief in the city. With that, businesses who fear forever closure due to rent burdens […]
Fired Laundry Workers Accuse Liox Cleaners of ‘Union Busting’
The Liox Cleaners chain is facing a raft of opposition in the wake of alleged “union busting.” Tuesday afternoon saw the first of two picketing actions outside the Allen Street location, just north of Delancey. According to the distributed literature, “On February 19, the Liox laundry chain fired the immigrant woman workers of the Wash […]
