Bowery
B Bar on the Bowery Now a Development Site as Owner Sells $59.5M Interest
Posted October 16, 2019 at 5:00 am
Seems fitting that the bar integral to the Sex and the City story will fall victim to the forces of gentrification. B Bar & Grill (aka Bowery Bar) owner Eric Goode – whose hospitality credits also include the Bowery Hotel, Ludlow Hotel, and the Jane Hotel – is apparently co-developing the site for a much […]
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Who will Bury the Unidentified Homeless Victim Murdered on the Bowery Last Weekend?
Posted October 15, 2019 at 5:10 am
New Yorkers awoke ten days ago to shocking news that four homeless men on the Bowery were brutally beaten to death while sleeping by an attacker with a three-foot piece of scrap metal (and another seriously injured). It later came out that 24-year-old Bronx native, Randy Santos, himself homeless, perpetrated the attack, and boasts a […]
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Faerman Cash Registers Closure Scare on the Bowery [Updated]
Last modified October 11, 2019 at 2:18 pm
A Bowery relic is no more. Faerman Cash Register Company just closed the till for the last time, as it were. Tipsters wrote in to say that showroom at 159 Bowery is clearing out; the gates were drawn yesterday afternoon. Update: the store is not closed. They were observing Yom Kippur As previously reported, 159 […]
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At the Chinatown Vigil for Homeless Men Murdered on the Bowery
Last modified October 8, 2019 at 10:22 am
It was a moment of silence, shame, then a call to action. New York City could not sweep its homeless crisis under the rug Monday morning as a moment of silence at a vigil in Kimlau Square, Chinatown was deafening to those mourning the senseless murder of four homeless men by a 24-year-old attacker now […]
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Gerber Group Takes Over Food and Beverage at Hotel 50 Bowery
Posted October 7, 2019 at 5:11 am
Celebrity chef Dale Talde, who made a name for himself on Top Chef, dissolved his seven-year-old restaurant back in January of this year. With it, the surrender of culinary activities elsewhere, including food and beverage oversight at Joie de Vivre’s Hotel 50 Bowery. Now, new management. No longer in the hands of the hotel, the […]
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After 25 Years, there is No Supreme on Lafayette Street
Posted October 7, 2019 at 5:03 am
For the first time in nearly three decades, there is no Supreme flag positioned above Lafayette Street. The storefront banner, which was under constant surveillance last week, is now deposed. So much for the proposed facelift. Indeed, the word on the street is that Supreme is staying on board at 190 Bowery. This location – […]
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Attacker Behind Bowery Bloodbath Charged with Murder; has More than a Dozen Prior Arrests
Posted October 7, 2019 at 5:00 am
Police yesterday charged 24-year-old Randy Rodriguez Santos in connection with the brutal early morning murder of four homeless men on the Bowery a day earlier. Santos struck five times in the vicinity of Kimlau Square in Chinatown, bludgeoning to death four vagrants while they slept with a fifteen-pound rod of scrap metal. One victim survived […]
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Four Homeless Men Beaten to Death on the Bowery Early this Morning
Last modified October 5, 2019 at 12:52 pm
Four homeless men were found dead on the Bowery this morning, and another critically injured, after an assailant man apparently attacked them randomly with a metal pipe, police said. According to various published reports, the 24-year-old attacker, who is himself homeless, is now in custody following this early morning murder spree. He’s reportedly undergoing psychiatric […]
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New Museum and its Workers Union Reach Agreement
Posted October 4, 2019 at 5:10 am
After several months of negotiations and the palpable threat of a strike last week, the New Musuem and the New Museum’s union have reached an agreement. The new contact is valid as of last Tuesday through June 30, 2024, and gives union members a new wage structure, allows for more time off, provides reduced employee […]
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Tomokazu Matsuyama’s Bowery Wall Mural is Defaced
Posted October 4, 2019 at 5:03 am
Have mural, will tag. What took twelve people two weeks to complete is already vandalized. But that’s just par for the course over at the Bowery Art Wall, where Brooklyn-based artist Tomokazu Matsuyama last Monday completed the latest mural. Yesterday morning, two large tags were scrawled at the bottom of the wall.
