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Bowery Building Razed for New Office Development
Posted November 21, 2019 at 5:02 am
The old Bowery tenement that previously housed a restaurant supply company is coming down. In its place, a new five-story office building. Passing by 216 Bowery this week, we spotted half the structure eliminated behind a Black death shroud. Approved permits on file with Department of Buildings indicate that the stout brick tenement at 216 […]
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Construction Resumes at 139 Bowery, Awaiting 14-Story Payload
Posted November 13, 2019 at 5:09 am
There is finally construction activity to report at the 139-141 Bowery development site. The spot has been largely dormant ever since the double-wide walk-ups were summarily razed three years ago. With the area now buzzing, the march toward a fourteen-story future continues. Plans to redevelop the properties, in one form or another, date back to […]
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Homeless Man Pleads Not Guilty to Murder Charges in Chinatown Beating Deaths
Posted November 1, 2019 at 5:02 am
The homeless man accused of bludgeoning to death four other homeless men on the Bowery last month returned to court Monday for the arraignment. Investigators charged 24-year-old Randy Santos with four counts of murder, and one charge of attempted murder (one man survived the beating), for attacking his victims with a three-foot piece of scrap […]
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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 […]
