Vincent Bradly (left) has reportedly been fired as State Liquor Authority chairman and is going be replaced by one of the SLA Commissioners, NYC attorney Lily Fan, a one time co-secretary of community board 4 on the west side of Manhattan. Photo: State Liquor Authority NYC Attorney Expected to Rise to Top Spot After SLA Boss Fired: Report Vincent Bradley, the chairman of the problem plagued State Liquor Authority, has reportedly been fired after an eight year... News 02 Jun 2023 | 11:30
Woman “instantly paralyzed” from attack by subway fiend is a graphic artist fighting for her life A 35-year-old woman who was attacked by a crazed subway shover is fighting for her life. Suspect Kamal Semrade was arrested... News 25 May 2023 | 02:41
The debt holder of iconic Theatre 80 on St. Marks Place evicted the longtime owners, Lorcan Otway and his wife Genie Gilmore and on May 9 agreed to sell the premises to a new owner. Now a petition on Change.org is urging Mayor Eric Adams to use eminent domain to seize the property. It has gnarred over 8,000 signatures. Photo: Change.org 8,000 Signature Petition Urges Mayor Adams to Use Eminent Domain to Save Theatre 80 LIK Holdings emerged as the wining bidder for the building that houses Theatre 80 at a bankruptcy court auction on May 9th,... News 18 May 2023 | 11:04
An Islamic terrorist who killed eight people by driving a rental truck onto a West Side bike path in 2017 will die in prison after he was convicted to ten life sentences plus another 260 years. Photo: flickr West Side Bike Path Terrorist Sentenced to 10 life sentences plus another 260 years An Islamic terrorist was sentenced to ten life sentences and another 260 years in prison for driving a rental truck down... News 17 May 2023 | 05:10
Police released a photo of one of three individuals that attacked a 14 year old victim with anti-gay language and bashed his head against the ground, according to police. Photo: Crimestoppers. Chelsea Gay Bashers Still At Large, Police Seek Public’s Help in Nabbing Attackers Police are still seeking the public’s help in nabbing a group of individuals who brutally attacked a 14 year old male youth... News 15 May 2023 | 04:55
Bus dropping off migrants on Friday, May 5th at the former NYPD Academy on E. 20th St. Photo: Keith J. Kelly Immigrants Begin Arriving at Former NYPD Academy in Gramercy Park Immigrants began getting dropped off at temporary housing being set up in the first floor gym of the former NYPD Academy... News 08 May 2023 | 11:10
Desirae Andersen, a beautiful aspiring model and mother of an eight month old daughter, following a brutal argument with her 24 year old boyfriend, leaped to her death from the tenth floor of the Hotel Oyo on West 47th St. Photo: Go Fund Me 2 Suicides In 2 Days: 20 y.o. Aspiring Model and 31 y.o Google Engineer A heartbroken mother has started a Go FundMe page to pay for the funeral of her daughter and to bring her daughter’s eight... News 08 May 2023 | 05:11
Deputy Inspector Jonathan Korabel is the last Manhattan commanding officer on the move. He’s moving from the 30th Pct. in western Harlem that he has headed for two years to the 47th Pct in northern Bronx. Photo: NYPD file photo As Crime Recedes in 3Oth Pct, C.O. Korabel Gets Moved to Northern Bronx Where Crime Is Rising; He’s replaced by a Transit Captain. In the latest round of dizzying shuffles of Manhattan precinct commanders, Inspector Jonathan Korabel who had been atop the... News 02 May 2023 | 05:54
City Council Member Gale Brewer, Publisher Jeanne Straus, “Phantom of the Opera” Concertmaster Joyce Hammann, City Council Member Erik Bottcher, and NY1 Anchor Pat Kiernan. ‘Phantom of the Opera’ Concertmaster Steals Show at the WESTY Awards “You can’t give an award to a musician and expect them to speak,” said Joyce Hammann, the concertmaster for “Phantom of the... News 01 May 2023 | 06:32
Tucker Carlson, the top draw on right leaning Fox News, is leaving. Photo: Wikimedia Commons The Day that Rocked the Cable titans:Tucker Carlson at Fox and Don Lemon at CNN both Gone It was not too long ago that it would have been seen as highly unlikely that either star on opposite sides of the political... News 25 Apr 2023 | 12:26
Jonah Peretti, the founder of Buzzfeed, said he is shutting down its money losing news division and laying off 15 percent of the company that had worked in the news division. Photo: Wikimedia Commons As Buzzfeed kills its news division, a new report says Disney once wanted to buy the company for $650M The extent of the layoffs at Buzzfeed is still not preciely known after the once high flying tech company that built its... News 25 Apr 2023 | 12:11
Clash of the titans: CB5 wants Madison Sqaure Garden to move to make way for a new rail hub. Construction giant ASTM says its plan would demolish the HULU Theater to build a new grand entrance to Penn Station, but still leave MSG atop the nation’s busiest rail hub. Photo: Keith J. Kelly Fireworks Over Penn Sta.? CB5 to hear from ASTM at public forum at MOMA on 4/24 It could be a clash of the titans. In the most wide ranging discussion yet on the future of Penn Station, Community Board... News 24 Apr 2023 | 09:32
PS 267 on E. 63rd St. where former PTA co-treasurer Marc Haynes was sentenced to 2 1/2 to 5 years in prison for stealing nearly $186,000 from the school’s PTA fund between Oct. 2020 to July 2021. Photo: NY Post/Google Maps. Former PTA Co-President Heading to Prison for Stealing $$$ from UES Elementary School Fund A former co-president of the PTA at an Upper East Side elementary school was sentenced to 2 1/2 to five years in prison after... News 19 Apr 2023 | 04:44
Theatre 80 has been an iconic performance space on St. Mark’s Place in the East Village for nearly 60 years, but it is now being shut down by a real estate developer and unless it can raise $12 million to pay off a loan in default, it could be sold at a bankruptcy auction. Before his eviction, owner Lorcan Otway stands outside the front doors of the theater that his father Howard bought in 1964. Photo: Keith J. Kelly Theatre 80 Hopes for a Miracle to Save It from Bankruptcy Auction now set for May 9th All that Lorcan Otway, the owner of the embattled Theatre 80 wants, is a little more time. The off beat East Village theater–where... News 18 Apr 2023 | 02:19
Ghost restaurants such as Intermezzo at 202 Eighth Ave. are no longer in business but a West Side restaurateur applied for over $6.1M in COVID relief loans for up to ten restaurants that the feds said were either shut down or else he overstated the size of the businesses to scam relief loans. Photo: BKUK Group West Side restaurateur who tried to scam $6.1M in COVID loans gets 4+ years in prison instead A businessman who at one time ran up to ten restaurants in Hell’s Kitchen, Chelsea and Greenwich Village has been sentenced... News 17 Apr 2023 | 11:42
