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Stuy Town Ice Pick mugger gets 18 years in elevator attacks
New York Post Local
Dec 13Even a year later, a Stuyvesant Town mom has harrowing flashbacks of the day a crazed serial mugger pushed into her elevator and threatened to stab her toddler son with an icepick. "It was terrifying," the woman, who wishes to remain anonymous, said in... »
Stuy Town 'Ice Pick' mugger gets 18 years in elevator attacks
New York Post Local
Dec 13Hulking career mugger John Martinez was sent to prison for at least 18 years today for robbing two terrified moms with an ice pick in separate attacks in Stuyvesant Town elevators last December. Today's sentencing also covers the Nov. 2010 knifepoint m... »
Stuy Town tenants, Brookfield make bid to buy complex
Crain's New York Commercial Real Estate
Dec 04Arlynne Miller has been disgusted by changes at Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village in recent years, ranging from a falloff in building maintenance to the installation of a ice-skating pond that residents must pay to use.But there's hope. Ms. Miller s... »
Stuy Town tenants, Brookfield make bid to buy complex
Crain's New York
Dec 04Residents, deep-pocketed Brookfield Asset Management team up in plan to create affordable condos at Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village; setting a price will be tricky. »
Old Stuy Town suitor pops back in
Crain's New York Business
Dec 02Just two days after Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village tenants announced that they had teamed up with a Canadian firm to try to buy the vast complex, another group is lobbying to be the residents' partner. A partnership between Gerald Guterman, who c... »
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Witnesses Report Two Gunshots At Lillian Wald Houses
The Local East Village
Jan 13Two convenience store employees report hearing the shots. »
My LES: Marijke Briggs
The Lo-Down
Jan 09Marijke Briggs, in East River Park, near the Williamsburg Bridge. This weekly feature spotlights a wide variety of people who live and work on the Lower East Side. If you know someone you would like to suggest be featured in “My LES,” please email us... »
First Word: Community Board 2 may not be...
Eater NY
Dec 30Community Board 2 may not be hearing from big guns like Ken Friedman, but it still has an interesting docket lined up for January. The Union Square Hyatt will go for its liquor licenses, the owner of Petite Abeille is... »
Non-Christmas Music That Reminds Me of Christmas #1: "(Just Like) Starting Over" by John Lennon
Flaming Pablum
Dec 13Hey all.. Sorry for the relative slowdown in regular posting, but it being the holiday season, I'm afraid I'm crazy busy at the moment (as are, I'd imagine, most of you). There have been numerous things I've been intending to... »
9/11 Memorial Pub Closes
Grub Street New York
Dec 12Gone but not in spirit. M.J. Armstrong's, named after Michael Armstrong, a trader who died in the Twin Towers, closed last week. The Post says it was the "first public venue anywhere to be named for a 9/11 victim." Five Fordham grads originally opened ... »