HCC 50 Years + HK This Week
Good morning and joyful Saturday. The clouds ought to clear by 11am, and we’ve acquired solar, solar, solar forecast for the remainder of the weekend. Yippee!
Housing Conservation Coordinators is marking 50 years of organizing in Hell’s Kitchen to guard tenants within the neighborhood and past. Learn extra…
Right here’s the remainder of the information from across the neighborhood this week…
Final Sunday, Amtrak halted its companies north from New York’s Penn Station after the closure of a parking storage on W51st Road simply west of tenth Avenue above the tracks in Hell’s Kitchen. Practice service was solely restored on Thursday, and locals with their vehicles within the storage won’t be able to get them out till early subsequent week. Learn extra…
Sylvester “Sly” Stallone’s Hell’s Kitchen roots are key in setting the scene for a brand new Netflix documentary delving into the actor-writer not simply as a “powerful man” motion star, however as an progressive — and sometimes annoyed — creator too typically fenced in by his appears to be like. Learn extra…
Ever questioned whose paint provided the long-lasting New York Metropolis yellow-brick street in The Wiz, adorned the partitions of Gossip Woman‘s tony Higher East Facet townhouses and adorned the numerous, many units of the town’s Legislation and Order franchise? Hell’s Kitchen’s very personal 128-year-old Epstein’s Paint Middle is the behind-the-scenes star provider — and is now busier than ever, gearing as much as get again on set after the SAG/AFTRA strike ended. Learn extra…
The worldwide and West Facet enthusiasm for pickleball is now being matched by 4 brand-new courts at W34th Road in Hudson River Park. Learn extra…
Manhattan District Lawyer Alvin Bragg has charged carriage horse driver Ian McKeever with abusing a horse. Ryder collapsed on ninth Avenue in August 2022 after working for hours in an 84-degree warmth. Learn extra…
Search for above the intersection of eleventh Avenue and W51st Road and also you’ll spot a well-recognized face and his canine buddy smiling down from the billboard. Ron Perlman, greatest identified for roles in Hellboy and Sons of Anarchy, and his beloved rescue canine, Harrington, need to share an vital message — “Don’t Purchase Canine.” Learn extra…
W42ST’s Life-style Editor Sarah Beling has the lowdown on what’s occurring round city in her “Make Approach For The Weekend” e-newsletter. Learn extra…
Hell’s Kitchen is about to lose two of its most cherished hospitality landmarks. The Press Lounge rooftop bar and PRINT, a beloved farm-to-table eatery, will each shut their doorways completely on February 1, 2024. Learn extra…
In an unprecedented crackdown on counterfeit items, federal and native regulation enforcement businesses have unearthed the most important operation in US historical past in Hell’s Kitchen. The US Lawyer’s Workplace for the Southern District of New York introduced the seizure of over $1 billion in pretend luxurious gadgets saved at Gotham Mini Storage. Learn extra…
We’ve revealed our Thanksgiving Information once more — there are almost 30 locations you possibly can select from in Hell’s Kitchen when you don’t fancy cooking at dwelling.
What we’ve been studying
* Tales that may be behind a paywall are marked with a 💰
Subway ticket merchandising machines at the moment are thought-about a NYC design icon. (Engadget)
Some New York books for vacation present concepts. (Forbes)
FiDi leads with workplace to housing conversions — will the Garment District observe? (New York Occasions💰)
New outside eating guidelines will wipe out many al fresco constructions. (Hell Gate💰)
Again in 1911, there was a plan for a 57th Road bridge from Hell’s Kitchen to New Jersey. (Ephemeral New York)
Freeze Body
It’s a yr right now since Sullivan Road Bakery on W47th Road flooded — wiping out their vacation plans. Homeowners Maya Joseph and Jim Lahey praised buyer Leslie Boghosian Murphy for serving to them lower via New York paperwork and get open once more. She was initially rewarded with “free bread for all times”, however yesterday she swapped that honor for having an SSB supply truck named after her. “I went for vainness over carbs,” mentioned Leslie as she sat within the car’s cab.
Pleased birthday tomorrow to Ron Livingston, Larry Burstein and Cesar Razuri.
