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May 19th, 2009

Scenes From the Recession: Restaurant Edition

If you read the exhaustive New York Times piece over the weekend on DBGB, Daniel Boulud's new restaurant on the Bowery, you know even restauranteurs with impeccable credentials and huge bank accounts are more than a little nervous about big ventures these days. In the words of one restaurant consultant, "does the word bloodbath mean [...]

May 19th, 2009

New Bike Safety Web Site Debuts

If you really want to get Grand Street motorists going, ask them how they feel about bicyclists who don't obey the traffic rules. We found that out last month during the transportation "town hall" sponsored by Councilman Alan Gerson. Later Transportation Alternatives spokesman Wiley Norvell told us his organization is working hard to promote good [...]

May 19th, 2009

New Bike Safety Web Site Debuts

If you really want to get Grand Street motorists going, ask them how they feel about bicyclists who don't obey the traffic rules. We found that out last month during the transportation "town hall" sponsored by Councilman Alan Gerson. Later Transportation Alternatives spokesman Wiley Norvell told us his organization is working hard to promote good [...]

May 19th, 2009

Downtown Crime Stats: Reality Check

Gawker unleashes a not unwarranted snark attack on this morning's New York Post story on rising assault cases throughout Downtown Manhattan. On the Lower East Side for instance there have been 10 more assaults so far this year than there were at this time in 2008 — not exactly the "Violent Crime Wave" the Post [...]

May 19th, 2009

Tuesday News Links

According to the New York Post, the NYPD is dealing with a big increase in assaults downtown, the "city's party mecca." In the Lower East Side, there have been 43 assaults so far in 2009, up 30-percent from 2008. But the The Village (both East and West) topped the LES in violent crimes. The NYPD [...]