According to the Downtown Express, it took three calls to 911 before help arrived for a woman suffering a seizure at the Grand Park Settlement's senior center. A staff member, Wally Ruiz, ended up running to the fire station on Pitt Street before emergency teams arrived for 64 year old Eva Delgado. It's unclear whether the trucks came from the Pitt Street station or another location. Delgado was taken to Beth Israel Hospital, where she was declared dead a short time later. There was apparently some question about whether the 911 operator received enough information to send help.But a Grand Street Settlement spokesperson says the staffer who called 911 gave all of the information that would have been needed.
The city has come up with a solution to the dispute over bike lanes along Kent Avenue in Brooklyn. It's worth taking note of the resolution across the river, as we await a plan for the Grand Street bike lanes. You'll recall LES residents unloaded on DOT officials during a "transportation town hall" recently.
A followup to our coverage of the contentious community meeting Wednesday night about noise coming from the Thompson LES Hotel. Jeremiah's Vanishing New York posted a video from a tipster who says a pool party last week was "disgustingly loud." See (and hear it) for yourself:
Three lanes of the Williamsburg Bridge will be closed on Saturday from
4:00 am to midnight to facilitate construction activity. Two
Manhattan-bound lanes and two Brooklyn-bound lanes will be maintained
by reversing the north inner roadway. Brooklyn-bound trucks will only
have the use of one lane and are strongly advised to use the Manhattan
Bridge or Queens Midtown Tunnel as an alternate.
Part of the ongoing Rooftop Films series will feature animated shorts tonight at the Open Road Rooftop at 350 Grand Street. Program notes say these films "defy expectations and bring us images
that have never been seen before–kinetic visions that defy logic
yet seem to make sense to some dark corner of our subconscious."
Tix are still ONLY $9 and the open bar after party is still at Fontana's. More about Rooftop Films here. More on tonight's show and to buy tix here.
The Brooklyn Daily Beagle reports on the "Notify NYC Program", an emergency alert system that has finally gone citywide after a year of testing on a smaller scale. The program was spearheaded by NYC Deputy Mayor Ed Skyler to improve the city’s emergency emergency communications – in the aftermath of 9/11. Participants can register online at the Notify NYC Page to receive notices on their cell phones, landlines or via email. There will be alerts about water main breaks, fires, power outages and other problems.
The Daily News reports on the mayor's budget cuts to after-school programs which "will leave more than
10,700 teenagers with nowhere to go when the exit bell rings". The Lo-Down is currently working on a story featuring the Educational Alliance teen program that's mentioned in the article.
The NYTimes reports Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is widening a probe of immigration fraud and has "issued more than 50 subpoenas to individuals and businesses in New
York City — including numerous immigrant-assistance organizations, a
travel agency, an English-language school and a church". Read the full story here.
The Artichoke Dance Company is currently at the University Settlement with Lynn Neuman’s “Recession Dances, and so can you!”. The performances draw from dance styles of previous U.S. 20th Century recession eras, such as
the Lindy Hop (Great Depression) and Hustle (70’s oil crisis),
refashioned with humor and irony.
For twelve full hours of non-stop FREE music, head down to theWorld Financial Center Winter Garden at 220 Vesey Street on Sunday for the "Bang on a Can Marathon" Co-presented by the River to River Festival, the marathon's schedule includes an "incomparable eclectic super-mix of genre defying music" and has an almost legendary reputation. For the full schedule visit their site here.
The jazz collaborative The Nu Band has released the album "Lower East Side Blues" and received postitive reveiws here and here.
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