Commanding Officer, Captain Nancy Barry, handing out awards to Police Officer Lugo and Police Officer Ducreton Wednesday night.
Newly arrived Commanding Officer, Captain Nancy Barry, was introduced on Wednesday night at the 7th Precinct Community Council Meeting. It's a homecoming of sorts. She got her start as a police officer in 1981, in the 7th. Thirty years later, after moving up through the ranks of the NYPD, she's back in the old neighborhood.
This week Barry gave awards to the two officers who went to great lengths to catch a suspect accused of stealing several ATM machines in Lower Manhattan (noted a few weeks ago in our "Dumb Crook Alert"). One of the officers jumped into the East River to catch the suspect. Awards were also given out to two officers who caught a woman suspected of numerous grand larcenies and many robberies (Police Officer Lugo and Police Officer Ducreton, pictured above) .
Barry reported monthly crime stats, noting that overall crime in the neighborhood is down by 27%. Crime statistics for the 7th Precinct can be found online here. She also noted that overall crime city-wide is down 12% since last year. In our area, murder and rape are down 100% since last month and robbery is down by 42% (there were 11 reported). Grand larceny is down by 43% (there were 18 reported) but felony assaults are up by 33% (8 reported) and burglaries are up by 50% (3 reported).
Highlights of this weekend's avant-garde Vision Festival: Tonight's tribute to Albert
Ayler starring trumpeter Roy Campbell; a quartet led by the drummer Milford Graves tomorrow night; Spontaneous River with violinist
Jason Kao Hwang on Monday. See the complete schedule here.
Drummer Milford Graves
The Met's Summer Recital Series takes place tonight in East River Park at 7. Featured will be soprano Joyce El-Khoury, bass Keith Miller, accompanied by Vlad Iftinca. Actor/conductor Damon Gupton, a Juilliard graduate, will host the park concert.
Rooftop Films: Tonight on the Open Road Rooftop Above the New Design High School, "A fun, frantic, fantastical program of films about losing your grip on reality, and reality losing its grip on the world." The doors open at 8pm.
The ring toss, hoola hoops, jump ropes, face painting and obstacle courses… all part of the third annual field day at East River Park. Registration is at 10am, open to all families with children.
Don't be alarmed if you see a bunch of people dressed like bumble bees crossing the Williamsburg Bridge this weekend. It's all for a good cause!
As we reported earlier, Mayor Bloomberg has decided to cut 100% of the city’s after-school youth programs supported by OST2. These cuts will affect 88 programs and almost 11,000 students city-wide, leaving many disenfranchised youth without a safe place to go after school. We’ve been following the efforts of The Educational Alliance to fight the cuts. We were there with them at City Hall on Wednesday for a big rally and press conference. It was an impressive gathering of over 200 students representing many different programs throughout the city. Several City Council members spoke, and as the crowd grew, television cameras seemed to materialize out of nowhere. The rally concluded with students from the Educational Alliance handing Deputy Mayor Dennis Walcott petitions with almost 5000 signatures of support to reinstate these life-altering programs.
As Albany turns. The governor pretty much summed up the week: “The dysfunction and chaos in the Senate has wasted an entire week of the people’s business.”
The City Council wants to require NYPD traffic cops to snap a photo every time they write a ticket.
The Daily News reports more than 2600 employees of the New York public schools will lose their jobs this fall due to budget cuts. No teachers will be fired, but the impact of axing school aides, counselors and hall monitors will be felt in the classroom.
At Levant East, formerly Thor, in the Hotel on Rivington you will be greeted (or turned away, as the case may be) by a doorman.
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