April 13, 2009
More NY: Coney guide, old lampposts, tunnel tour
The beach at Coney Island. By Amy Langfield/NewYorkology
Joseph Patelson Music House in Manhattan to close (NY Times)
Ms. Patelson said the store had been losing money for years. “I put everything into it, my heart and soul,” she said, as well as a large amount of her own money. “I feel badly, but on the other hand the reason this business is going is because people stopped buying much here.” Ms. Patelson has no specific closing date, she said, but will shut the store by the end of April after selling off as much stock as she can.
NYPD reminds cops it’s legal to take pictures in NYC (Post)
The department directive — titled “Investigation of Individuals Engaged in Suspicious Photography and Video Surveillance” — makes it clear that cops cannot “demand to view photographs taken by a person … or direct them to delete or destroy images” in a camera.
A Coney Island summer, an unofficial guide (Brooklyn Paper)
Astroland bit the dust last fall, and even if there’s only one true amusement park left — Deno’s Wonder Wheel — there’s a smattering of other attractions sprinkled around the area to titillate the visiting hordes.
Lampposts by the Letter (Forgotten NY)
One of my favorite uses of a Type B isn’t in a park at all — it’s on 3rd Avenue and East 46th Street, where there’s a small flock of them painted silver instead of the usual black, with the “cage” luminaire that was adopted in the 1950s to prevent against increasing vandalism. These posts also sport old-fashioned incandescent bulbs.
Union chief vows hotel ‘holy war’ (Crain’s)
Since that meeting, 22 hotels, including The Carlyle, the Holiday Inn SoHo and Radisson Lexington, have filed grievances with an independent arbitrator. (News of the hotels’ actions was first reported today in The New York Times.) The hotels are hoping to avoid a 3.5% pay raise for housekeepers, bellmen and other hourly workers that is scheduled to begin in July.
A tour of the East Side Access tunnel (All City NY)
The workers have three shifts each day (work is 24-7, weekdays, but usually off on weekends), which arrive via a small work train from Queens. We were scheduled to hitch a ride on this train from the vent shaft at 2nd Avenue, but since we were late ended up slogging down by foot to 50th and Lex instead. That’s where the interesting stuff is, including the TBM (Tunnel Boring Machine) responsible for actually making the tunnel. We got to climb in it a bit which was pretty fun.
April 13, 2009 10:51 AM in Etceterology
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