Photo by Avi.
March 21, 2012 Weather:Partly Cloudy, High of 69 Degrees.
Notices:
William Anderson’s monthly work-from-home meetup at The Dead Poet Bar on 81st and Amsterdam is today at 2 p.m.
Protesters will congregate in Verdi Square at 72nd and Broadway at 4:30 p.m. today to urge a citywide boycott of FreshDirect, which is trying to open a new facility on the Bronx waterfront. Opponents say the company has a bad labor history, and the new facility is unnecessary and will waste public funds. Also this: “The move to the South Bronx would entail building next to a waste transfer station and on land documented with evidence of a Native American settlement and burial ground.”
News:
Randy Regan, a fireman from the Upper West Side, was biking to work along the Hudson on Tuesday morning when he saw a woman floating on a log in the river around 82nd Street. He jumped in, saved her, and still made it to work at his East Village firehouse by 9 a.m. (Daily News)
A remembrance of Joe Goldberg (Mr. Gee), the patriarch of Harry’s Shoes who recently passed away. “Shoe stores occupy a special place in a community’s consciousness, especially those that have been around as long as Harry’s.” (Wall Street Journal)
Food critic Steve Cuozzo is not a big fan of Loi, the new-ish Greek restaurant on 70th. (We think he’s wrong.) (NY Post)
Every single payphone in the city will soon be replaced by Internet kiosks that allow you to plug in your BlackBerry or iPhone. (NY Post)
A photo tour of Upper Broadway’s “forgotten movie theaters,” from Washington Heights to the Upper West Side. (Untapped New York)
