Photo in Riverside Park by Amal Doleh.
May 2, 2012 Weather: Showers, High of 56 Degrees.
News:
Upper West Siders tired of a food truck on 68th Street and Broadway that they are asking the city to put meters on the block. (DNAinfo)
A 20-year-old woman says she was sexually assaulted by a man on a northbound number 2 train on April 25. She says he assaulted her again when they both got off at 96th Street. She snapped a photo of him (left) and police are asking for help in finding him. (ABC)
Italian restaurant Salumeria Rosi on 74th Street and Amsterdam is expanding to the Upper East Side. (NY Times)
The rent guidelines board approved increases of 1.75% to 4% on one-year leases, and 3.5% to 6.75% increases on two-year leases. (NY Times)
These food trucks – and their relatives, those aluminum trailers that are hauled up onto the sidewalk – are a plague upon our land. They often don’t smell too good and if you check around back, they aren’t the most sanitary of dining options. I think the restaurateurs who run brick and mortar coffee shops and luncheonettes and who pay their taxes and get “A”s and “B’s for their cleanliness deserve our trade.