Photo by Avi.
December 18, 2012 Weather: Cloudy, High of 51 Degrees.
Notices:
A town hall meeting, free concerts, and a free comedy show are on our calendar.
Rep. Jerry Nadler has posted a petition on gun control. Check it out here.
There’s a public hearing tonight at 6 about as Success Academy Charter School on West 118th Street.
News:
Ronald Sinvil, 36, of West 99th Street was struck and kille dby a street sweeper in Brooklyn over the weekend. He had a 6-year-old girl. “He’s just a really good guy, and a good father,” said his brother, Josue Sinvil. (NY Post)
Two guns were recovered in Riverside Park around 125th Street. No word yet on whether they were used in crimes. “On Wednesday in Riverside Park at 125th street a park patron found a gun along the shoreline. Upon further inspection a Parks Department employee found another gun near by. The hand-guns recovered were a Taurus 45-semi automatic, and a Smith & Wesson revolver according to the police. (A Walk in the Park)
An ode to a mundane Con Ed Control Center on West End Avenue. (Mid-Century Mundane)
What if there was gas fracking in Central Park? Some silliness with photoshop at the bottom of this post. (No Fracking Way)
My BitDefender virus program blocked the No Fracking Way site as containing malware. Google’s presumably safe cache of it is here:
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:vNBZ-fxnytYJ:blog.shaleshockmedia.org/2012/12/16/fracking-central-park-west/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a