January 3, 2013 Weather: Sunny, High of 30 Degrees.
Notices:
A free Lincoln Center opera performance that runs less than an hour and more free events are on our calendar.
Still have your Christmas tree? Remember, you can turn it into mulch!
News:
It takes a special kind of creep to hold you up on Christmas Day. And the Upper West Side apparently has some very special creeps. In one robbery, two people came up behind a 39-year-old local and choked him, wrestling away his $150 HP Touchpad and running away down West 76th Street. In the other, a couple assaulted a 42-year-old woman on 74th Street, with the female perp hitting her in the head, and demanded her phone. “Instead of complying, however, the woman managed to escape the robbers and ran toward Amsterdam Avenue yelling for help. The pair fled defeated, but have yet to be identified or apprehended.” There were few other details available on the crimes. All the creeps are still at large. (NY Press)
Lincoln Square Synagogue at 200 Amsterdam Avenue is having trouble moving the holy arc in its main sanctuary to its new building about to open down the block. “The $100,000 ark was designed and constructed by artist and architectural designer Edward Jacobs at the request of the late Martha Cohen, a longtime member of the synagogue and its staff, as a gift in memory of her parents, who perished in the Holocaust. The ark evokes warm feelings among many members who both remember Cohen fondly and marvel at its unique qualities; but others find the design impractical and too kitschy.” If they don’t move the ark, it has to be buried according to Jewish custom. The synagogue said it’s unlikely they’ll have to do that. (The Jewish Week)
Let’s discuss the 7 day a week construction noise that has been coming from the synagogue construction! I’m Jewish but I think it’s really disrespectful to the neighbors to have them suffer every darned day with construction noise. I’ve called the synagogue and 311, but apparently, they have the appropriate variances that allow them to do this. The only positive thing about this is that during the weekdays, I don’t need to rely on my alarm clock.