Check out some real estate, crime, arts and other news below from other outlets over the past couple of weeks.
Real estate investors keep buying up local buildings full of rent-stabilized tenants, likely in hopes that they can eventually rent them out at market rates. Recently, 5 west 91st street sold for $27.15 million, 62% more than it had sold for in 2010. “The West 91 Street buyer was the Park family, a Fort Lee, N.J.-based family with real estate holdings in New York and New Jersey, which plans to keep the property the way it is, sources familiar with the matter told The Real Deal.” (The Real Deal)
Ilya Lehman, a 70-year-old Upper West Side music teacher at Early Ear music school, has been accused of molesting a 9-year-old female student. “Lehman, 70, allegedly touched the young girl on numerous occasions and forced her to touch him at least five times over the course of several months to a year….The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said yesterday that parents whose kids were taught by Lehman can contact the office’s child-abuse hot line at (212) 335-4308.” (NY Post)
The DOT said it would improve signals at the dangerous intersection of 79th and Amsterdam. (DNAinfo)
Haim Lalo of Cafe Lalo is set to flip his 15 CPW apartment. (Curbed)
There’s a new garden on the roof at of the garage at the historic Schwab House on Riverside Drive and 74th. “We have gotten a lot of thank-yous from people who live or walk on 74th Street.” (Habitat Mag)
Curbed pitted two swanky townhouses in the 90’s against each other, asking: if you had $6.5 million which would you buy? (Curbed)
The thoughts of a man waiting in line for Shakespeare in the Park: “A quintessential summer day is to come get in line, read a book, talk to the people in line, get tickets and then come to Shakespeare in the evening. That’s it. I mean, that’s a lot of what New York says to me..” (The Awl, second item)
Linda Fairstein’s newest mystery is set in Central Park, and started with an old story she found: “LIVED A MONTH IN A CAVE—Police Find a Fifteen Year Old Runaway, Hiding in Central Park.” (Daily Beast)
The Daily News argues that the law to limit the size of UWS storefronts and banks in particular isn’t working, because businesses like Big Nick’s keep closing anyway. (Daily News)
Idan Zablocki, a 1-year-old local boy who has a rare genetic disorder, is $133,000 closer to an operation and treatment. (Daily News)
Theo Dixon, the “mayor of 71st street,” was picked as NY1 New Yorker of the week. To know Theo is to love him. (NY1)
Re: the above “…mystery is set in Central Park, and started with an old story she found: “LIVED A MONTH IN A CAVE—Police Find a Fifteen Year Old Runaway, Hiding in Central Park.”
How many recall “The Caveman’s Valentine,” (2001) starring the always-great Samuel L. Jackson as Romulus, a seemingly deranged former musician who inhabits a cave in Central Park!!
I vaguely remembered it and then checked it out on IMDB (Internet Movie Data Base).
Here’s their plot summary: “Romulus is mentally ill, a troglodyte in a New York City park. He’s also a gifted composer and the father of a city cop. On Valentine’s Day, a young man freezes in a tree near his cave. The police determine it’s the accidental death of someone behaving bizarrely, but Romulus resolves to catch the killer ….”
Guess what goes around comes around.