#Man charged with assaulting elderly woman on NYC street

#Man charged with assaulting elderly woman on NYC street

“#Man charged with assaulting elderly woman on NYC street” A man was busted Monday for a brazen broad-daylight attack of a 70-year-old woman in the East Village last week, police said. Michael Hensley, 37, was charged with assault over the random pre-noon beating on East 14th Street near Second Avenue last Friday that left the…

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#Elderly woman beaten by stranger in NYC

#Elderly woman beaten by stranger in NYC

“#Elderly woman beaten by stranger in NYC” An unhinged man randomly beat a 70-year-old woman in a brazen broad-daylight attack in the East Village, police said. The disheveled creep hit the woman over the head with an unknown object as she stood on East 14th Street near Second Avenue around 10:40 a.m. on Friday, cops…

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#Man busted with large stash of fireworks in NYC

#Man busted with large stash of fireworks in NYC

“#Man busted with large stash of fireworks in NYC” A man was busted on July Fourth after police found a large stash of illegal fireworks inside his car in the East Village, sources said. The 31-year-old was spotted by cops allegedly handing off fireworks to another person at the corner of Avenue D and East…

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#See inside a decades-empty NYC school

#See inside a decades-empty NYC school

“#See inside a decades-empty NYC school” Usually, only ghosts and the birds get to enjoy the inside of this prime Manhattan real estate.  The East Village’s PS 64 has been empty for some two decades and the cavernous insides of the H-shaped structure at 605 E. Ninth St. have remained mostly off-limits to the public,…

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#NYC’s iconic Pyramid Club closes

#NYC’s iconic Pyramid Club closes

“#NYC’s iconic Pyramid Club closes” The end of a business is so rarely the death knell for an era. After over four decades hosting wild times, the East Village’s legendary Pyramid Club has announced that — as a result of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic — it will not reopen.  Both Nirvana and the Red Hot…

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#East Village hit hardest by NYC’s COVID-19 restaurant closures

#East Village hit hardest by NYC’s COVID-19 restaurant closures

“#East Village hit hardest by NYC’s COVID-19 restaurant closures” The pandemic has hit East Village restaurants harder than any other Big Apple neighborhood — and the neighborhood’s hard-partying reputation is to blame, sources said.  At least 55 restaurants have permanently closed in the East Village since the pandemic hit last March — more than double…

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