A Sure Way to Undermine Anti-Terrorism Efforts

Just as one controversy over alleged racism begins to settle down, the New York Police Department is drifting into trouble all over again.

While the killing of Sean Bell has attracted nationwide media coverage and drawn major figures like the Reverend Jesse Jackson to New York, a lawsuit recently filed in a Manhattan federal court Read More

SLA: ‘Club Hush’ Not So Quiet

After playing host to two stabbings and one fatal shooting this past week, 11th Avenue basement boozery “Club Hush” was stripped of its liquor license indefinitely on Friday.

The bar, which only began slinging suds and shots this past February, was charged by the State Liquor Authority with a slew of regulatory infractions that Read More

Breaking: Aircraft Crashes at 72nd and York


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The NYPD has confirmed that a small aircraft crashed into the upper stories of the Belaire, an apartment buiding at 524 East 72nd Street.

Further details are sketchy and seem to be differing from one source to another.

According to a police department spokesperson contacted by The Observer:

“We’re not Read More

A Canvas Richly Textured With Post-9/11 Questions

The line between painting and sculpture blurs when the layers of paint pile up, scratching the third dimension, protruding into our world. And there’s a kind of prose impasto, too: Layers of expository brushstroke, heaped with coats of consciousness and memory, cause literary characters to protrude, to extend into the world of the now. Ward Read More

(Ground) Breaking: The Memorial Begins…


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It’s been a few years.

But on Thursday morning, The World Trade Center Memorial Foundation and the NY/NJ Port Authority will begin construction work on the Museum and Memorial’s footings.

If you happen to have NYPD press credentials, head down at 10:15.

Click right for a rendering, Read More

Red Hook Accident Victim Dies

According to the NYPD, the woman who was struck by a van last Thursday, July 6, in Red Hook, has died. Police identified her as Janet Ramos, of Sunset Park.

Area residents have complained about increased traffic since the opening of the nearby Fairway grocery store in May. Witnesses said the van that struck Ramos Read More

D.O.T. Responds to Red Hook Accident


Firefighters clean blood off the street.

We’ve gotten off the phone with a spokesperson from the D.O.T. She said that the department is waiting until the fall before conducting any traffic study on Van Brunt Street. According to the spokesperson, it’s necessary to wait a few months for traffic patterns to emerge so that Read More