In the News: Man scales crane at 45 Park Place
MAN SCALES CRANE AT 45 PARK PLACE
The Post reports that a 20-year-old man was arrested on Sunday after scaling the crane at 45 Park Place on XXXX. (Thanks to J. for sending the story — I missed it.) “Isaiah Washington, 20, was charged with reckless endangerment and criminal trespassing shortly before 8:30 a.m. at 45 Park Place, the NYPD said. Hair-raising photos at the scene show the high-climbing suspect near the top of the crane.”
FIDI STARTS AT CHAMBERS STREET?
In a not very newsy story, The Times traces the Financial District’s residential transformation, noting that there were 13,700 residents there in 1990 and 66,000 now (which makes it three times the size of Tribeca, which does not fully compute). It mentions the conversions going on at One Wall, 160 Water, 90 William and 4 New York Plaza. The story also define Fidi as bounded by Chambers Street and the Brooklyn Bridge to the north, which actually *is* news to me.
$1 BILLION OF KNOCK-OFFS SEIZED
NYPD and Homeland Security raided storage units and other locations and seized $1 billion of counterfeit goods after monitoring the warehouses for the past year, according to NBC News. Federal authorities said it was the largest-ever seizure of counterfeit goods, consisting of handbags, shoes and other luxury merchandise. valued at more than $1 billion. Two people were charged. The location of the storage units was not named in the story.
A DECADE OF THE TRIBECA GALLERY DISTRICT
ArtNews traces the migration of galleries to Tribeca starting with Postmasters in 2013 (though R & Co was way ahead of that!). “Over the last several months, a steady stream of Chelsea galleries has hitched their wagons and migrated south to Tribeca, either to expand their presence in the neighborhood or, in some cases, uprooting altogether for downtown.”
