Life in and around Hell’s Kitchen, NYC
Yesterday morning at around 3am a driver crashed on the West Side Highway, and was killed after being thrown from their car.
NY Daily News has photos (nothing graphic):
Apparently the driver misjudged his turn onto W 56th St, and went over the median strip. That combined with the fact that they were speeding led to the fatality. No one else was injured.
The scaffolding outside the Clinton Towers on 11th Ave has been a depressing eyesore for a while now, and extended all the way out to the street across the semi-plaza area, pretty much creating a dark, uninviting cave. As of this week, it’s back to its former glory!
The florist didn’t survive unfortunately, but the Westside Market Place is still going, and the opening up of the area should help make the store much more inviting.
Lots of people out in the sun at DeWitt Clinton Park today:
Here’s something you probably won’t even notice: the maps signage on the side of the Citibike dock got updated today:
The big change seems to be that it’s now upside-down, with Central Park at the bottom and Times Square, etc, at the top. Makes sense considering there’s no docks past 60th St.
Slow news day.
Outside The Dillon this afternoon:
Meanwhile, over on 8th Ave:
Crews have been making progress on the new NYPD location in the Mercedes House. The new place takes up a wide stretch along W 53rd St, with a very modern exterior:
Still lots of work to do on the interior though:
Way back in 2011, DNAinfo reported that this might be incoming – although it was close to being cancelled – and apparently the plan is for it to serve as the new horse stables for the department. The horses will be living right next door to the state-of-the-art Mercedes-Benz dealership, which will make for a funny contrast.
The HBO series “Girls” took over half of Restaurant Row today, filming in and around a few spots in there.
The trucks were set up all down the block on W 46th St, and were filming inside Lattanzi and O’Flaherty’s, so expect to see them on TV soon!
We’ve really dropped the ball on this one! We mentioned the new bike store on 10th Ave earlier this week, then followed up with the name of the store. Now, turns out this is actually the bike store on 9th Ave’s new location!
The building is the fairly unique yellow one on the corner of 47th & 9th, which has had the faded bike paintings along the wall forever, so it’ll be interesting to see what happens to them.
Another victim of The Never-Ending Roadwork™ on 9th Ave:
On 9th Ave today:
Yesterday we noticed the incoming bike store on 10th Ave, but weren’t sure of the name. Turns out they’ve put it on the door:
Danny’s Cycles have a couple of stores throughout NY state, including two in the city, and this outpost marks their expansion into the west side of Manhattan.
Wet cement: the greatest test of society’s self control.
Looks like Citibike hasn’t killed independent bike shops just yet: a new bike shop is opening up on 10th Ave at 46th St in the ground floor of the new-ish apartment building there.
Based on the signage, it looks like it might be a branch of Trek Bicycle Stores, a bike store group that are currently contained to the midwest. The posters up for the “Go By Bike Month” look like the same campaign that group’s run in the past, and their logo is on it, so it’s probably a safe bet that this could be their New York outpost.
Either that, or they’re just really excited to be stocking that brand of bike.