Around noon today, a woman pushing a stroller stepped out of a train at the Columbus Circle station, before stepping back in leaving the stroller on the platform, with a 6 or 7 month old girl inside. More details from the NY Times:
On Monday evening, the police were still trying to determine the identities of the abandoned baby girl and the woman who had left her. They released pictures of the child sitting in a red and white polka-dot stroller and asked for the public’s help in identifying her.
The baby was unharmed and in stable condition at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center on Monday night.
She was in the custody of the city’s Administration for Children’s Services awaiting placement, a spokesman for the agency said.
The woman who left the child on the platform appeared to be in her 20s or 30s, and was wearing a yellow short-sleeve blouse. She was riding a northbound No. 1 train.
Since the station is one of the busiest stations in the system, the child was fortunately found quickly and cared for until authorities arrive. The NYPD are asking for help identifying the child, and have released this photo of her:
Word has come in that Lucky Cheng’s is closing for good. An employee confirms that their last show will be tomorrow night.
Calls to the club go unanswered, but the employee, who asks to remain anonymous, cites the reason for the closure: “Ridiculously high rent + decline in business = demise.”
The club moved into their spot on W 52nd St just east of 8th Ave in 2012, after two decades in the East Village. Their last night coincides with Pride Week, so you can celebrate and say farewell.
Some sad news from earlier this week: on Monday afternoon a construction worker fell to his death from a building on W 33rd St between 9th&10th Aves, as the Post reports:
Cops say the man was working 12 stories above ground level at 434 West 33rd Street around 3:30 p.m.
The construction worker fell to the second story, where he landed on scaffolding, authorities said.
The man was rushed to Bellevue Hospital, where he was pronounced DOA, according to authorities.
Very sad to hear. And making it even more troubling is how long it apparently took crews to remove the worker’s body from the site, according to commenters on CBSNY’s article on the incident. Our condolences to the man’s family…
Continuing what must be a new trend, a new foreign-railway-station-named spot is coming soon. Nippori, a Japanese restaurant, is opening soon. Seemingly pulling the name from a station in Japan, the place is opening up slightly outside our usual area – just east of 8th Ave. Close enough…
Way back when, the place used to be a dry cleaning/laundry spot, but as we all know nobody wants that anymore… Anyway, with the Gershwin directly across the road, I’m sure the new place will do well with the post-theatre crowds.
Catching up on some news from the past few weeks, Curbed is reporting on new details have been released about Manhattan West, the next megadevelopment we can look forward to after we move on from Hudson Yards.
The development, which will bring two 65-story office towers, along with a 60-story residential tower – all giant walls of glass, of course… – to the area between W 31nd&33rd St from 9th to Dyer Aves, have announced the latest information on the open space. Manhattan West’s plaza will be 2.11 acres– almost double the required amount by the city and a big step up from their initially-announced 1.5 acres – which will connect the various streets surrounding the development.
While most of the plaza looks like it’ll be paved, there’s fortunately a decent amount of greenery spread throughout it from the renderings. It’ll also probably be filled with your usual cafés, stores, etc…
Anyway, still years to go on the development, but it’s good to see a lot more open space coming to an area overflowing post offices, trains, and stadiums. Head over to Curbed for more on the development.
Workers were out today loading the Citibike docks along Broadway north of Times Square onto trucks, leaving a outlines along the bike lanes where they used to be. It looks like this is the start of preparations for the big New Years Eve celebrations…I guess having thousands of people swarming isn’t good for the bikes, who would’ve thought…
In other Citibike-New-Years news, they installed a few of the bikes in Times Square today hooked up to a generator, so you can contribute a tiny, tiny fraction of the electricity the ball will use on the night. There was also the whole Good Riddance Day thing going on, but that’s something else entirely…
