A small rowboat capsized in the Hudson River on the afternoon of Tues., June 5, stranding seven people who had to be rescued. No one was seriously hurt, although one person was taken to the hospital with minor injuries, according to the F.D.N.Y.
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Patrons of Nancy Whisky Pub in Tribeca celebrated Memorial Day with a makeshift pool party on Lispenard Street.
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Musicians and spoken-word artists performed in memory of the late soldier Danny Chen at Pace University High School on Thurs., May 24. Chen’s mother Su Zhen Chen (top left) chokes up while addressing the crowd, her son’s photo looming in the background. – Downtown Express photos by Aline Reynolds
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This dog tried his paws at piano on Memorial Day at Little Italy’s Mulberry Street Mall, which runs on weekends until Labor Day.
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[media-credit name="Downtown Express photo by Milo Hess" align="aligncenter" width="600"][/media-credit] Saturday, May 12 featured annual spring celebrations in both Duane Park and Bogardus Garden Plaza.
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[media-credit name="Downtown Express photo by Milo Hess" align="aligncenter" width="600"][/media-credit] Families attending the 11th Annual Tribeca Family Festival Street Fair, hosted by the Tribeca Film Festival, were treated to an aerial array of activity along Greenwich Street on Saturday.
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[media-credit name="Photo by Q. Sakamaki " align="aligncenter" width="600"][/media-credit] Hoping to solve the mystery of 6-year-old Etan Patz’s disappearance from Soho 33 years ago while on his way to catch the school bus, the F.B.I. and police removed a concrete floor, dirt and drywall from a basement at 127B Prince St. near Wooster St. A cadaver [...]
Continue reading …[media-credit name="Downtown Express photos by Terese Loeb Kreuzer" align="aligncenter" width="600"][/media-credit]Judging by the New Amsterdam Market crowd when it opened on Sunday, April 29 for the 2012 season, shoppers had been hard-pressed to find fresh, local food during the winter and couldn’t wait to get their hands on it. The weekly market on South Street between Beekman [...]
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[media-credit name="Photo courtesy of Assemblyman Sheldon Silver’s office " align="aligncenter" width="600"][/media-credit] On Monday the Spruce Street School / P.S. 397 held a special tour celebrating its first year in their new building. Last year the school incubated at the Tweed Courthouse. New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (left) was instrumental in getting the new [...]
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[media-credit name="Photo by Tequila Minsky " align="aligncenter" width="600"][/media-credit] N.Y.U. 4 Occupy Wall Street members protested outside Bobst Library last Thursday, calling for N.Y.U. to cut financial ties with JP Morgan Chase and evict its Chase bank branch from its property. The group delivered a letter to John Sexton two weeks earlier asking him to sever [...]
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