By Carol Tannenhauser
Monday, January 23, 2023
A mix of rain and snow. High 40 degrees.
Notices
Our calendar has lots of local events! Click on the link or the lady in the upper righthand corner to look.
Here are some of the nearly 100 captions submitted by readers for last week’s amazing raccoon photograph (above), taken by Allan Ripp:
Help! I can’t hold this up much longer…Help! I’ve risen and I can’t get down…She said swallowing those magnets wouldn’t do anything!…I may have taken one too many gummies…I was told there was going to be garbage! Nobody said anything about all these rats…Not having exact change, Rocky devised an alternate means of catching the M10…We building inspectors take our job seriously…Never should have followed that advice I found in Gideon’s bible…Racked Coon…I. HATE. SUPERGLUE….I’m not leaving until Artie’s re-opens !!!!
And here’s a link to the greatest raccoon song ever written.
The Community Board 7 joint Parks and Transportation Committees meeting is being held on Zoom tonight, Monday, January 23, at 6:30 p.m. It will cover concerns related to the operation of the new Gilder Center at the American Museum of Natural History, scheduled to open on February 17. Click here to register. (Thanks to the UWS Coalition for the tip.)
News
Last week, we ran a story about the dangers of gas stoves. The New York Times confirmed “[m]ounting evidence of the potential health risks of gas stoves, including a link to childhood asthma.” But the Times also quoted a Harvard expert who said, “No one should freak out about this news.” Click here for a few simple tips to mitigate the potential health risks of gas stoves.
Spoiler Alert! Someone new and exciting is joining the cast of Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building, the mystery-comedy series set on the Upper West Side, starring Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez, according to the Daily News. Don’t click here if you want to be surprised!
Should the NYPD release graphic videos of crimes being committed to the media and, thus, to the public? Top cops are debating the issue, the Daily News reported. Some say the violence is “sensationalism,” adding to the perception of the dangerousness of New York City, deterring visitors, and even traumatizing viewers. Others argue the violence gets more clicks and visibility.
Two pieces of real estate are for sale on W. 73rd Street. Between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue is a townhouse offering “opulence in this world — and a longtime relationship with the otherworldly.” The American Society for Psychical Research is selling its headquarters for $15 million, the New York Post reported. Check out the interior photographs! Also check out the studio on 73rd and West End Avenue, featured in Curbed, once a room in the mansion of Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant. “The main living area is about 350 grand square feet; the walls are striped with embedded columns and topped with crown moldings, not to mention the functional marble fountain as large as an armchair.” Price: $400,000.
Have a great week, and don’t forget to look up!
“Some say the violence is “sensationalism,” adding to the perception of the dangerousness of New York City, deterring visitors, and even traumatizing viewers.”
I agree that there is too much sensationalism. People pick up the idea that NYC or the USW is a crime-ridden, chaotic hellhole – a picture way out of synch with day to day life here.
in the last several days, a woman was murdered in her apartment on West 83rd Street and there was a homicide at the 96th Street subway station. Perhaps that may be why “people pick up the idea that NYC or the USW [sic] is a crime-ridden chaotic hellhole.”
Why would something as important as crime be cancelled/removed from the press? Seems to me that it’s important for people to see it, so that maybe (a) they can help solve the crime and (b) they can change their voting patterns as needed.
There was a time when people wanted more transparency from our government.
I just wanna know if the raccoon got down from there!!!
Why would they want it to be known, for example, that in their harebrained schemes a violent, recidivist murderer was placed on a post-release work program in the middle of a busy residential neighborhood across from several schools and amidst vulnerable seniors?
Apparently, all the jobs at distant granite quarries, deep-sea oil rigs, vast uninhabited farms and lumber fields are taken.
But the raccoon…?
They turned Mrs. Grant’s reception room in a studio apt.? But wow, what a reception room! What great photos in Curbed!
I was always taken by the great love the Grants had for each other; US Grant of course had to leave her for extensive periods during the war and even before, when he was stationed out west, and those were the periods during which he might take to drink (though never before or during a battle) due to intense loneliness for his wife and family, or so I’ve read.
Good comments from our neighbors regarding the crime photos.
On a different note, I’m very excited about All The Murders In The Building! Very nice surprise!
Thanks for the link to Rocky Raccoon–that’s when they used to write good music 🙂
Like NYC/NYS don’t have bigger things to worry about…all the hoopla about gas stoves in nonsense…just another way to force the climate change agenda.
What is the climate change “agenda”? Always love it when people who won’t be around to feel the full effects of climate change scold us for wanting a better future.
Gotta love the presumptuousness of 1) assuming someone else’s age, 2) overestimating your own longevity, 3) pretending to understand / know the possible “full effects” in the future of a very complex system.
And you insist on being taken seriously?
Completely agree. The reference to NY Times confirming the danger of gas stoves is ridiculous. NY Times is just a paper, and a biased one like most. It is not a scientific peer-reviewed article.
Two lovely pieces of real estate on West 73rd Street.
“lovely” real estate?.Thank you..Only if you are RICH..very rich..The rest of us NYers like eggs SCRAMBLE