March 15, 2007
Wild Greenwich Village Shootout Leaves Two Volunteer NYPD Cops Dead
Dated: March 14, 2007
SOURCE: NY1
Two NYPD auxiliary police officers were shot and killed by a heavily-armed gunman in a volley of gunfire on the streets of Greenwich Village around nine o'clock Wednesday night, after the suspect had fatally shot a restaurant employee.
Investigators say the volunteer officers – Nicholas Pekearo and Yevgeniy 'Eugene' Marshalik – as well as responding officers from the sixth precinct began chasing the suspect after he fired 15 shots at an employee at De Marco's pizzeria on West Houston Street near Macdougal, killing 35-year-old Alfredo Romaro.
The suspect, identified as 32-year-old David Gavin, took off running down several streets that were crowded with people. As armed officers from the sixth precinct closed in, the unarmed auxiliary officers caught up with Gavin at Sullivan Street, where witnesses say he walked across the street and shot the unarmed uniformed men.
"The policemen were over there standing in the middle of the street like this, with sparks flying and everything. It was crazy,” said a witness.
Police then chased Gavin to Bleecker where they killed him in a gun battle that sent bullets flying a block away.
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February 10, 2006
Rapist Disguised As Cop Kidnaps Girl ... Right Outside My Apartment Building! WTF?
Fake Cop Kidnaps Med Student
by Jen Chung
Dated February 8, 2006
SOURCE: The Gothamist
A woman who had just picked up coffee from an East Village Dunkin' Donuts [on 2nd Ave. by 11st Street - AA] was forced into a car by a man posing as a police officer. She managed to escape when police pulled over Richard Padilla's car - he had cut off their car at 119th Street and 2nd Avenue - yelling that he had raped her. Padilla had told the woman he had a gun and kept her captive in his car from 6AM - 8:30AM Monday morning as he drove to a number of spots to sexually assault her. While he was charged with kidnapping, committing a criminal sexual act, sexual abuse and criminal possession of marijuana, Padilla was also wearing a sweater that the letters "NYSP" - New York State Police. The lawyer for Padilla, who was convicted to sexual assault in 1987, said, "He hasn't been arrested for 19 years. He's entitled to some bail." - alas, he was not. [Good. I hope they execute him. - AA]
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August 30, 2005
Howl! Festival pictures
CLICK HERE FOR A FEW PICTURES FROM THE FESTIVAL.
Posted by andrewanissi at 07:23 PM
August 21, 2005
The Howl Festival, in the Wich of the East
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August 11, 2005
CBGB wins round in court
BY GLENN GAMBOA
STAFF WRITER
August 11, 2005
CBGB's battle to stay alive received a major boost yesterday, as Manhattan Civil Court Judge Joan M. Kenney ruled that it does not owe its landlord, the Bowery Residents' Committee, any back rent and declined a request to evict the club. However, the club's future is still uncertain until the BRC grants it a new lease.
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August 07, 2005
History of the Green Wich, PART II: GREENWICH VILLAGE IS BORN
( Originally Published in the early 1900's, Antiques Digest)
"God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb down Greenwich ways"
- THOMAS JANVIBR.
DID you know that " Greenwich Village" is tautology? That region known affectionately as " Our Village " is Greenwich, pure and simple, and here is the " why " of that statement.
The word wich is derived from the Saxon wick, and originally had birth in the Latin vicus, which means village. Hence, Greenwich means simply the Green Village, and was evidently a term describing one of the first small country hamlets on Manhattan. Captain Sir Peter Warren, on whom be peace and benedictions, is usually given the credit of having given Greenwich its name, the historians insisting that it was the name of his own estate, and simply got stretched to take in the surrounding country-side. This seems rather a stupid theory. The Warrens were undoubtedly among the earliest representative residents in the little country resort, but by no stretch of imagination could any private estate, however ample or important, be called a village. But Greenwich was the third name to be applied to this particular locality.
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History of the Green Wich, PART I: The Dutch Settle Manhattan
( Originally Published in the 1930's, Antiques Digest)
LIFE is a progress in misapprehensions; history, a process of correcting some misapprehensions and creating others for good measure.
Verrazzano, as we have seen, took slight interest in the land he glimpsed here, beyond surmising that there might be minerals in its rocks. Hudson saw in Manhattan only a pleasant shore bordering a strait opening into an illusory ocean beyond. But the latter did report the presence of fur-bearing animals, whose skins could be bought with "trinkets and stuffs of the coarsest kinds." This was enough to rouse the interest of shrewd Dutchmen in the region, for the European market absorbed furs endlessly.
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July 05, 2005
Man Falls Beneath Third Subway Rail at Union Square
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Posted by andrewanissi at 11:47 PM
June 07, 2005
Man fatally shot in apartment, in the Wich of the East
by Andrew A. Anissi
On Sunday, May 22, 2005 at about 6 p.m., Christopher Manley, a 33-year-old man former con, was shot dead, execution style in the back of the head in the doorway of his apartment in Manhattan's Wich of the East. FYI: The Wich of the East is the area of Green Wich Village between 14th Street and Houston, and east of 4th Avenue.
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