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Eli Zabar may have shut down one potential competitor, but he can’t stop the inevitable march towards freedom:

High-end grocer Eli Zabar may have buried one proposed Upper East Side greenmarket, but another has sprung up only blocks away.

A Community Board 8 subcommittee voted 4-0 late Thursday to approve placement of a new greenmarket — which brings regional farmers and their produce to city dwellers — on 92nd Street and First Avenue.

Last month Zabar helped squash plans for a market on East 82nd Street and Madison Avenue because it would have provided too close competition for his stores E.A.T. on Madison Avenue and 80th Street, and Eli’s on Third Avenue and 80th.

At the latest meeting, Zabar was one of the voices against the new market, because of its proximity to one of his stores.

Posted: June 12th, 2006 | Filed under: Consumer Issues, Huzzah!, Manhattan

Ladies And Gentlemen, He Got Him!

A paroled convict accused of mugging Manhattan deliverymen was caught when a deliveryman “turned the tables” and beat him up:

An armed parolee, believed to have robbed at least four food deliverymen in Manhattan, got his just desserts when his latest victim turned the tables and beat him to a pulp, cops said yesterday.

Charles Jones — on parole for robbery — was busted near the West Side tennis courts in Central Park when he tried to run from 24-year-old pizza deliveryman Celiviano DeJesus, who pummeled him until cops arrived.

Instead of being hauled off to jail, Jones was brought to a local hospital with a broken nose. He was charged only with the latest stickup because his face was too disfigured to place him in a lineup.

“I was furious, I was just so angry he attacked me, I attacked him back,” said battered hero DeJesus who was sporting two black eyes.

On Tuesday evening, DeJesus made a delivery for Daniello’s Pizzeria on 96th Street to a building on West 93rd Street.

Jones met him in the lobby, told him he had the money in his apartment and they got on the elevator, DeJesus said.

“He said give me your money, then he hit me in the face with a metal rod,” DeJesus said.

But instead of forking over $50, a lasagna platter and a Sprite, DeJesus served up a knuckle sandwich.

Posted: June 1st, 2006 | Filed under: Huzzah!, Law & Order

Who Knew?

This explains why New York seemed to have so few outdoor heaters, period:

The much-too-short sidewalk-cafe season is about to be extended under new rules that would, for the first time, allow city restaurants to install outdoor heaters, The Post has learned.

After more than a year of discussions with the restaurant industry, the Department of Consumer Affairs is preparing regulations that would make nonpropane heaters legal at unenclosed cafes, officials said.

Sidewalk cafes are huge profit centers for restaurant owners squeezed by high rents.

Dina Improta, a spokeswoman for Consumer Affairs Commissioner Jonathan Mintz, confirmed that the agency plans to amend its rules for sidewalk heaters.

Posted: May 2nd, 2006 | Filed under: Consumer Issues, Huzzah!

You Can’t Stop Him, You Can Only Hope For A Bloop Single Or A Walk Off Of Him

The Daily News notes that a Queens high school baseball player has made baseball history by throwing two perfect games in a row, and is working on his third straight perfect game today:

A 17-year-old Bayside High School junior has rewritten baseball history, throwing back-to-back perfect games — a feat that has never been matched in the majors, minors or even at the high school level.

“It was a dream,” Anthony Velazquez said on a recent morning outside his 8 a.m. physical education class in Queens. “I never expected to throw one and now I’ve thrown two.”

The first perfect game was on April 11, when he shut down John Bowne High School, 2-0, striking out 11 in seven innings.

. . .

Bayside didn’t play again until two weeks later but Anthony showed no rust.

He whiffed 16 Flushing High batters en route to a 10-0 rout. He also went 2-for-4 in the leadoff spot with two stolen bases. The game was called after six innings because of the mercy rule.

“My whole body went numb,” Anthony said of Tuesday’s win. “Then everybody from my team jumped on me.”

Everyone knew he had been part of something special — but few knew just how special.

According to the National Federation of State High School Associations, no high school pitcher has ever thrown consecutive perfect games — allowing no hits, walks or errors. Only two have managed to throw two perfect games in their entire high school careers.

Posted: May 1st, 2006 | Filed under: Huzzah!, Queens, Sports

Child Molesters, Terrorists And Slum Lords

Do slumlords get the fabled child-molester treatment in jail? A Brooklyn slumlord soon will find out when he spends 12 days locked up:

In an extremely rare penalty for a landlord, Olufemi Falade will be sent to the slammer for failing to repair hundreds of violations in his buildings — including vermin infestations, exposed wires and leaking pipes — the city announced yesterday outside one of his violation-laden properties in Flatbush.

“In just 12 buildings he owns, there are more than 1,800 violations of the city’s housing and maintenance codes,” said Housing Preservation and Development Commissioner Shaun Donovan.

“This owner is perhaps one of the most egregious examples we’ve seen citywide of flouting the law and forcing his residents to live in horrible conditions.”

And when the commissioner announced the jail time — adding that Falade is one of only four landlords locked up for refusing to correct building violations in the last three years — tenants who pay upward of $700 a month for their one-bedroom apartments broke into applause.

“We have to live a whole winter with no hot water,” fumed former tenant Victoria Rivera, 25, who left her mother’s apartment in the 27-unit building last August. “We have to look up . . . and see broken ceilings — bathrooms not running.”

Her mother, Evelyn, who still lives in the building, added, “He deserves every bit of what he gets.”

Posted: April 19th, 2006 | Filed under: Huzzah!
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