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Bellevue

  • Blogs

    January 29, 2012

    Breaking, Entering, and Boozing with the Castaways of OWS

    In a set of unfinished luxury condos, a ragtag group of 100 anarchists and anti-capitalists smoked clove cigarettes and pissed in unworking toilets at an "Occupation Party" Saturday night in Williamsburg. The cops broke up the party within an hour and sent occupiers out onto Bedford Avenue, where t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2012

    Woman Who Jumped from Williamsburg Bridge Identified, Expected to Survive

    There's a bit of news to follow up to yesterday's breaking story that a woman had jumped from the Williamsburg Bridge and landed, 20 to 30 feet below, and alive, on the windshield of an NYPD cop's Honda Ridgeline truck parked on Pitt Street. The woman has been identified as Jenna Marie Filippi, 34, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2012

    A Woman Just Jumped Off the Williamsburg Bridge [Updated]

    ​According to a tipster, a woman has just jumped off the Williamsburg Bridge, landing on an vehicle parked on Pitt Street, at Delancey. Our tipster says, "She fell onto the windshield of an SUV on Pitt Street, right across the street from the fire/police station. When I walked by about 10 minu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2011

    EMT Injured While Breaking Up Fight at Occupy Wall Street

    ​Last night at Zuccotti Park, an EMT broke his leg responding to a fight and had to be taken away to in an ambulance. This was one of four fights that required security's attention at the park between 10:30 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. The offender in the fight that injured the EMT was also taken away ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2011

    Helicopter Has Crashed in the East River Bearing Five Passengers [Updated]

    According to reports, a helicopter has gone down in the East River. NYPD divers have rescued four people and one is reportedly unconscious -- we haven't heard reports of the fifth person's status. Police spokesman Paul Browne told the AP that the private Bell 206 helicopter plunged into the river of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2011

    Claimin' I'm A Criminal: Reports From Tuesday Night's Melee At The Pete Rock/Smif-N-Wessun Show

    via YouTube​Sirens are forever wailing around town, but the sirens I heard as I walked down Houston Street Tuesday night sounded extra-menacing. And judging by the sheer number of squad cars flying past me, and the intensity with which they ran red lights and drove against traffic up Orchard S ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2011

    Rubi Morado, Kips Bay Teen, Still Missing

    Where is Rubi Morado?​It's been two weeks now, cops say, since friends and family have seen 16-year-old Rubi Morado. The Kips Bay teen, who lives at 491 First Avenue, around Bellevue, was last seen at 8:30 a.m. on Friday, March 11, leaving her home. Cops say she's 5-2, 110 pounds, and was wearing ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2011

    Dear New Yorkers: Step Away From the Subway Tracks

    Too close!​We can't take it! No more! It's gotten so we get nervous just watching you guys lean in and look for the train and, please, just step back, it's going to come when it comes and it would be better if you were alive for it. Also, dropping your wallet/phone/teddy bear/ham sandwich shou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2011

    Somali Pirates Hijack American Couple's Yacht; Man Saved After Staten Island Ferry Jump; Bronx Rapist Busted (Weekend Links)

    Jean and Scott Adam, an American couple, were taken captive by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean yesterday. The pair were sailing from Mumbai to Oman when they were captured, and "sources onshore in Somalia indicated that a well-known piracy gang from northern Somalia had captured them and was ta ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2011

    Weekend Links: U.S. Subpoenas WikiLeaks Twitter Info; Portuguese Journalist Found Dead in Midtown Hotel

    Good morning and welcome to Runnin' Scared Weekends 2.0  I'm Rosie - you might remember me as the intern that went on embarrassingly public dates and got on Dov Charney's bad side. Now I'm taking over weekends here from the venerable Joe Coscarelli. So! Let's begin. According to an Icelandic l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2010

    Michael Dion, Man Trapped Between Platform and 4 Train: Subway Horror Story of the Week

    ​The MTA is having a bad time of it. Competing for subway horror story of the week (and it's only Monday), along with the alleged stabber-jumper situation and a potential Chelsea subway rapist, we have Michael Dion, a New York actor, who faced one of our greatest commuter nightmares this weeke ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2010

    Robert Sietsema at Donatella

    This week in the Voice, Robert Sietsema has a lot of love for the pies at Donatella: "Of all the places in town making the laughable assertion that they're re-creating 'the true pie of Naples' (some even have a certificate from Verace Pizza Napoletana to prove it!), Donatella's comes closest." Sam ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2010

    Man Takes Subway Train to Face, Survives

    ​Will Rokos, a 57-year-old Manhattan man who was waiting at 14th Street at Seventh Avenue for a Number 2 train this Saturday, was hit in the head by the train when he leaned over to check on its status. Take note, train-lookers. This is now an official "What Not to Do." Rokos was flung onto th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2010

    Bike Lanes on City Streets Coming 'Soon': 1970

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. September 24, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 39 Cyclists in The City: Ride On! By Clark Whelton A thousand bicyclists left Central Park last Wednesday morning and headed down Fifth Avenue to demonstrate that New York would be a better city if more ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2010

    Air Conditioner Falls from Sky, Lands on East Villager

    How not to install your air conditioner.​Here's something we didn't even know we had to worry about: Air conditioners falling out of 6th-floor windows and ricocheting off of awnings and onto the heads of innocent passers-by. Yep. On what will go down in history as a very unlucky day for 67-yea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2010

    Science: Saying "Fuck" Makes You Feel Better...Unless You Work at the New York Times

    ​Today the New York Times Freakonomics blog points out that dropping the f-bomb, among other choice delicacies, has an upside: It's good for you! There's a new study out from Bellevue that finds that "swearing can also be used as a psychological tool in the service of helping." In fact, it may ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2010

    Illegal Immigrant's Heart Transplant is Covered. Her Rent is Not.

    ​In June, the Voice wrote about Julia Amparo-Alvarado, a 42-year-old illegal immigrant from Guatemala who faced death without a heart transplant. The mother of two was navigating a complex path of gaining insurance coverage despite her immigration status. Three weeks ago, Julia managed to get ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2010

    What's Your Favorite 3-D Movie?

    ​Every single movie nowadays seems to be in 3-D, which means you fork over an extra three bucks to strap headache-inducing glasses on your face and see oppressive animation and/or effects envelop the mind you already checked at the door. It's become such a prevalent phenomenon that if anyone ... More >>

  • News

    June 29, 2010

    An Immigrant's Heart

    To survive the ordeal of escaping Guatemala, Julia needed a big Heart. But not this big.

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2010

    Mysterious New Subway Hero Continues Grand Tradition of Subway Hero Anonymity

    ​The New York Times has a story that actually makes us a little weepy for a change (sometimes we're emotional that way), because somebody actually did something good in the midst of all the spitting on bus drivers and killing the world through corporate greed and forcing one another to drink ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2009

    Quick hits

    A pajama-clad Manhattan woman who jumped from the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday is recovering from hypothermia in Bellevue today after Police Department divers jumped from a helicopter and pulled her out of the East River. The Times has an interview with the divers -- The Arbeit Macht Frei (Work wil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2009

    Williamsburg DJ Solange Raulston Killed by Truck While Cycling

    ​Those of us who bike Nassau Avenue know the intersection at busy McGuinness Boulevard is fraught with peril and festooned with floral tributes, presumably for persons who have perished there. Solange Raulston, aka DJ Reverend Soul, who worked the Williamsburg club circuit, fatally encounter ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2009

    LaGuardia Bomb Scare Man is Peddler, Schizophrenic

    ​Early Saturday morning, a man entered LaGuardia's Terminal C with a bag containing "a set of batteries and wires attached to what looked like an electrical power strip with a toggle," says the New York Times. The Daily News says he also had "what appeared to be a detonator in his hand." Secur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2009

    Cop Car Hits Caddy, Jumps Curb at Avenue D and 5th; At Least 8 Hurt

    Around 4:15 this afternoon a patrol car speeding north on Avenue D hit a Cadillac that was turning onto the avenue from East 5th Street, jumped the curb, and hit at least eight pedestrians. The cops, three occupants of the Caddy, and some pedestrians have gone to Bellevue, and some victims are said ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2009

    SOTC Naked People Day, Act III: Apparently Those Cops in the Matt and Kim's "Lessons Learned" Video Weren't Plants

    Matt and Kim blew our minds last week with their video for "Lessons Learned," an audacious, life-affirming sequence in which the joy-rock tour horses go streaking in Times Square. The spot's tone is generally chaste--private parts were blurred, etc--but Matt and Kim are definitely naked. Thus, the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2009

    Under the Toque--Chefs and Food Sellers Band Together to Create Supply Chain

    Bravo announced the chef'testants slated to compete in the upcoming Top Chef spinoff, Top Chef Masters, which include New Yorkers Wylie Dufresne, Anita Lo, Nils Noren, Christopher Lee and Jonathan Waxman. [Eater] Christian Delouvrier of La Goulue in Bal Harbour, Miami and previously of Alain Ducas ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2009

    Fun City Returns? Rise in Quality-of-Life Crimes Seen

    We have been waiting for the great wheel of history to spin and for New York to become undesirable to outsiders again, thereby driving down rents and returning us to Fun City. Here may be a harbinger: the Post announces that "Overstretched cops are struggling to combat petty crime, according to poli ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 31, 2008

    I Guess It Wasn't Exactly a Triumph or Anything: Sam Mendes's Revolutionary Road

    In 1960, Richard Yates, thirty-four, slurred out a proposal to a twenty-year-old student he'd met at the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, in Vermont. He was on the brink of a divorce from his first wife, and on the verge of publishing his first book, Revolutionary Road. When the student, Barbara Si ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2008

    Worker Killed, Another Critical in Construction Accidents

    In 1960, Richard Yates, thirty-four, slurred out a proposal to a twenty-year-old student he'd met at the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, in Vermont. He was on the brink of a divorce from his first wife, and on the verge of publishing his first book, Revolutionary Road. When the student, Barbara Si ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2008

    In the Streets: Cab Crash, Subway Jumper, Falling Glass

    In 1960, Richard Yates, thirty-four, slurred out a proposal to a twenty-year-old student he'd met at the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, in Vermont. He was on the brink of a divorce from his first wife, and on the verge of publishing his first book, Revolutionary Road. When the student, Barbara Si ... More >>

  • News

    July 29, 2008

    Letters 7.30.08

    In 1960, Richard Yates, thirty-four, slurred out a proposal to a twenty-year-old student he'd met at the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, in Vermont. He was on the brink of a divorce from his first wife, and on the verge of publishing his first book, Revolutionary Road. When the student, Barbara Si ... More >>

  • News

    June 24, 2008

    Letters 6.25.08

    In 1960, Richard Yates, thirty-four, slurred out a proposal to a twenty-year-old student he'd met at the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, in Vermont. He was on the brink of a divorce from his first wife, and on the verge of publishing his first book, Revolutionary Road. When the student, Barbara Si ... More >>

  • News

    June 17, 2008

    A Quiet Little Death at Bellevue

    Inmate Patrick Miller didn't beat the system. It beat him.

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2008

    Pringles Can Inventor's Ashes Kept in His Beloved Tube, And Other Oddities

    Inmate Patrick Miller didn't beat the system. It beat him.

  • News

    May 9, 2006

    Letters

    Inmate Patrick Miller didn't beat the system. It beat him.

  • News

    December 27, 2005

    Meet the Artists

    Inmate Patrick Miller didn't beat the system. It beat him.

  • News

    July 26, 2005

    Songs From the Black Chair

    Ten years of listening to the city's most troubled men

  • NYC Life

    January 11, 2005

    Out of Bellevue and Alcohol-Doused

    Ten years of listening to the city's most troubled men

  • News

    March 2, 2004

    Ashcroft Terrorizes New York Doctors

    Attorney General Demands Patients' Private Abortion Records

  • NYC Life

    July 22, 2003

    Greenwich Time

    Thrifting in the West Village

  • NYC Life

    May 14, 2002

    Listings

    Thrifting in the West Village

  • News

    October 9, 2001

    When Crazy Is Normal

    Portrait of a Grieving City

  • News

    September 18, 2001

    Doctors Who Tried to Help

    Hospitals Prepare for the Worst, and Then Wait

  • News

    September 11, 2001

    The Wailing Wall

    New Yorkers Search for the Missing, One Flyer at a Time

  • News

    June 26, 2001

    Ambulance Wars

    How Private Ambulance Crews Steer Patients Away From Public Hospitals

  • News

    May 15, 2001

    Sickout

    Thousands of City Nurses Protest Staffing Levels

  • News

    May 1, 2001

    China’s Execution, Inc.

    The People’s Republic Has Long Been Suspected of Selling Organs From Prisoners. Now One New York Doctor Knows the Rumors Are True.

  • News

    December 21, 1999

    Dialysis Deals

    Private Companies Lease Space in Public Hospitals

  • News

    November 24, 1998

    The War Against Gays and Lesbians

    'The Attacks Were the Most Brutal I Encountered'

  • NYC Life

    August 18, 1998

    Bellevue Views

    Railroad apartment in tenement building

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