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The Build a Block meeting for Sector Boy will be held on Tuesday, March 18th, at 6:30 PM. This meeting will focus on crime trends, quality of life issues, and any other questions or concerns you may have.

Please feel free to invite any neighbors or friends who may be interested in attending. If there are specific topics you would like to discuss in more depth, please reach out to PO Alvin Farciert in advance via phone, text, or email so that they can be properly addressed.

See the image here for further details, including PO Farciert’s contact information below.

PO Alvin Farciert

Neighborhood Coordination Officer | Sector Boy

NYPD 6th Precinct

233 West 10 Street, New York, NY 10014

(212) 741-4811 | Precinct

(917) 593 9567 || Cell

Alvin.Farciert@nypd.org | E-mail

Next week (January 14 to January 18), material and equipment deliveries and installation work will continue on all floors inside the building as well as roof work. Additionally we will begin work on the new sidewalks around the building.

The following week (January 21 to January 25), Material and equipment deliveries and installation work will continue on all floors and roofs as well as sidewalk work. We will begin dismantling the sidewalk shed on 14th street at the end of the month.

This weekend the site will be open on Saturday, January 12th for interior and superstructure related activities between the work hours of 7AM and 5PM as permitted by the City.

One of new stores moving into the old Spice space at University and 10th will be Recess, which promises coffee, chocolate, frozen yougurt, and a new cafe paradigm. Should be interesting.

Here’s a groovy photo of a groovy chick planting flowers in Union Square on the first Earth Day, 40 years ago. Funny to think she’s over 60 years old now.

NYU, which will lease it back to Forbes for five years before moving in.

A new bar-restaurant is now open at the Hyatt Union Square

At Bowery Road, a neighborhood American restaurant, Chef Ron Rosselli’s flavorful and thoughtfully prepared dishes are inspired by long relationships with local farmers and purveyors and loaded with seasonal produce from the Union Square Greenmarket. The restaurant takes its name from its location on 4th Avenue, which was formerly called Bowery Road when it served as the pathway to Peter Stuyvesant’s farm.

Located directly off the lobby, Bowery Road is open from 7am-11pm for breakfast, lunch, dinner and weekend brunch.
Rosselli has also worked at Locanda Verde and The Standard Grill.

The hotel now also sports The Library of Distilled Spirits, which: “pays tribute to liquor makers and their craft with over 700 bottles made around the world. Explore the collection neat, or shaken and stirred into more than 150 classic cocktails. Barkeepers and encyclopedic volumes of single spirits will help you choose.”

The Fourth and Singl, the hotel’s two dining-drinking options, have closed. The two new establishments are operated by APICII, “a multi-concept restaurant company.”