In the News: J&R Way

••• DNAinfo checks in with Nirvana International, which has rebounded after the break-in last December. Owner Amit “Sharma said police have made some progress on the case, but he could not give any details.”

••• “If you co-name it, they will come. That’s what electronics giant J&R Music and Computer World is hoping will happen on Park Row, between Beekman and Ann streets in lower Manhattan, which the retailer wants the city to co-name J&R Way to boost sales and keep its business afloat. ‘Six hundred jobs are dependent on this,’ store spokesman Abe Brown last week told a Community Board 1 committee, apparently without bursting into giggles.” The committee rejected it, but J&R will try its luck with the City Council anyway. (New York Post)

••• Broadsheet Daily check in with Poets House (its annual showcase opens this week) and Friends of Bogardus Garden (which has begun hosting events, sponsored by local businesses).

••• “On a micro-level, though, local gyms have long hoped that the passage of a bill [allowing mixed martial arts in New York] could bolster their bottom lines. Peggy Chau, who operates Fighthouse in Tribeca [inside Tribeca Health & Fitness], says legalization would create a ‘domino effect.’ An event at Madison Square Garden would draw increased attention to the U.F.C., she says, which would lead to greater interest in mixed martial arts classes at all levels.” (New York Times)

••• Terroir is opening an outpost in Murray Hill, which either means Murray Hill is sort or cool or…. (Grub Street)

••• “Three thousand flags bearing the names of 9/11 victims will go on display in Battery Park this September. Called the NYC Memorial Field, the five-day project aims to give all New Yorkers who lived through the events of 9/11 a public place to gather and pay respects to those who were killed that day, during the 10th anniversary.” (DNAinfo)

 

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