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Seen & Heard: Wok in Duane
ZUTTO HAS NAMED ITS NEW SPACE…
“Wok in Duane” is the name for the Zutto outlet (thanks to Sonia Stock for the photo) that will be an Asian fusion spot serving everything *but* Japanese. Their tag line: “Asian flavors that just wok.” Puns aside, really looking forward to this. They are hoping for a summer opening a July 1 opening and have their liquor license application in with CB1 this month. See more here.
LET’S GO KNICKS
A pendant from decades back, as worn by one of the partners at Lucia Pizza and Lucia Alimentari, Richie Quarto. It was his father’s and he’s had it on since he was 7.
GARBAGE AT CANAL AND CHURCH
I have long lamented the garbage piling up around the USPS at Canal — that stretch of sidewalk, which is just a brick wall, is always a mess. Then a neighbor sent this video from last night and suggested that it’s the result of the bag and pot sellers across the street on the east side — and that makes a lot of sense. (I always thought it was because the USPS never swept its sidewalk.) It really is gross. If the cops aren’t going to shut down the sellers, then maybe we need bigger or more trash cans on that side…
BIG GUNS AT CHAMBERS AND WEST BROADWAY
I finally stopped to ask why the cops come packing to the subway entrance at Chambers and West Broadway. It’s the emergency response team, and they just rotate to different stations downtown, all day and all week. They even had a canine officer out today.
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The trash and smell is definitely from the bag sellers that huddle across the street from USPS. I’ve witnessed so much filth from them – recklessly throwing their trash on the street to public urination including on the USPS trucks. Why can’t the city do something permanent about it. It’s such a nuisance.
somebody uses the west side of that block and the block south as their personal urinal. Do not walk there in the morning.
Yes, I’ve also witnessed them peeing on the walls, the postal service trucks, and random cars. I confronted one once and he said “Where am I supposed to do it? Do you want me to do it on your door instead?” Disgusting.
The audio on this video is shameful and does nothing to address the garbage left behind by sellers and buyers in the area. Where are the public toilets in this area that allows anyone including again sellers, buyers, residents, tourists to use?
Our building has been fined more than once for a single piece of litter in front of it. One time the litter was not even on the sidewalk, but in the street. Our super comes every day to clean, but he cannot be there every minute. Yet the post office looks like a garbage dump and nothing is done.
Because the sanitation police know that the residential buildings in Tribeca, etc. are not going to waste their time going to court to fight a $100 ticket. Easy money and they reach their monthly quota.
Regarding the litter: Maybe if enough of us report this, things would change? That may be delusional, but I will try:
“You can report an area where people repeatedly litter.”
https://portal.311.nyc.gov/article/?kanumber=KA-01673
I reported the litter around the post office to 311. To my pleasant surprise, today when I walked by the area was all cleaned up. Coincidence?
I’m sure it will be trashed again soon enough though. There needs to be consistent cleaning (and enforcement against the litterbugs).
Update: I walked by there yesterday, and it’s completely trashed again. Whole area looks like a garbage dump. A disgrace for an official building, the post office, to allow its exterior condition to remain in such perpetually filthy conditions.
In all the mountains of campaign literature I’m getting not one candidate for mayor or city council or borough president has mentioned the desperate need for public restrooms. Every major city in the world seems to have them. Shame on us.
I wrote a letter to Councilman Marte sometime back noting the same issue on Canal Street re: garbage, public urination, vendors blocking the sidewalk for pedestrians, and general quality of life matters. Got ZERO response from his office.