Results tagged “diamonddistrict”

Have really fake-looking beard, will rob: Surveillance footage has emerged of two men who disguised themselves as Hasidic Jews to rob a Diamond District jewelry importer on New Year's Eve afternoon.

There's nothing like using a sledgehammer to break into the window of a Diamond District jewelry store. And that's what a group of robbers did at the Diamond Exchange on 47th Street and Sixth Avenue. A guard told the Daily News, "They hit the window where all the big pieces are."

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a stabbing at Coney Island Hospital in Brooklyn, another stabbing at 131st St. and 9th Ave. in Queens, and a third stabbing on West 167th St. in the Bronx.
• Three men sprayed mace in the face of a Diamond District jeweler at 1 p.m. last Wednesday in the Rockefeller Center subway station and grabbed his bag containing three spools of gold wire worth $115,000.
• Subwayblogger.com looks at MSNBC's list of the ten easiest airports to get to in the country and notices that according to the network, the AirTrain to JFK is free of charge to passengers. It's actually $5.
• NY1 looks at the progress being made on the new South Ferry Terminal being built for the 1 line. Riders will be able to transfer to the R/W lines at the new station, which will be cooled during the summer.
• The Bush administration declined to let New York expand its children's health insurance program to include an additional 70,000 kids, or families of four making up to $82,600.
• The Gowanus Lounge receives a picture and description of a rolling greenhouse in Park Slope.
• For the adventurous digital photographer, here's a short tutorial on the relatively simple process of how to do time-lapse photography.
• A cop's two pistols disappeared from a locker at Williamsburg's 90th Precinct house. Experiencing some problems at home, the officer had elected to have them vouchered at work to avoid any accusations of threatening someone with a firearm.

Did you see CBS 2 Investigates: Too Good For Gridlock? The too-good-for-gridlock offender is Isaac Heschel, a diamond dealer who is also a rabbi and volunteers time as a chaplain to the MTA and Port Authority Police. Heschel frequently uses sirens and lights in his Crown Victoria, but neither agency gave him sirens or lights, meaning that Heschel pimped the car out for emergency fun himself.

Gothamist friend and occasional Opinionist Andrew Bast has recently pulled off a nice relaunch of his site, The New York Inquirer ("We don't break the news; we put it back together") and in the process put back together some interesting stuff worth checking out. This week, for instance, has focused pretty much exclusively on the diamond trade including a five-part series on the darker side of 47th Street, one of the many hearts of the diamond trade.

- And tomorrow is a big day: There's the Mermaid Parade tomorrow afternoon and the Gothamist-A Hamburger Today Burger Party at Water Taxi Beach in the evening!

Yesterday Gawker had some amusing pictures of people scrounging around for little gold pellets that had been dropped on 5th Avenue near 47th Street. The pellets were about the size of BBs, and it looked like they had been dropped in a big dirty puddle just off the sidewalk. Sadly, it turns out that in New York, the streets are not paved in gold balls. The Post picks up the story: