The Yankees lost one of their biggest—and noisiest—fans: Freddy Schuman, better known to New Yorkers as "Freddy Sez" who rallied fans with homemade signs and by banging his frying pan, passed away on Saturday at Lenox Hill Hospital. A friend told the Daily News that the 85-year-old collapsed on Friday said, "Freddy was a true Yankee legend and a No. 1 fan [who] will be missed." more ›

Last night police officers shot and killed a man in his Bronx apartment to stop him from beating his mother with a frying pan. Relatives of the 61-year-old woman had called 911 to say they were "concerned," and when police arrived at around 11 p.m. at 3055 Third Avenue, they heard the disturbance from within the apartment. The superintendent unlocked the door, but it was chained shut on the inside; through the opening, they saw an unidentified 32-year-old man standing over the injured woman, City Room reports. more ›

Macondo: Named after the fictional Colombian village in Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, this new Lower East Side restaurant gives Latin street food a gourmet twist. We stopped in for dinner Thursday night, and though they're still working out the kinks (the frozen drinks took forever, and some of the staff had no idea what they were setting down on the table) it's worth a trip for the cod fish Arepa alone. The fresh tropical fruit cocktails are quite refreshing; the frozen Avocado and Mezcal cocktail was a winner, and the Açaí and Pomegranate Rum, a sort of Brazilian tropical mojito, was almost irresistible. We'll be back for you, little mojito! 157 East Houston Street, (212) 473-9900. more ›

New York's beloved little wine, dine and party boat, The Frying Pan, has finally opened up for business after being anchored by permit problems. After they didn't open up in May or June, things were starting to look grim. Today brings good news from Grub Street, however, as they report the Pan "quietly reopened last Thursday" and now sports "a fancier covered bar area, some new antique bar stools, a central fountain, and Ping-Pong and Foosball tables." As previously reported, closing time has been moved up to the respectable hour of 1 a.m., and the boat is now docked at Pier 66. more ›

This weekend’s vibe has been officially harshed: The perpetually hassled Frying Pan will not be reopening this weekend, contrary to prior reports. The relocated party boat bar and café was mercilessly shut down last summer by the Man over some sort of uptight permit issue, and owner John Krevey says the square community is basically conspiring against him: "It's been horrible. I'm never going to convince them that an old rusty boat is something worth saving." more ›

The Frying Pan, the party boat known for its rusty charm in a sea of slick Chelsea nightclubs, hasn't invited anyone to come aboard in quite some time. Last year it moved from Pier 63, its home for a decade, to Pier 66...but never reopened due to lack of permits. more ›

- Grub Street reports that the Frying Pan rumors are true -- it will, in fact, be closing, at least at its current location. Their lease at Pier 63 has expired, but accoring to the owner's wife, there's no need for despair quite yet. "Pending recently commenced negotiations, the John J. Harvey fireboat, the Frying Pan, the kayak storage shed, and the recently opened Cafe du Soleil will tie up at Pier 66A, an old float bridge, and the Pan will serve food at another newly installed section of the park as early as next spring." more ›

THEATER: One saving grace of working in midtown is that there's plenty to see on a lunchtime or late afternoon stroll, if you don't get stampeded by the crowds. And one of the best things to see, which is also away from the worst of the congested sidewalks, are Chashama's installations of window performance art. This week and next, in the 9th Oasis festival, you can catch 20-minute works from a brilliant range of over 40 choreographers chosen by Debbie Stamos and Marc Dale; with such a prime opportunity both to play the voyeur and see the next generation of artists while you're at it, maybe you should head to midtown one day even if you don't work there. - Mallory Jensen more ›

MeFi yesterday pointed us towards one of those great 9/11 stories that was already slipping from our minds: In 1931, as the George Washington Bridge and the Empire State Building were being completed, the FDNY christened its fastest, bestest water-pumping fireboat, the John J. Harvey. Able to pump nearly 20,000 gallons per minute, the JJH was the definition of the modern fireboat ("Her output is equal to about 26 [or five alarm's worth] of land fire engines."). Sadly, as the piers around Manhattan were shuttered or repurposed, the JJH fell into disrepair. Removed from regular service in '95 and sold as surplus property in '99 she was luckily lovingly restored by her new owners. more ›

Can you believe it's just about a year since Bush and his band of Republicans invaded Gotham with their rhetoric. It was quite a time, barricades, protests, mass arrests, etc. more ›

Welcome to the weekend everyone. It's going to be NOT HUMID. So go outside and turn your a/c's off and conserve some energy before there's another blackout. more ›

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One anti-Bush group that we have a particular fondness for is Billionaires for Bush. They use humor and street theater to show how the current administration has favored the corporate elite at the expense of the rest of Americans. more ›

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