Heroes, Sky Fall & Cool Kids

W42ST Daily — 9/3/2020

The trophies are ready (thanks Talented Tania!), the nameplates are being engraved, and the certificates are being printed. We’ll not let the pandemic delay the W42ST Best of awards any longer. Labor Day week seems the ideal time to give a boost to local small businesses and all those people who are doing their very best work in such challenging times. Watch the newsletter and our social media feeds next week for the winners. Do you like our fun Hell’s Hero plinth (pictured below)?

Also, we’ve been compiling lists of your favorite places in Hell’s Kitchen. Together, they make up Hell’s Kitchen’s HOT 100. We’re going to publish the list online, but as mentioned last week, we want to print out thousands of maps to circulate in the neighborhood and to those open-hearted folks from the boros and Tri-state area venturing into the city this fall.

Can you help? Yes! We need $$$s to print and distribute these maps. We’ve already had some pledges from local businesses and organizations, and already your reader contributions have helped immensely. We promise this printed map will be a great way to help our local businesses survive and thrive. Support here…

COMPAINTS SKY HIGH AT LUXURY BUILDING
Security concerns, along with a raft of other complaints, have angered residents at the luxury residence SKY on W42nd St. Owners, the Moinian Group, have been accused of “slumlord behavior” at New York’s largest rental apartment building, and a poster campaign now surrounds the block. While neighboring buildings recently increased security in response to homeless issues, SKY has laid off staff, resulting in just one front desk person servicing the needs of the 1,175 apartments as well as door and security duties. Read our story…

COOL KIDS
As we take in the last drops of summer, let’s celebrate all those unsanitary things we did pre-COVID to keep cool. This photograph from the Library of Congress archives (circa 1910-15) shows kids took their chances on hygiene pre-Spanish Flu! Who secretly doesn’t want to mutually lick an ice block together in the street this Labor Day weekend to keep cool!?