DOE Delays Opening Of Manhattan School Building After Electrical Explosion

NEW YORK - The New York City Department of Education has decided to delay opening a downtown Manhattan school building after an electrical explosion caused the building to catch fire. A fire was reported at the Washington Irving Campus at 40 Irving Place on East 16th Street in the Gramercy Park section of Manhattan at around 11 p.m on Feb. 25. The building houses six schools, including Gramercy Arts High School, charter school Success Academy Union Square, Academy for Software Engineering, Union Square Academy for Health and Sciences, High School for Language and Diplomacy and International High School.
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Washington Irving Campus Remains Closed After Building Fire

... ot a nose for [...] According to authorities, fire was reported at 40 Irving Place on East 16th Street in the Gramercy Park section of Manhattan at around 11 p.m., CBS2 reported.
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Here Are Maialino's No Tipping Menus

Maialino, Nick Anderer's Roman-inspired restaurant at the Gramercy Park Hotel, became the second Danny Meyer restaurant to eliminate tipping today, bringing with it higher wages for staffers and higher prices for diners. The change also lets the venue test out gratuity-free dining at a somewhat unexpected mealtime: breakfast.
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Julia Roberts lands herself another stunning Malibu estate across...

... has a large real estate collection spread across the US including at least three apartments in the private Gramercy Park area of New York, a rural ranch property in New Mexico and two ocean-front estates in Hanalei, Hawaii. Julia's currently trying ...
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Good service, atmosphere keeps indie retailers in the game

... Leven and his partners are opening their fifth New York coffeehouse. Their first, 71 Irving, has been in the Gramercy Park neighborhood for 20 years and grown despite the presence of two Starbucks within a five-block
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Family affair! Lindsay Lohan's brother becomes latest family member ...

... after parking his car on Manhattan's E 21st St without paying the meter. Police patrolling the street near Gramercy Park spotted a fake document on his dashboard that read 'Official Business Vehicle Identification issued by the State of New York ...
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LL Cool J's Red-Carpet Gum Control and More Insider Scoop

... columnist Paul Krugman. The End This Depression Now! author attended the band's jam-packed showcase at the Gramercy Park Hotel's Rose Bar in New York and wrote about the gig in his Times blog , The Conscience of a Liberal. Posting a photo he took at ...
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50 Abused Brooklyn Bunnies Up for Adoption This Weekend

Another batch of the approximately 275 Brooklyn bunnies famously rescued from snowy, STD-infested squalor in Gowanus last year are fully rehabilitated and ready to find forever homes, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals announced Wednesday. The original tally of rescued bunnies was actually more around 180, but a few of the females popped out little ones, as bunnies do, before they could be spayed by the ASPCA.
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