Dwarf Pimp Busted in Bed-StuyThe rides at Coney are reportedly dangerous, Malcolm Gladwell buys up more of the West Village, and a little person gets caught big pimpin’ in Bed-Stuy. Ho-hum, just the start of another week in our daily boroughs report.
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New TKTS Now on Track for Fall
When the stalwart seventies-era TKTS booth in Father Duffy Square — it’s not Times Square, mind you, but the square just north of it — came down a year ago, we were promised a new version, complete with a shiny red staircase as a roof, a public space to rival Rome’s Spanish Steps, in time for last New Year’s Eve. No dice. What happened? An ownership change at the manufacturer originally slated to provide glass for that new hull derailed things, architect Nick Leahy of Perkins Eastman tells us. But the team is finalizing its choice for a new supplier, Leahy says, and expects the goods by late summer. “It was a hiccup that we managed,” Leahy says. “The ticket booth is in place and the geothermal heating [underground] is in place, and I would expect installation by early fall.” Which means it’ll be ready for next New Year’s or whatever autumn events — the World Series on the Jumbotron, the Macy’s parade, impeachment hearings — you might be looking forward to. —Alec Appelbaum