

So when her husband, a graphic novelist, was offered a job in Los Angeles, the family sublet their apartment from January 2001 until January 2004. Depending on the weather, the backyard is open from April to November, Spingola said.ĭespite the established backyard curfew, the noise continued to bother Glass. Following that meeting, the bar’s owners agreed to close the Boxcar’s backyard at midnight during the week and at 1 a.m. The first time Glass and her neighbors complained about the bar to the community board was in 2000.
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3 for their full liquor license two years ago, he said. However, the bar had no problems getting approval from C.B. He was not as involved in the business at that time, Spingola said. John Spingola, one of the bar’s owners, could not confirm or deny Ramaci’s statement. 3 that they would be using the backyard, said Lisa Ramaci, who was chairperson of the S.L.A. When the Boxcar’s owners first applied for their beer and wine liquor license in 1998, they never told C.B. But ultimately it’s still very noisy,” Glass said. “For the first time ever, they’re trying to keep the noise down. Glass admitted the noise level in the Boxcar garden started to decease the week following the May 23 meeting. Committee chairperson, Edward Kelly and Commissioner Emily Lloyd, head of the city’s Department of Environmental Protection.

3’s district manager, with copies to City Councilmember Margarita Lopez Lieutenant Cawley of the Ninth Precinct C.B. Glass plans to give the petitions to Susan Stetzer, C.B. In preparation for this month’s meeting, Glass has collected 31 petition signatures from other neighbors who share the courtyard with Boxcar asking for an earlier closing time for the backyard garden and decreased seating. On June 20, they will follow up at the next committee meeting regarding their complaints. Glass and eight other neighbors took their complaints against the Boxcar Lounge to Community Board 3’s State Liquor Authority and Economic Development Committee meeting on May 23. Every room in their apartment faces the backyard. Her husband, Kyle Baker, first purchased the co-op 20 years ago. with her husband and three children, ages 6, 4 and 18 months. It is unclear, however, whether the victims were gay men found dead after having visited gay bars or whether they were connected to the indicted suspects.A 36-year-old, stay-at-home mom, Glass lives in a two-bedroom co-op on E 11th St. The medical examiner’s office confirmed Wednesday that it is investigating “several additional deaths in similar circumstances” to those of Ramirez and Umberger. NBC News has spoken with several gay men who said they survived similar incidents from December 2021 to October. In the months after their deaths, more gay New Yorkers stepped forward with eerily similar accounts. This month - nearly a year after they were found dead - the New York City medical examiner’s office ruled their deaths as homicides caused by a “drug-facilitated theft.” Multiple drugs were found in their systems, including fentanyl, lidocaine and cocaine. Both had left the bars with at least one unknown person before their bank accounts were drained of thousands of dollars using facial recognition access on their phones, family members have said. Umberger and Ramirez were found dead after having visited gay bars in the city’s lively Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood last spring. However, they added that the New York City Police Department’s Hate Crime Task Force is assisting in the investigation. The officials alleged that the suspects were targeting victims for financial gain and not because of their sexual orientation.
