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PEDESTRIAN HIT, KILLED ON YORK IMPACT OF NEW SUBWAY An empty storefront near the Second Avenue subway’s 96th Street station. Photo: Michael Garofalo
SAFETY
Well-known market manager was struck by a taxi BY LAURA HANRAHAN
A longtime Upper East Side market manager was struck and killed by a yellow cab as he crossed York Avenue and 78th Street Saturday night, the second such fatal incident at that intersection in 15 months. Manikkam Srymanean, 50, was crossing York when he was hit about 9:30 p.m., police said. He presumably had just left the Super-Del Market, on the east side of the avenue just north of 78th Street, where he had worked for 30 years. Srymanean was taken to NewYork-
Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead shortly afterward. The cab driver, who remained at the scene, was not arrested. Police did not say if he was cited. The NYPD Highway Collision Investigation Squad is investigating. Srymanean, who lived nearby on East 78th Street, was well-known in the community. On Sunday and Monday, friends and acquaintances gathered in front of the market, where a growing, makeshift memorial of bouquets of flowers, signs and notes had assembled since Saturday night. The market was closed Sunday. Known to residents as “Mano,” Srymanean was described as kind
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ON RENTS UNCLEAR REAL ESTATE Tax reform pegged as potential relief for businesses BY MICHAEL GAROFALO
Even after a report indicating that long-anticipated residential rent hikes on the Upper East Side have been slow to materialize following the Second Avenue subway’s opening in January, locals remain concerned about
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the line’s impact on the area’s already high-priced housing market. An April 17 analysis by Crain’s New York Business found that since the new line opened New Year’s Day, asking rents had dropped for more than half of apartments listed near the three new stations. But according to some community members, year-todate data paints an incomplete picture of how the subway has changed the neighborhood’s real estate market. “The rent increase with the subway has already been cooked in,” Community Board 8 member Ed Hartzog
said at an April 24 meeting of the board’s housing committee, which he co-chairs. “So just because it hasn’t gone up in four months doesn’t mean
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