At long last, the city is taking action to bring safety to an East Village intersection plagued with violence connected with an illegal open-air market that has operated there for years.
Mayor Eric Adams, a slew of elected officials, and the NYPD announced on Thursday that they will be making a $1 million investment to implement a mobile command center along 14th Street and 1st Avenue — the scene of a violent stabbing in June that left one man dead and several others wounded.
