An e-bike sparked a massive hours-long blaze that gutted a Bronx grocery store and injured seven people — two seriously — on Sunday, officials said.
An EMS worker and a civilian were seriously hurt when flames broke out around 10:40 a.m. at the Concourse Food Plaza at 2096 Grand Concourse in the West Bronx section, officials said. Five firefighters suffered minor injuries.
The quick-moving fire was blamed on a scooter’s lithium-ion battery and rose to five alarms, requiring over 50 units and more than 200 firefighters to douse it.
Mayor Adams went to the scene and used the incident to call attention to the batteries, which have sparked a slew of recent fires in the city, some of them fatal.
“We have witnessed this over and over again, and that is why we’re going to continue to amplify the message that a simple device like this, this charred scooter, is only a symbol of what is happening behind us and what has continued to take place since early this morning,” Adams said Sunday afternoon. “We’re still fighting the fire because of the type of device the fire started from.”
An e-bike sparked a massive hours-long blaze that gutted a Bronx grocery store and injured seven people on Sunday, officials said. Tomas E.Gaston The fire was blamed on a scooter’s lithium-ion battery, requiring over 50 units and more than 200 firefighters to douse it. Tomas E.Gaston
Fire Commissioner Laura Kavanagh said the bike caused “extraordinary damage.
“This entire building behind me is completely destroyed,” Kavanagh said. “The roof is caved in. There’s nothing left. And it is all because of this single bike.”
Firefighters could be seen carrying the burnt bike away from the scene.
Fires caused by e-bike batteries killed six people in the city in 2022, officials said. Those blazes were among 219 started by the batteries last year and left another 147 people injured.
To prepare for her trip to the Big Apple, the now-Los Angeles resident packed a bunch of her mother’s clothes — and a bright orange $5 dress she bought on the clearance rack at a boutique in Santa Monica— which she wore to a Grammys pre-party last month.
“Everyone comes to these fashion shows, front row in like designer, decked out in Prada, Gucci,” Perl, 22, told The Post.
“And everyone’s walking around with the microphone … ‘Who are you wearing?’ And I’m like, ‘Zara … and I’m gonna return it tomorrow.’ That’s just who I am.”
Perl posed in her $5 dress at the Grammys pre-party prior to Fashion Week.Sarah Perl
Perl always wore hand-me-downs in her youth, and can’t shake the habit of buying cheap and second-hand outfits.
“Growing up, fashion was never my thing, because I just couldn’t afford clothes,” she said in a TikTok video she posted during Fashion Week.
However, she now has the means to fill her closet with luxury brands. She earns $40,000 a month, mainly from selling her pre-recorded classes, which are based on the belief that your thoughts create your reality.
Her online road to success started in November 2020, when she was a college sophomore double-majoring in education and history. She started a TikTok page under the name HotHigh Priestess, doing tarot card readings.
In just one year, she had 1 million followers. Now it’s more than 2 million.
“The first videos I posted instantly got millions of views. It was … absolutely unreal,” she explained.
Growing up in Bensonhurst, she wore hand-me-down clothing.Sarah Perl
A so-called spiritual influencer, she gives others “the belief that they can achieve more, they can accomplish anything despite their circumstances.”
“Because, you know, given the way I grew up … this story that I was always fed was one of struggle … People like you don’t make it out,” she said. “So it’s always been my goal to show people that they can make it out because I did.”
She first left Brooklyn to attend a prestigious university in the Boston area, with the help of financial aid, taking out loans, and working two jobs.
As a college sophomore, Perl started a TikTok account and now has more than 2 million followers.Sarah Perl
“I was going to college with so many rich people … and I was in a program, it was literally for poor kids. And I was just looking at these kids who were getting college paid for when I was going thousands of dollars in debt,” she recalled. “My parents didn’t even pay for my textbooks.”
Her legion of loyal social media followers include people from her Title I high school.
“I actually just recently got a message from a girl from my high school who was like, ‘You know, I don’t even think you understand how much we needed to hear this story,’” she said.
Even the ones who once bullied her reach out in support.
“There’s people from the past who used to bully me and are like, ‘Oh, I love you,’” she said. “And I’m like, ‘Well, that’s funny.’”
New Yorkers are giving Gov. Kathy Hochul even lower marks when it comes to confronting the rising cost of living in the Empire State than the below water rating they gave her on fighting crime, a new poll reveals.
“Crime and cost of living were voters’ top two priorities for Albany back in December heading into this session, and they remain the two issues voters want Hochul and the Legislature to prioritize,” said pollster Steven Greenberg of the Siena College poll released Monday.
“Crime is the top priority for Republicans, independents, downstate suburbanites, and upstaters, while for Democrats and New York City voters, cost of living edges out crime for the single top priority,” he added.
The poll, conducted Feb. 19-23, which had a margin of error of plus or minus 5%, highlights how Hochul continues to struggle on some key issues as she pushes a range of controversial budget proposals – which include an effective ban on gas stoves in new buildings opposed by voters 53% to 29% – ahead of an April 1 budget deadline.
Voters overwhelmingly believe crime is at least somewhat serious of a problem in the Empire State, with 60% of voters overall saying the situation is “very serious” and another 32% saying “somewhat serious.”
A new poll shows voters have mixed attitudes on the budget proposals unveiled by Gov. Kathy Hochul at the beginning of February ahead of the April 1 budget deadline.AP
A 49% plurality of respondents disapprove of Hochul’s handling of crime – New York City kicked off 2023 with an 18% spike in serious assaults – compared to 43% who approve.
Siena found big differences between the opinions of suburbanites and upstaters on crime and affordability compared to their relatively left-leaning counterparts in New York City.
A 55% majority of people within New York City approve of her handling of crime compared to 59% upstate and 51% in the suburbs.
Registered Republicans gave Hochul her worst marks on crime with 75% of them disapproving, alongside 66% of self-identified conservatives and 63% of independents.
A whopping 64% of Latinos disapprove of her record on public safety compared to 47% of Black voters and 41% of white voters.
Young people between the ages of 18 and 34 were the only age group to have a majority (53%) approving of her approach to rising crime while at least 50% of every other age group disapproved.
Crime was the top issue for 36% of voters though the cost of living and affordable housing were close behind at 27% and 13% with public health, the environmental and racial justice trailed at 8%, 7%, and 6% in the survey of 744 registered voters.
The Siena Poll showed voters disapproving 53% to 29% Hochul’s budget proposal to effectively ban gas stoves in new buildings.Getty Images Hochul got relatively positive marks from voters on some issues, but not her budget push to ban new gas hook-ups in new buildings beginning in 2025 and with larger buildings three years later. SIENA RESEARCH INSTITUTE
The numbers for Hochul were even worse when it came to making New York more affordable.
A 54% majority disapprove of the job Hochul is doing with making New York more affordable compared to 39% who approve.
The numbers are much worse in the suburbs and upstate, with 63% and 64% of people from the two groups respectively disapproving of her response to sky-high prices compared to just 24% and 32% who approve.
The new poll finds nearly unanimity among voters that crime is at least “somewhat serious” of a problem.Matthew McDermott
But the situation is reversed within the five boroughs where 56% of respondents approve of her her affordability efforts compared to 37% who disapprove.
The differences in opinion are much less pronounced by ethnicity, gender, or income level while 75% of Republicans disapprove compared to 58% of independents and 41% of Democrats.
“There is a regional aspect to it, but I think largely the regional aspect to this is the partisan aspect,” Greenberg told the Post about the differences in opinion between New York City, upstate and suburban counties that include Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, Rockland, Orange, and Putnam.
Hochul got better marks from voters on other fronts though her favorability rating slipped from 48% to 46% over the last month, with her disapproval rating increasing from 42% to 43%.
Two-thirds of registered voters say liar Rep. George Santos should resign – including 58% of Republcians.AP Hochul’s approval rating remained relatively the same. SIENA RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Her disapproval rating, however, jumped to 40% from 26% a month ago.
Voters approve of her efforts “to encourage businesses to locate in New York” by 51% to 37%.
A slight plurality (45%) gave the thumbs up to her push to increase “the availability of affordable housing in New York, with 41% giving a thumbs down.
Just 33% of voters oppose her proposal to lower the legal blood alcohol limit from .08% to .05%.
A 57% majority supports a proposed ban on flavored tobacco products compared to 35% who oppose the idea.
Her proposal to peg the state minimum wage to the rate of inflation is uniting people across the political spectrum, with 59% of Republicans supporting the idea alongside 82% of Democrats and 70% of voters overall.
Just 16% of respondents say Santos should not resign following revelations about the falsehoods he told voters about his professional and personal background while 66% of voters overall say he should step down.
“The ‘good’ news for Santos is that even in these hyper partisan times, he’s found a way to get Democrats, Republicans and independents to agree about a political figure. The bad news for Santos is that the political figure they agree on is him, and they overwhelmingly view him unfavorably,” Greenberg said. “It’s not just that 72% of Democrats want him to resign, so do 63% of independents and 58% of Republicans.”
Dozens of demonstrators protested outside a Chinatown building housing a foreign police station accused of harassing and spying on Chinese nationals in the city.
More than 60 protestors gathered Saturday morning outside 107 East Broadway where the ChangLe Association Inc, a non-profit, owns and operates a “service station” above a noodle shop where security experts say operatives conduct surveillance against dissidents in the Chinese community.
“It’s a very serious problem in the Chinese community,” said Toni Cai, one of the protestors. Cai is a pro-democracy activist imprisoned by the Chinese Communist Party twice in China for promoting free speech. He immigrated to the US in 2000, he told The Post.
“The CCP has coerced the Chinese community severely and has a large influence on them here in the state, through American and Asian-American politicians,” he said. “I am very worried, but I want to support the community leaders who are honest and openly against what the CCP is doing.”
More than 60 protestors gathered Saturday morning in Lower Manhattan.William Farrington
Jing Zhang, founder and executive director of Women’s Rights in China, echoed the thought as she joined the protesters outside the Lower Manhattan building. “People need to support each other,” she said “We all came here to be free.”
The Manhattan station is part of a web of more than 100 such law enforcement offices set up around the world by the People’s Republic of China, ostensibly to help Chinese nationals renew their government-issued identification and drivers’ licenses.
But the stations have more “sinister” purposes, such as spying on the Chinese diaspora for the Chinese Communist Party, according to a recent whistle-blower report.
Republican Congressman Mike Gallagher attended the demonstration. William Farrington
“Openly labeled as overseas police service stations … they contribute to ‘resolutely cracking down on all kinds of illegal and criminal activities involving overseas Chinese,’” according to a September report by Safeguard Defenders, a Madrid-based human rights group that documents Chinese repression around the world.
The stations also participate in “intimidation, harassment, detention or imprisonment” to spy on dissenters and return migrants to China, according to the report.
“We Chinese are very angry at local government for their appeasement policy,” said Quiam Jiu, who was at the protest with his daughter, Zhao Yue Auiam. “They let the CCP repress freedom and human rights activities. We want local government to have high pressure policy on CCP agents.”
“CCP agents are everywhere,” said Ziyun Huang, who was also at the Saturday protest. William Farrington
Last year, New York City Mayor Eric Adams was a guest of honor at a gala dinner sponsored by the charity that operates the Chinatown police station, The Post revealed.
“CCP agents are everywhere,” said Ziyun Huang, who was also at the Saturday protest. “When all the human rights groups have protests and demonstrations, the CCP will come and harass people.
“The CCP affects the average Chinese American tremendously,” Huang continued. “The party is always in the back of their mind. Everything they do is psychological. CCP to the Chinese is like the weather — they are always in the background,”
A Pennsylvania man was so intent on stealing his dead dad’s pension and Social Security payments that he even used make-up to “whiten his hair and eyebrows” to impersonate his elderly father to skeptical authorities.
The grifter, Timothy Gritman, 55, stole $204,985 in NY state pension and Social Security funds paid out to his dad, Ralph, from October 2017 to October 2022, State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli said.
Ralph Gritman, 79, of Freeport, LI, retired from the Nassau County Clerk’s Office in 1992 andmoved with his wife, Naomi, to a retirement community in Pennsylvania approximately three years later, DiNapoli said.
After Naomi died in 2010, Ralph was unable to keep up with his home and moved in with his son in 2014, the comptroller’s office said.
Father and son pulled up stakes and moved to Wyoming in Aug. 2017, DiNapoli said.
The elder Gritman went to a hospital emergency room in Wyoming a month later, Medicare records showed. That was the last time his Medicare benefits were ever used, the comptroller said.
The father was “in poor health in 2016 when he was last seen alive by relatives” at his son’s Pennsylvania residence, authorities said.
In 2019, Timothy Gritman told a family member that his father had died several years earlier, but would not say where he was buried or what had happened to his body, DiNapoli said.
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A call to DiNapoli’s fraud hotline sparked a joint investigation that included the FBI and Pennsylvania authorities and led to the suspension of Ralph Gritman’s pension payments, the comptroller said. But his shady son continued to claim his father was alive and requested the pension payments be resumed.
When DiNapoli’s office asked to speak with Ralph Gritman, his son would either claim the older man was asleep or would try to imitate his dad’s voice, authorities alleged.
So the comptroller’s office asked for photographic evidence of his father holding a current ID card.
The scheming son then sent investigators a picture of himself, in which he tried to disguise himself as his dad by “appearing to use make-up to whiten his hair and eyebrows” and, holding a “bogus” Pennsylvania State identification card, DiNapoli and FBI officials said.
Timothy Gritman was arrested on Feb. 14 and pleaded guilty in US District Court, Philadelphia, to wire fraud and Social Security fraud, according to the state comptroller’s office. He faces a maximum of 285 years in prison, a three-year period of supervised release, and $3.7 million in fines at sentencing on May 31.
Ralph Gritman’s body has still not been found. He is believed to have died of natural causes, authorities said.
Timothy Gritman tried to impersonate his dead dad by “appearing to use make-up to whiten his hair and eyebrows and holding a “bogus,” according to authorities.
The seedy swindle got off the ground because father and son shared a joint bank account where the elder Gritman’s retirement benefits were electronically deposited, DiNapoli noted.
“To date, R.G.’s body has not been located and defendant Gritman has refused to admit to family members or law enforcement where R.G. is buried,” reads the scammer’s guilty plea memorandum.
“Needless to say, defrauding the government is a criminally bad idea and the FBI and our partners will continue to pursue anyone bold enough, and foolish enough, to do so,” said Jacqueline Maguire, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Philadelphia Division.
“My office will continue to hold anyone who seeks to defraud the pension system accountable no matter who or where they are,” DiNapoli said.
State Police investigators are probing whether troopers in Gov. Kathy Hochul’s security detail have been cheating taxpayers by claiming they’re on the clock when they’re actually blowing off their shifts, The Post has learned.
The probe is focused on members of the governor’s detail stationed in New York City — and those troopers under scrutiny have already been removed from their post and could face disciplinary action if the allegations are confirmed, state police officials told The Post on Monday.
The governor’s detail includes a rotating group of more than 40 troopers and supervisors, law-enforcement sources said.
The New York State Troopers’ Internal Affairs Bureau is probing claims that at least some of them had their records falsified so that they could still get paid even when they weren’t working, sources said.
Some of the troopers are specifically accused of having colleagues sign them in on timesheets and then simply not showing up for their shifts, sources said.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s state-police security detail is under investigation because some members may have falsified records to get paid while blowing off their shifts. The Washington Post via Getty Images
IAB investigators grilled several troopers in Hochul’s detail last week about the allegations, with more officers expected to be questioned later this week, according to sources.
The probers also are reviewing everyone’s timesheet, sources said.
In a statement Monday, state police spokesman William Duffy confirmed that the agency “has launched an administrative investigation into time and attendance issues involving members of the Protective Services Unit.
The governor’s security detail is the focus of an internal state-police probe.Larry Marano
“Integrity is one of our core values and we thoroughly investigate any claims of wrongdoing,” Duffy said. “If our investigation determines that our policies were violated, the state police will take appropriate disciplinary action.”
Hochul, who was elected last year after taking office in 2021 to replace disgraced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, is assigned three different security details to protect her: in Albany, New York City and when she is at her home in Buffalo.
The sources said each of the Albany and New York City details consists of four troopers and one supervisor when they’re on duty, with the details drawn from the larger group.
Gov. Hochul has more than 40 state troopers in her revolving security detail for when she is in New York City, Albany and Buffalo.Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images
Members of the same rotating group guard Hochul when she’s at home in Buffalo, although it is unclear how many personnel that involves.
The state police said it does not confirm details of security deployments or how many troopers are assigned to each location for safety reasons.
The allegations of time-clock cheating surfaced earlier this month, the sources said.
Officials in the governor’s office did not respond to requests from The Post seeking comment on the probe Monday.
Four people were injured when a decorative helicopter figurine came crashing down into a pool full of children inside New Jersey’s American Dream mall Sunday.
One person was rushed to the hospital and three others were treated on the scene after the large display came crashing down from the ceiling of the DreamWorks Water Park inside the East Rutherford mall around 3 p.m., officials said.
The water park was evacuated and police are investigating the terrifying incident.
None of the victims suffered life-threatening injuries. Authorities have not released the ages of the injured, but the park-goers said the helicopter was hung from a wire above a kiddy pool area.
The section of the water park where the display fell is called “The Penguins Frozen Fun Zone” and is designed for toddlers, according to the American Dream website.
The helicopter figurine crashed into “The Penguins Frozen Fun Zone” inside American Dream mall Sunday. @Sangelitoz/Twitter
Visitors enjoying the water park said they heard a crash and then screams from both parents and kids as people began panicking.
“A large helicopter display fell on to a kiddy pool and slide area! Chaos soon after,” Angel Sanchez tweeted alongside photos of the downed copter. “The sound was scary then the screaming from parents and kids.”
Mall officials closed the park for the rest of the day and said it would remain closed Monday.
One person was rushed to the hospital and three others were treated on the scene after the scary incident. @Sangelitoz/Twitter
“The safety of our guests is our highest priority. We will conduct a thorough investigation into this incident to ensure the park meets all safety regulations as required,” American Dream officials said in a statement to NJ.com.
The stricken former partner of slain EMT Yadira Arroyo described in Bronx court Tuesday how a routine day suddenly turned tragic when a deranged man hijacked their ambulance.
Monique Williams recalled to jurors in painful detail how she and Arroyo, a beloved 44-year-old mom of five, were driving to a call involving a pregnant woman when a passing motorist signaled to them that a man was riding on their bumper on White Plains Road about 7 p.m. March 16, 2017.
The FDNY medics pulled over to investigate, and the next thing they knew, 25-year-old suspect Jose Gonzalez had run around and hopped behind the wheel of their emergency vehicle, she said.
“I remember her screaming, ‘Oh hell, no!’ ” Williams said of Arroyo.
“I was trying to pull his hand off the steering wheel,” Williams said in the courtroom — where about 50 EMTs were in the gallery staring down Gonzalez, who was allegedly high on PCP at the time of the crime.
Gonzalez was able to kick the ambulance into gear even as he fought with the two medics, Williams said.
Another witness said the suspect then suddenly backed up the ambulance and hit a car before lurching forward into an intersection. That’s when Arroyo fell, and the emergency vehicle fatally ran her over.
FDNY medic Yadira Arroyo, 44, was fatally mowed down by her hijacked ambulance in 2017. AP
Williams said she immediately noticed that she no longer heard her pal “Yadi.
“I lost sight of her,” said the former medic, who retired the day of the horror. “When we started to go forward, I felt some tumbling underneath us.”
She found Arroyo lying still on the ground.
“I ran over to her to try to get her up,” Williams said quietly. “She didn’t get up. I stayed there with her. She didn’t move no more, so I just stood there with her.”
Arroyo’s aunt, Ali Acevedo-Hernandez, later told The Post outside court that the emotional account drove her to tears.
“The thing that got to me … was when [Williams] said that she felt something tumbling under the wheels,” Acevedo-Hernandez said. “And I know it was Yadi.”
Acevedo-Hernandez — who said she had to close Arroyo’s eyes at the hospital after she died — added that she wants Gonzalez to pay for what he did.
Jose Gonzalez was allegedly high on PCP when he ran over the mother of five.New York Post
“I see no remorse,” she said. “I don’t see any pity, I don’t see no repentance. I see nothing. I just see an empty shell of a person. He can’t even take responsibility for what he did.”
At one point during Tuesday’s trial, prosecutors displayed gruesome photo evidence of the ambulance’s blood-splattered driver’s side and smashed driver’s side headlight, prompting the crowd of EMTs there to gasp loudly.
Authorities have charged Gonzalez with manslaughter, robbery and vehicular manslaughter.Seth Gottfried
The other witness who testified, real-estate agent Demetrius Perez, 43, said that after Arroyo was mowed down, Gonzalez got out of the ambulance and began to fight with the quickly gathering crowd.
“I remember him attempting … to throw a punch, and then the guy grabbed him and threw him to the ground,” Perez said.
The ambulance went through an intersection and struck several cars before it came to a halt. Christopher Sadowski
Prosecutors have charged Gonzalez with first-degree manslaughter, robbery, vehicular manslaughter and operating a motor vehicle under the influence.
A surveillance video recording presented by the defense has shown Gonzalez walk up to the driver’s side door, open it and climb in. But an SUV obscured Arroyo falling out before the ambulance started to move.
Louis Montalvo, an EMT who knew Arroyo for nearly two decades, told The Post on Tuesday that “Yadi’s name needs justice.”
“The city needs justice,” Montalvo said. “Her sons need justice. Her family needs justice. We need justice. And we’re not going to stop until justice is brought. We’re going to be here every day.”
A beloved giraffe died in an upstate zoo over the weekend when he fractured his neck after it got stuck in a support structure for his enclosure’s gate.
The 6-year-old Masai giraffe named Parker was found unresponsive Sunday morning inside the Animals of the Savanna Building at the Seneca Park Zoo in Rochester, the Democrat and Chronicle reported.
Veterinary personnel responded immediately but were unable to save the majestic animal.
“The possibility of this kind of event happening was unforeseen and unprecedented,” zoo Superintendent Steve Lacy said in a statement.
“The gate structure, installed in 2018, is a standard giraffe enclosure feature and is used in a number of accredited zoos around the country,” he added.
Parker fractured his neck when he tried to free himself, officials said.
The Seneca Park Zoo said the gate’s manufacturer has been notified, adding that there have been no reports of similar incidents with the structures at other zoos.
Parker had a male baby with Iggy, another zoo giraffe, in April.Seneca Park Zoo
The US Department of Agriculture and the Association of Zoos and Aquariums also have been notified of the tragedy.
The zoo added that it would modify the gate to prevent this from happening again.
Parker, who arrived in Rochester from the Santa Barbara Zoo in 2018, was paired with female Masai giraffes Kipenzi and Iggy, the Democrat and Chronicle reported.
He and Iggy were parents to Olmsted, or Olmy, who was born April 29.
Parker’s other offspring, a male born to Kipenzi on July 12, was euthanized soon after birth after multiple interventions failed to correct a congenital abnormality of his left front fetlock joint.
Zoo veterinarian Chris McKinney said the facility’s three surviving giraffes are being monitored closely because “any major event can certainly affect them.”
Monroe County Executive Adam Bello said: “This is a tragedy for the Seneca Park Zoo community.
“From the staff who cared for and loved Parker, to the Zoo guests and members who had their visits brightened by Parker’s presence, we are all grieving this tremendous loss,” he added.
In March 2020, Luba Dudenko was in a serious car accident and suffered fractures in her back and pelvis. She landed in a wheelchair for four months — and dancing in the sheets was out of the question as she recovered.
Dudenko soon realized that making ice cream was a sweet sexual substitute.
She had just founded Kinky Scoops two months earlier — with exotic frozen flavors like “Pop the Cherry,” “Snuggle in Bread” and “Sugar Daddy.”
Luba Dudenko had some fun with her ice cream at her kitchen in Williamsburg. Stephen Yang
Following the horrific crash on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway while sitting in the back of an Uber, the Russian-born Williamsburg resident spent two months in the hospital, where surgeons realigned her back using screws.
After returning home, Dudenko, 29, had to learn how to manage her constant pain — and lack of sex. She found scoops of stimulation.
“As I was making ice cream, I was like, ‘You know what, it’s giving me everything that sex gives me’ . . . And I have to tell you, when you find that perfect combo of ingredients and flavors, it is orgasmic. You have this tingling inside your body.”
In 2020, Dudenko was in a car accident that left her wheelchair bound for four months.Luba Dudenko
Now that she’s back on the horse, so to speak, and “actively dating,” Dudenko says she’s taken her ice cream to the boudoir.
“That’s the test kitchen,” she said, laughing. “There’s so many fun things you can do with it. It’s cold and it’s tantalizing.”
Her accident settlement has helped her grow her fledgling business, which began when she finally opened the ice cream maker her mother had gifted her years earlier.
The brand’s suggestive logo is a cone topped with two scoops, resembling breasts.Stephen Yang
She now makes every scoop — each carton goes for $11 — in a Greenpoint kitchen with real chefs. Ingredients are sourced locally, from places like Noz Market on the Upper East Side.
Some of her flirty flavors include “Stimulation,” sprinkled with chocolate-covered coffee beans; “Like a Virgin,” which contains extra virgin olive oil; “Orguasm,” filled with guava paste; “Pop the Cherry,” mixed with maraschino cherries and dark rum; and “C Lime Max,” infused with lime juice.
For Valentine’s Day, she’s debuting “Brie Mine,” made with the actual French cheese, lemon juice and salt.
Her flavor “Like a Virgin” is made with extra virgin olive oil and chocolate chips.Stephen Yang
“We really wanted to stay away from this traditional image of like a cow and a kid eating an ice cream,” she said. “Ice cream, I think, is an aphrodisiac.”
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