PUT IT ON HIS BILL
Tto home for “13 Reasons Why” star and her Upper East Side neighbors last weekend when area mainstay Manikam (Mano) Srymanean was struck down by a cab on his way to the bodega where he worked nonstop. And now the neighborhood is at a loss. “People are standing outside day and night, this rotating cast of people coming through and crying in front of this store,” said a teary Hargreaves, who moved into the neighborhood 10 years ago and took to Mano right away. “It’s crazy.” The 51-year-old Upper East Side shopkeeper was walking between his 78th St. home and the bodega (photo) when he was fatally struck while crossing York St. on Saturday night. Hargreaves compares the kindly local to “Sesame Street’s” Mr. Hooper for his benevolence toward the kids in the neighborhood. She also said that Mano looked after the area’s adults. “You could roll in there at 2 in the morning, if you know what I mean, be a little bit sloppy and the next day you’d hear nothing about it,” she said.
a building super on E. 78th St., is coordinating with St. Monica’s Roman Catholic Church on E. 79th St., where he’s a parishioner, to arrange a May 4 service for the friend of 25 years he calls “The Mayor of Yorkville.”
“There was an elderly woman who lived in my building and she was complaining about her computer so Mano gave her his computer,” he recalled. Gleeson says that when another elderly local died a few years ago, Mano heard her body had been lying in a morgue for six weeks, and he personally paid her final expenses.
According to Gleeson, Mano was one of “11 or 12” siblings, many of whom live in Canada, and he sent them money when he could. Because Mano was Hindu, his funeral service won’t be Christian. But Gleeson says St. Monica’s is helping coordinate the funeral anyway.
“They’re not even charging us because of how the guy was thought of around the neighborhood,” he said. It’s time to take up a collection for The Microsoft founder, worth nearly $84 billion, is $20,000 lighter this week after purchasing a women’s suffrage banner that dates back to 1913. We’re told that Gates (inset) purchased the beige shield-shaped collectible from Jeff Bridgman American Antiques in York, Pa., which also sold a “Votes for Women” sash to last year. The former First Daughter purchased that gift for mom shortly before last year’s presidential election.