Friday, May 23, 2008

Highs and lows this week

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Such good news this week about St. Brigid's . Meanwhile, this is what's left of the Tower of Toys as of Friday afternoon around 4.

"A handful of its buildings may seem grimly picturesque, but for the most part this is unappealing New York"

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That's Simon Jenkins writing in today's Guardian UK . It's a reaction to the National Trust for Historic Preservation naming th...

Dumpster of the Day

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10th Steet between Avenue A and First Avenue.

I had this dream in which I woke up and every corner in the city was now a condo, bank and Duane Reade

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Then I woke up for real and.....AHHHHHHHHHH!

The Brooklyn Bridge really overdid it last night during its 125th birthday

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Can't even call this a hangover. Still, what a blowout!

I'm really tired of suggestive advertising

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What exactly does "come to your happy place" mean? Now this is just too much!
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Thursday, May 22, 2008

Hmm, feel like seeing a movie at my neighborhood theater -- what shall I see?

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"Just because a building is old does not mean that it is historically significant"

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That's Mitchell L. Moss, professor of urban policy and planning at NYU's Wagner School of Public Service, in an op-ed in today'...
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Days of Heaven? 7th Heaven? Little bit of heaven? Heaven sent?

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Pennies from heaven? I think $20 million deserves better than "Pennies." Still, at least they didn't play up the "America...
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"They tore it down. They tore it down. They tore it down."

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Indeed. That's what a man remarked (over and over) this morning as he walked by the rubble that used to be the Tower of Toys in the comm...
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A St. Brigid's killjoy

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I exchanged e-mails with a friend in the neighborhood last night about the new life for St. Brigid's. He seemed initially happy, I thoug...
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St. Brigid's as it was...and as it will be...

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I had mentioned Paul Dougherty, a longtime video maker, in a post on April 24. Given the good news about St. Brigid's, let's take a...
Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Wow -- St. Brigid's is SAVED (hallelujah!)

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Just what the neighborhood needed. Amazing news. The City Room has the story: Donor Gives $20 Million to Save St. Brigid’s By Sewell Chan A...
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With that extra $$$, you can buy two ounces of popcorn

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Still, at least someone came to their senses for once. (And what's a movie ticket going for these days? Think I paid $11.75 to see the a...

Is this really such a bad thing?

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From the wire! Public bathrooms in NYC subway close at midnight NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City bar-hoppers heading home may want to heed n...
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008

The Tower of Toys lives for one more day (part of the Tower, anyway)

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Well, it looks like Eddie's iconic tower will be up for at least one more day. I was there just after 6 tonight. There was a light rain....

"If you are at the corner of Bowery and Houston, and think about what it was like 10 to 15 years ago compared with today, you couldn’t recognize it"

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As it was widely reported, the National Trust for Historic Preservation designated the Lower East Side as one of the 11 most endangered pla...
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What movies people in the 10009 zip code are watching

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Joshua Stein, a former writer for Gawker , has a nice item on his site, My Memoirs , in which he looks at the NetFlix feature that allows y...
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John Varvatos saw the light

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The Post has a special commercial real estate section today. (And it's not online.) The cover story is titled "New Lease of Life,&...

Real estate update: "Much of Manhattan continues humming along"

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The Wall Street Journal has a piece today on cities where home prices on holding up. While the housing market may be soft in, say, San Fra...