Friday, September 26, 2008

Depressed now? Make your voice be heard on Nov. 4!

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In front of Federal Hall yesterday.

Um, where's that $20 million?

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Curbed reports that the back wall at St. Brigid's on Avenue B and 8th Street is coming down . Previous St. Brigid's coverage on EV ...
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Thursday, September 25, 2008

Meet your new neighbors

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Goldenfiddle has this . Footage of aspiring gazelles from DNA Models , located at 520 Broadway.

Hope this doesn't give Dov Charney any ideas

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BoingBoing brings us this news: In certain Asian countries, Betelnut is a popular stimulant sold by s cantily-clad young girls in streetsid...

Noted: New Yorkers are neurotic, though not as neurotic as people from West Virginia

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Researchers identify regional personality traits across America. With interactive maps! There goes the rest of my afternoon . ( Wall Street ...

Wall Street is a mess

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Really . Just look at it.

Greed may or may not be good

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Funny item from The Superficial : Michael Douglas fielded questions yesterday about the current economic crisis facing America. Apparently, ...
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Stop me if you've heard this one before...

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At Fulton and Nassau in the Financial District. By my count, this is the 11th Starbucks from Chambers Street on the east side to Wall Street...
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Meanwhile, in London: In case you're in Notting Hill tonight

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Off topic (again)...Regardless, wanted to share this invite that was forwarded to me...: “Select Group, the Swankiest party in town!” Whilst...

"Back in that old shithole, New York"

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Here's a snippet from the short documentary Henry Miller Asleep & Awake from 1975, " a voyage of ideas about life, writing, se...
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The outsiders: Brit art on the Bowery

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Page Six reports today: THE British are coming, but East Villagers don't want them . Famed London art gallery Lazarides is opening a sh...
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Sure was nice out yesterday

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Though was it this nice? In Tompkins Square Park.
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Like a crash virgin...

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Doree Shafrir and Irina Alexksander look at "crash virgins" in this week's Observer , young New Yorkers experiencing their ver...
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What will a return to 1970s NYC be like?: "Well find out when we get there"

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Over at the Village Voice , Roy Edroso responds to Nick Paumgarten's New Yorker essay on Wall Street's collapse and a possible re...
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The many lives of the Roseland (For Part 2: Man, it's so loud in here)

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I love the Roseland Ballroom on West 52nd Street. Not so much as a concert venue. But for its history. Since 1919, the Roseland has been an...

About that "giant-robot laboratory" on East Sixth Street

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As you may know, New York has a great piece this week on 190 Bowery, a space that I've long been curious about. Wendy Goodman gets righ...
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The money shots of Wall Street (so to speak)

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Someone did a nice little edit job on Wall Street , as in the 1987 Oliver Stone film .

An appreciation: A sign that I like

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On Cherry Street. Haven't seen much lately about this site becoming a condo...
Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Looking at a review of Candace Bushnell's new book

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Read Doree Shafrir's review of One Fifth Avenue , the latest from Candace Bushnell, in the Observer . Bonus excerpt: [T]he new breed ...
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On returning to the 1970s in 2008 and beyond

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Nick Paumgarten on the possible implications of the Wall Street meltdown (under the heading in The New Yorker this week of Dept. of Magica...