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Friday, May 23, 2008
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...
Monday, May 19, 2008
The Tower of Toys is coming down
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I left work a little early today to swing by the community garden at 6th Street and Avenue B. As Jeremiah noted earlier today, the city sta...
New York Post attempts to relate to the economic struggles of the common family man trying to make a living in New York City
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The Post has a piece today that so many of us can relate to here in the city: Everything is just getting so expensive. YIKES! HIKES HIT $1,...
[Updated] "Artists, filmmakers, movie theaters — we're getting pushed out of Manhattan"
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That's Ray Privett, programmer at the Two Boots Pioneer Theater . In a New York Sun feature today, Privett discusses his latest project...
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Sunday, May 18, 2008
Looking at "a cozy downtown watering hole with an uptown look"
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In the Sunday Pulse section of the New York Post , we're taken on a cozy tour of the Bowery Wine Company, which Bruce Willis has somethi...
Articles that I won't be reading today (unless I'm aiming to get my blood pressure around 210/140)
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Page Six Magazine , which is FREE every Sunday in the New York Post (even though you pay $1 for the paper), devotes a good portion of the ma...
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14th Street dies a little more
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The scaffolding went up April 22...and the building started to come down last week. From an April 22 post of mine: Meanwhile, came to the co...
They're back!
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Last week, the ads with the bikini-clad rum saleswomen were shredded. Replacement ads went up almost immediately! Someone is hot to sell som...
Dumpster of the Day
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On 11th Street between First and Second Avenue.
Dancing in the Park
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The Dance Parade 2008 started yesterday at 28th and Broadway and winded up at Tompkins Square Park for a DanceFest. Seemed like 500 people w...
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Beautiful day
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Even better when there's construction going on in the building next door all morning. Speaking of which...did anyone see Noise ? Cu...
LES home of the week
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From this week's real estate section in the New York Post . One of the "dream" homes of the week (descriptions are written by...
Is this really fiction?
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The Wall Street Journal yesterday ran an excerpt from the new novel by Julie Salamon titled "Hospital." This passage caught my ...
Friday, May 16, 2008
Reminder! The Ukrainian Festival
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The Ukrainian Festival starts this afternoon on 7th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenue. Here's a brief on it from The Villager : Ukraini...
Good news!: New York is not one of Relocate-America's top 100 cities to live in the United States
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How embarrassing would that have been? Here's the whole list . Curious, at least, about the top 10 ? 1. Charlotte, N.C. 2. San Antonio, ...
Another day, another small business closes to make way for condos
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The headline from this feature in the Times says it all: From Metalwork to Luxury Condos: Century-Old SoHo Shop Ends Its Run The shop, whi...
New York Times finds that New Yorkers cuss a lot and don't even really notice
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Clyde Haberman takes a look at "fucking" in the Times today (uh, the word): The reality is that this vulgar word has been tossed ...
There are so many great New York movies
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Though this isn't one of them -- Hercules in New York , starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Still, a hoot to watch. At least the highlight r...
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Celebrating Arthur Russell
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Happy to see so much press this week for something worthy of the attention — Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell, the debut feat...
Checking in on "the dildo of darkness" and other sun-blockers in the neighborhood
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The good people at East Village Podcasts bravely took to the streets this past weekend for a video update on the 2,398 hotels and condos sp...
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The New York Post doesn't take kindly to cussers
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Today's front page, from the arbiters of good taste. So you just watch your mouth, OK? No more swearing people!
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