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Sunday, February 22, 2009
Looking at "The French Connection"
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"The French Connection" won five Academy Awards, including for Best Picture and Best Actor (Gene Hackman). In honor of the 1971 c...
"I wouldn't be able to do any of these things without the bus"
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The Daily News has a brief on the M8 protest yesterday. Anyone go to the event? More than 100 bus riders urged the MTA Saturday to keep th...
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Saturday, February 21, 2009
What's doing in San Francisco?
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This Page 1 article in the San Francisco Chronicle today caught my attention...: It's one of the seediest stretches in San Francisco,...
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Wall Street afterlife: "Because even sad clowns are a hoot at a birthday party"
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From the Times today : This week’s news that the city plans to spend $45 million to retrain jobless Wall Street executives may, understanda...
Friday, February 20, 2009
All this and more
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Happy birthday , Cheetah Chrome. The Dead Boys.
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EV Grieve Etc: Mourning Edition
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M8 rally tomorrow ( Colonnade Row ) Last chance weekend at Etherea ( Stupefaction ) Tenants at 47 E. Third St. have until Aug. 31 to vacate ...
"Disappearing Manhattan" and opium chitchat with the Bourdainster (and is the Brooklyn Bridge going to disappear?)
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The Anthony Bourdain/"No Reservations"/Travel Channel site posted more information on their "Disappearing Manhattan" e...
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Why getting around the Financial District is so fun!
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Need to get somewhere in a jiffy? You'll be better off, oh, crawling. Pearl Street! Liberty Street! Maiden Lane! Wall Street! Fulton Str...
Report: In this recession, not even beer is recession-proof
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This chart makes my head hurt. Still! According to FiveThirtyEight.com , who broke this story: As you can see, there has generally not been ...
Note taped to the front door of the week
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Somewhere in the East Village.
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LES dawn... sunrise over Williamsburg
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Here's the latest work from filmmaker Paul Dougherty . He explains the video: "I'm not keen on the new luxury towers cropping u...
Why you won't be seeing some high school productions of "Rent"
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As the Times reports today : Theater directors and students at more than 40 high schools across the country have selected a new show for th...
Dumpster of the day
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East Second Street near Avenue A.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Is Walmart sniffing around Union Square?
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Maybe! Patrick Hedlund has the story in his Mixed Use column this week in The Villager. Best Buy's name has also been floated, he rep...
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"Coney Island will be open for business in 2009"
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I'm reprinting a comment left by Electricia on my Coney Island post from this morning: Your observation that you ran into about 50 peop...
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EV Grieve Etc: Mourning Edition
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Looking back at the murder of Lee Morgan, gunned down at Slug's on Third Street and Avenue C ( This Ain't the Summer of Love ) About...
At Coney Island
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I've been following the development hell that is Coney Island of late. (If you're not up to speed, on Tuesday, the Times had a dece...
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Jim Jarmusch set to test our "Limits"
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Here's an update on the next project by LES resident Jim Jarmsuch , who hasn't made a good film since " Permanent Vacation .&qu...
This week's sign of the apocalypse
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[Via Gothamist ]
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An important update on fast-food mascots
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In the Subway post from yesterday , a commenter mentioned that Quiznos had/has a rat for a mascot. Heh. Well, I dunno . There was the Quizno...
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East Seventh Street, 5:54 p.m., Feb. 18
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McSorley's celebrated its 155th (or 147th) anniversary last night . Not the horror show that I expected (police barricades, barfing in ...
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009
EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning edition
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NYU President John Sexton not a supporter of lowering the national drinking age ( Washington Square News ) Coping with the collapse ( Boing...
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The challenges of making the Sex and the City sequel "recession-friendly"
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US Weekly has this press release from Access Hollywood: Sarah Jessica Parker says it's a challenge making the Sex and the City sequel ...
Whatever happened to the Two Boots Restaurant? Plus: NYCHA puts up two prime storefronts on Avenue A for rent
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BoweryBoogie had an update on Two Boots LES (still closed!) yesterday. Meanwhile, I never did get my arms everything that had happened with...
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Nino's is back in business; hearts float over the East Village
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Nino's on Avenue A and St. Mark's was back open yesterday after a temporary closure by the DOH ...(and yes -- the naked Santa is st...
However, the impact it could have on the lines for brunch at Prune has yet to be determined
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A little something to take your mind off the recession. From the City Room : "A report released on Tuesday concluded that the city’s av...
It's Feb. 18, and we've already exceeded our quota for stories on Subway for 2009
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First, sorry! Anyway, we're just admiring the original deals that Blimpie's and Subway have going right now...and, in my estimation...
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The last weekly issue of Page Six Magazine: Meet the "Recession Vultures"
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The last weekly issue of Page Six Magazine didn't fail to disappoint this week. The winner is the story titled "New York's: Re...
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Former Vasmay Lounge space is now the Local 269
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So, when did this pop up...? I swear it wasn't here Friday...The Local 269 was open for business last night at Houston and Suffolk on t...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
The bar at Cedar Tavern is moving to Austin, Texas
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Grub Street's Daniel Maurer has the scoop on the fate of the beloved Cedar Tavern on University Place. No surprise. "Longtime owne...
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