Dee Dee Ramone in 1994. For a Friday.
Friday, August 29, 2008
"Apparently they will be serving beer in Hell"
That's Gawker commenter seancasio's reaction to news that Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt, "the tumbleweeds from MTV's high-gloss people-spoof The Hills," are planning on opening an "upscale sports lounge" on 29th Street and Third Avenue in Murray Hill. [W via Gawker]
The grittiest, most realistic 90 seconds of any film ever set in New York City
Unfortunately, I couldn't find the particular clip that I was looking for from Taxi Driver. Or The French Connection. Or Sweet Smell of Success. Or...
But! We do have Weekend at Bernie's. Which is appropriate since this classic from 1989 is set during Labor Day weekend. I'm still trying to figure out what route our heroes took to work...
Meanwhile,...I can't remember what the critics thought. They loved it too, right?
Oh.
But! We do have Weekend at Bernie's. Which is appropriate since this classic from 1989 is set during Labor Day weekend. I'm still trying to figure out what route our heroes took to work...
Meanwhile,...I can't remember what the critics thought. They loved it too, right?
Oh.
Going away this weekend...
...or are you having, in the words of the Times, a "staycation?" As the paper notes:
It is a ridiculous word, but that hasn’t stopped the sprouting of so many Web sites with perky “I ♥ N.Y.” staycation ideas — Circle Line, a museum visit, a tenement tour and bialy on the Lower East Side.
And, admittedly, it’s a very fun word to say. Staycation. How was your staycation? My parents went on staycation, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt. Our son-in-law threw his back out on staycation.
As is so often the case, this new thing is nothing new in many parts of New York City. It’s just that it was never named by those level-headed working men and women who do not need a tarted-up pseudoword to enjoy a nice week without work.
Giving thanks to Mixed Use
Thank you to Patrick Hedlund at The Villager who wrote about this site and Bowery Boogie in his Mixed Use column this week.
[By the way, the photo is by Helen Levitt from 1971. Find 24 of her photos of New York City street scenes from seven decades right here.]
Scoopy sees the Christodora's fabled swimming pool
In The Villager this week, Scoopy gets a guided tour of the Christodora's fabled swimming pool and gym. He reports:
Wanting to get to the bottom of this mystery once and for all, this week we found ourselves gazing into an empty, gray, 50-foot-long pool in Christodora House’s basement. It was 8 feet deep at one end and sloped up from the center to a shallow depth at the other end. From the looks of it, it hadn’t been used for 50 years.
We also toured an adjacent gym with decrepit, old basketball backboards without rims and a high, cement-slab ceiling barely hanging onto rusted rebar and looking like it was about to come crashing down any second. The gym and pool spaces are zoned for community-facility use, meaning they could be offices for doctors or nonprofit groups. But, according to our tour guide, the building isn’t under any obligation or deadline to rent these spaces. In fact, Christodora tried to convert the gym to residential use a few years ago, but the city’s Board of Standards and Appeals rejected the condo tower’s hardship application.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
More fancy $12 cocktails coming to "the Lower East Village"
Eater brings news of Ella, the newest nightspot on the "Lower East Village," as its owners are calling the area. The bar will be at the site of the former Julep at 9 Avenue, next door to the Library.
A list of $12 specialty cocktails, such as the Plum Gin Fizz (Muddled sour plum, 2oz Gin, splash of simple syrup, splash of lemon juice, shaken in a Collins glass) will be served nightly. Bottles of beer are $7 and glasses of wine will range from $10 to $20.
"The Ella staff will fit the theme dressed in classic sexy and sophisticated 1920's attire."
BREAKING: Bed bugs infiltrating bedroom(s) of Avenue B
Looks like just another unassuming pile of trash of the curb on Avenue B, just past the Christodora, right?
Well, LOOK CLOSER!
[On Avenue B, between 9th Street and 10th Street]
Well, LOOK CLOSER!
[On Avenue B, between 9th Street and 10th Street]
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