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  • W Hotel’s Instagram Exhibit Offers Tourists a Slice of NY

    NYConvergence.com
    NYConvergence
    6 May 2012 | 1:04 pm
    A dress worn by female impersonator Ivy Winters was the hit of the opening night party at the W Hotel’s Living Room Lounge last week. The dress—made of photos taken by Instagram artist Theo Sickels—was velcroed together. Sickels’s favorite sunset photos were displayed front and center. “They had to go over the boobs,” Winters told The Wall Street Journal. The show features the work of Instagram photographers who captured a side of the city that tourists staying in Times Square might never get to see. W’s General Manager Jim McPartlin saidthe show was designed offer the next big…

  • A Better Pro Bono Plan

    NYT > New York
    12 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    If New York begins a free legal-services program, the burden should be shared either by all lawyers or by taxpayers generally.

  • Senator Thomas Libous Is Subject of Ethics Inquiry

    NYT > N.Y. / Region
    By DANNY HAKIM
    16 May 2012 | 10:40 am
    An inquiry of State Senator Thomas W. Libous, a Binghamton Republican, is the first known review of a case involving a legislator by the new Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

  • 'London Whale' leaving JPMorgan: report

    NY Post: News
    16 May 2012 | 1:28 pm
    The JPMorgan Chase trader who is believed to have placed a massive bet that resulted in at least $2 billion in losses is leaving the bank, according to a new report. It is unclear when Bruno Michel Iksil will depart. A bank spokeswoman told The New York Times that Iksil...

  • 1,000,000,000 international tourists in 2012

    Daily News - News
    16 May 2012 | 1:51 pm
    More than one billion tourists will take a trip this year crossing an international boundary, a threshold never before reached, UN officials told a meeting tourism ministers gathering in Mexico this week.
 
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  • 'London Whale' leaving JPMorgan: report

    16 May 2012 | 1:28 pm
    The JPMorgan Chase trader who is believed to have placed a massive bet that resulted in at least $2 billion in losses is leaving the bank, according to a new report. It is unclear when Bruno Michel Iksil will depart. A bank spokeswoman told The New York Times that Iksil...

  • Congress looks at potential terror threats from airport employees

    16 May 2012 | 1:28 pm
    WASHINGTON — Commercial air travel is at risk from terrorists who quietly get jobs at airports so that they can attack from within sensitive areas, a senior Homeland Security Department official told lawmakers Wednesday. There has never been such an instance, but a security supervisor at Newark Liberty Airport is facing...

  • Bloomberg says Quinn would be 'a very good mayor'

    By DAVID SEIFMAN
    16 May 2012 | 1:27 pm
    Three days before she's scheduled to walk down the aisle, City Council Speaker Christine Christine Quinn got a mighty nice gift from Mayor Bloomberg — a virtual endorsement to become his successor. "Chris Quinn is very competent and would be a very good mayor," Bloomberg declared today. He was responding...

  • Defense rests without calling Edwards, his daughter or mistress

    By TARA PALMERI
    16 May 2012 | 1:25 pm
    GREENSBORO, NC — John Edwards’ defense team abruptly rested its case today without calling the one-time Democratic presidential hopeful, his dutiful daughter Cate or zany mistress Rielle Hunter to the stand. Instead, both the defense and prosecution agreed to a number of stipulations -- clarifying various points of evidence introduced over...

  • Judge hikes bail on alleged West Village rapist after new video surveillance found

    By LAURA ITALIANO
    16 May 2012 | 1:09 pm
    A Manhattan judge nearly doubled the bail on the career con charged with raping a drunken, woman in a West Village stairwell. Clear sidewalk surveillance video of the attack has turned up supporting the case against accused sex fiend Ivan Ramos, prosecutors said in arguing successfully that bail be hiked...
 
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  • Police Bust 14 In Queens, Brooklyn Auto Theft Ring

    16 May 2012 | 12:23 pm
    A year-long investigation led by the NYPD and state Attorney General's office has ended in the arrests of 14 people who law enforcement officials say used portable computers to steal Toyotas and high-end Lexus models off Brooklyn and Queens streets.

  • Reward Offered After Two Pull Knife On Livery Driver

    16 May 2012 | 12:16 pm
    The New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers is offering a $1,000 reward to anyone with information after a livery cab driver was robbed at knifepoint Tuesday by two passengers heading to the Bronx.

  • Citi Field Poised To Host 2013 All-Star Game

    16 May 2012 | 11:53 am
    City and Major League Baseball officials announced this morning that Citi Field will be the site of next year's All-Star Game, ending a long drought for the Mets who last hosted the Mid-Summer Classic in 1964.

  • Small Budget "Virginia" Has Big Draw At SoHo Premiere

    16 May 2012 | 11:50 am
    Actor Jennifer Connelly walked the red carpet in SoHo this week for the premiere of "Virginia", written and directed by fellow Academy Award winner Dustin Lance Black.

  • Brooklyn Botanic Garden Opens Green Visitors Center

    16 May 2012 | 10:24 am
    The Brooklyn Botanic Garden on Wednesday opened its new 20,000 square foot visitors welcome center which features Geo-thermal technology and a leaf-shaped event space for weddings and other community events.
 
 
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  • ‘Bring It On’ The Musical Tumbles Onto Broadway

    julieparise
    16 May 2012 | 1:37 pm
    NEW YORK (AP) – Cheerleaders are coming back to Broadway. Producers announced Wednesday that “Bring It On: The Musical” will form a complex pyramid in New York as part of the show’s 13-city national tour. Its new 12-week stand at the St. James Theatre is set to begin July 12 with an official opening planned for Aug. 1. More: Spring’s 5 Best Broadway Musicals The musical, which which is written by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Amanda Green and Tom Kitt, is based on the popular cheerleading movies. It will tumble back on the road after its Oct. 7 show. The last time…

  • 70 Acts Vie For Spot In MTA’s Music Under New York Program

    mzielinska
    16 May 2012 | 1:31 pm
    NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – From mariachi bands to brass quartets, 70 acts auditioned at Grand Central Terminal on Wednesday for a coveted spot in the MTA’s Music Under New York program. Each act was given five minutes to impress the judges, who will select up to 20 acts to join the MUNY roster which currently features more than 350 artists. 1010 WINS’ Glenn Schuck reports The acts were judged on quality, variety, and appropriateness for the mass transit environment. “I think it’s great culturally, I think we bring something different, I think it’s an awesome…

  • It’s Official: Mets To Host 2013 MLB All-Star Game At Citi Field

    ccolton
    16 May 2012 | 1:30 pm
    NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — The last time Flushing hosted an All-Star game, the Mets were the new kids in town — and Shea Stadium was in its infancy. WCBS 880′s Rich Lamb On The Story Two World Series titles and nearly 50 years later, the Midsummer Classic is coming back to Queens. On Wednesday, Major League Baseball finally announced the Mets will host the 2013 All-Star game at Citi Field. MLB Commissioner Bud Selig made it official at City Hall — under the watchful eye of Mr. Met — with team owner Fred Wilpon and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg also behind the…

  • Kallas: The Latest On The Roger Clemens Trial

    Colin Kelly
    16 May 2012 | 1:26 pm
    By Steve Kallas » More Columns In the federal courtroom of Judge Reggie Walton in Washington, D.C., the cross-examination of star witness (against Roger Clemens) Brian McNamee by lawyer Rusty Hardin continued today in a morning-only session.  So far (the very end of trial on Monday and the morning-only session on Tuesday), we certainly have not seen the kind of withering cross-examination that was expected by lead defense counsel Rusty Hardin. To this writer, Brian McNamee, for the most part, has come across as a believable witness in a tough spot.  Remember, when you look at the history…

  • USGA Museum Burglarized In New Jersey

    Jesse
    16 May 2012 | 1:22 pm
    BERNARDSVILLE TOWNSHIP, N.J. (CBSNewYork) – Police are investigating a robbery at the USGA Museum. A spokesperson for the museum told CBS 2 that two artifacts were stolen. Masked thieves targeted the museum overnight. They smashed in through a window and stole the objects. “The incident is very unfortunate. The good news is that thankfully nobody was hurt as a result of the burglary,” said Joe Goode of the USGA Museum. Somerset County Prosecutor Geoffrey D. Soriano said the burglary went down at around 2:39 a.m. Soriano said officers responding to the scene found several…
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  • Marlen Esparza Becomes U.S.'s First Woman Olympic Boxer

    SAM SCHULZ
    16 May 2012 | 1:00 pm
    Esparza nabbed her spot at the London games this summer by beating Vietnamese rival Luu Thi Duyen on Tuesday at the Women's World Championships in Qinguangdao, China.Photo Credit: AP

  • Man Stabbed in Brooklyn Public Library

    16 May 2012 | 12:53 pm
    A 53-year-old man was stabbed multiple times in a Brooklyn public library by another man who accused him of using library computers to watch pornography, police said.Photo Credit: Getty Images

  • Clifton Teacher Denies Sexual Assault Allegations

    16 May 2012 | 12:52 pm
    A female Clifton High School history teacher has denied allegations she had sex with a 16-year-old male student on two occasions.Photo Credit: Handout

  • Couple Arrested in L.I. Rape, Attempted Murder

    16 May 2012 | 12:52 pm
    A man and his girlfriend have been arrested in connection with the rape and attempted murder of a 46-year-old woman on Long Island and police are still looking for a third suspect, officials say.

  • Theft Ring Targeted Cars by Color, Model

    SHIMON PROKUPECZ
    16 May 2012 | 12:25 pm
    Authorities have busted an auto theft ring that used New York City as its "giant showroom for stealing cars," taking orders from an international broker who specified what he wanted, down to the model,...
 
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    Curbed National

  • House of the Day: Wacky Postmodern Tries to Attract Eccentrics to SoCal Hills

    Rob Bear
    16 May 2012 | 1:00 pm
    Have a nomination for a jaw-dropping listing that would make a mighty fine House of the Day? Get thee to the tipline and send us your suggestions. We'd love to see what you've got. Click here to view the full photogallery. Location: Agoura, Calif. Price: $1,949,000 The Skinny: Located on the inland side of the Malibu hills, this off-the-wall postmodern manse was constructed in 2000 to a whimsical plan, with even more offbeat color choices. While it may look dated now, the home is currently searching for a buyer with close to $2M to spend, so someone will have to be quite serious about this…

  • TV Time: Daymaker: in fall ABC will debut...

    Sarah Firshein
    16 May 2012 | 12:30 pm
    Daymaker: in fall ABC will debut 666 Park, a new drama in which a young, beautiful couple moves into an exclusive NYC building only to find out that their landlord is the devil (played by Lost's Terry O'Quinn). As Gawker says, "It's the Devil's Advocate at the Dakota instead of a law firm." [Gawker]

  • Magazine Living: Taking Them to Tusk...

    Sarah Firshein
    16 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    The all-American characters of Gary and Elaine have wormed their way into households aplenty thanks to the ingenuity of Molly Erdman, whose Catalog Living blog points to styling curiosities within catalogs. Here now, Erdman does the same for shelter magazine photos. "Martin, you know I'm opposed to stuffed animal bullying as much as anyone, but you have to admit the elephant is kind of a nerd." Photo by Francois Dischinger/House Beautiful

  • Craigslist Chorales: A Craigslist prankster out in L.A....

    Sarah Firshein
    16 May 2012 | 11:15 am
    A Craigslist prankster out in L.A. wants $800 a month for a "Charming Bungalow," a "CRAFTSMAN STYLE THATCHED ROOF BUNGALOW FROM THE EARLY 90s." Doesn't sound to suspect, until you realize that said "charming bungalow" is actually a 12-square-foot Playskool play/dog house and "a skunk lives 10ft from the front door in a skunk hole." [Curbed LA]

  • Controversies: Something to please this project's most...

    Sarah Firshein
    16 May 2012 | 10:45 am
    Something to please this project's most outspoken critics: Frank Gehry has agreed to alter certain parts of his plan for the Eisenhower Memorial in D.C. The revised design includes a main statue of Eisenhower as a standing young man (as opposed to a seated barefoot boy), and two other free-standing sculptures—Eisenhower as general and then president. [Arch Record; previously]
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    nymag.com: Real Estate

  • Margaretville

    6 May 2012 | 10:43 pm
    Woodstock and Bethel get all the love, but nearby Margaretville offers a lot of the same weekend pleasures with less patchouli.

  • Southold

    6 May 2012 | 10:43 pm
    This is a place for people who’d rather avoid the scene of Hamptons-land.

  • Stanford

    6 May 2012 | 10:40 pm
    Nothing stays undiscovered when it’s close to two top destinations and New Yorkers have been taking notice.

  • Ocean Grove

    6 May 2012 | 10:40 pm
    “It definitely has become more of a resort town.”

  • Lavallette

    6 May 2012 | 10:40 pm
    Barely two miles separates Lavallette from Seaside Heights, but it’s far, far away from Snooki-land.
 
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    nyc BLOG estate | Manhattan Real Estate

  • Manhattan Monthly Market Snapshot: April 2012

    11 May 2012 | 10:46 pm
    Marketwide Summary April advanced this Spring's strong contract activity and price gains. Market -wide contract activity is up 19% from last April with strong activity from both condos and co-ops.  Market-wide is even with March but is 10% lower than April 2011,  due to a 15% decrease in condo inventory.  This limited supply is driving condo prices higher and pushing buyers into the co-op market. Condo average price per square foot is the highest it has been since the market's peak in the summer of 2008.    Co-op pricing is down from last year but new buyers in the…

  • Manhattan Rental Market Analysis: April 2012

    11 May 2012 | 8:59 pm
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  • Manhattan Neighborhood Population Increases

    10 May 2012 | 10:32 am
    REBNY Reasearch Senior VP, Mike Slattery reports: According to the Census, New York City’s population reached 8,175,133 in 2010, a modest increase of 2.1% since 2000. However, some neighborhoods had much a higher percent increase in population. In Manhattan, the community districts with the highest percent increases are: Community District Neighborhoods # of additional residents % Increase 2000-2010 1 Battery Park City, Tribeca 26,558 +77.2% 4 Chelsea, Clinton 15,766 +18.0% 5 Midtown   7,645 +17.4% 10 Central Harlem   8,614 + 8.0%   Manhattan Real Estate - nyc BLOG…

  • What's in a Neighborhood Name? Clinton or Hells Kitchen?

    27 Apr 2012 | 11:28 am
    Clinton - Hells Kitchen - Midtown West - West 30's - West 50's Some still argue about the exact boundaries of Hell's Kitchen, but it's commonly considered to run from 34th to 59th Streets and from Eighth Avenue to the Hudson River. The area is also known as Clinton and long-time residents use the two terms interchangeably. Some are proud to call the neighborhod "Hells Kitchen" while some prefer to say Clinton. Yesterday I was showing one of my listings in Clinton/Hells Kitchen. A pre-war Art Deco charmer at Pembroke, 357 West 55th Street. A one bedroom with sunken living room in a circa 1935…

  • Happy Earth Day | Go Green

    22 Apr 2012 | 11:15 am
    Earth photo by Astronaut Sunita Williams related "green" blog posts: Green Real Estate Glossary| nyc BLOG estate | Manhattan Real Estate Green Condo Buildings in Manhattan | nyc BLOG estate | Manhattan Schwab House: Upper West Side Coop Goes Green | nyc BLOG estate Green Concrete at Manhattan Construction Sites | nyc BLOG estate green resources / services New York City Passes Green Legislation the VISIONAIRE: Green luxury living in BPC | nyc BLOG estate property tax abatement for going green  One Jackson Square: Modernist 'Green' Condos  Green- Up" NYC Streets -Plant a Tree …
 
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    The Caucus

  • Romney Campaign Tries to Block Reporters

    By MICHAEL BARBARO and ASHLEY PARKER
    16 May 2012 | 1:07 pm
    The rope line, where Mitt Romney greets voters, becomes part of a tug-of-war between reporters and the campaign.

  • Presidential Ad Wars Kick Into Full Swing

    By JEREMY W. PETERS
    16 May 2012 | 11:59 am
    The presidential advertising wars have begun in earnest, with the latest salvo -  a $25 million attack on President Obama by a Karl Rove-backed political group -  set to begin on Thursday.

  • Obama Campaign Announces Raising $43.6 Million in April

    By MICHAEL D. SHEAR
    16 May 2012 | 6:19 am
    President Obama and the Democrats raised $43.6 million in April, adding to the president's edge over his rival, Mitt Romney, even as money continues to pour in to outside groups ahead of the fall campaign.

  • Bush and Clinton Team Up for 9/11 Memorial Fund-Raiser

    By PETER BAKER
    16 May 2012 | 5:43 am
    The odd-bedfellows tandem of George W. Bush and Bill Clinton got together again Tuesday night to promote their latest shared post-presidential cause, a memorial to the heroes of United Flight 93.

  • The Early Word: Debt, Again

    By JADA F. SMITH
    16 May 2012 | 5:00 am
    Political news from today's Times and a look at what's happening in Washington.
 
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    La Daily Musto

  • Michael Fassbender's Penis Cost Him An Oscar Nomination

    16 May 2012 | 1:30 pm
    That's the contention of this GQ profile of the actor, who was getting lots of Oscar buzz for Shame until constant focus on his privates took away from the film's golden glow. The author notes "the

  • Kent McCord: Hunky TV Icon Photo Montage

    16 May 2012 | 12:30 pm
    From 1968 to 1975, Kent McCord costarred with Martin Milner in the hit cop series Adam-12. McCord was a football playing stud who went on to appear in Elvis films and eventually landed the show, whic

  • Drag Queen Dissed By Times Square Karaoke Bar

    16 May 2012 | 11:35 am
    You think the (Double) Standard Hotel was moronic for telling a guy with a ladies' bag that he had to check it because it wasn't gay night? Well, get a load of what William Angel Bailey (Jada Valenci

  • Andy Dick Tells Me: "I'd Be Dead Now If I'd Accepted That Part"

    16 May 2012 | 11:30 am
    In a Q&A in my riveting new column, Andy Dick is as open as the giant bottle of booze that he's not reaching for. Andy told me he's been sober for a while and misses the stuff like crazy, but he's

  • Angelina Wrote The Intro For Billy Bob Thornton's New Book!

    16 May 2012 | 10:30 am
    And it's really loving! Now how is Brad Pitt going to feel about that? The book is The Billy Bob Tapes: A Cave Full of Gosts by Thornton and Kinky Friedman. And Thornton's ex, Angelina Jolie, clink
 
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    Fork in the Road

  • The Flavor Lab: How To Make A Strawberry

    16 May 2012 | 1:00 pm
    John Zhong Wonder how your gum gets that strawberry flavor? The taste of a natural strawberry is made up of over 450 individual molecules. Flavorists need to condense that number because it is their

  • Paying Attention to Dessert at Per Se

    16 May 2012 | 12:30 pm
    Liz BarclayThe chocolate cheesecake at Per SeIt's tradition to basically ignore desserts in restaurant reviews, but this week I wrote about the work of Per Se's pastry chef, Elwyn Boyles. I tasted his

  • Why Is Mario Batali on Food Stamps?

    16 May 2012 | 10:30 am
    Charles HaynesHere's a publicity stunt we can get behind: Mario Batali and his family are eating for a week on a food stamp budget--$31 a person, for the entire week. Batali is protesting budget cuts

  • Free Slurpees and 7-Eleven's New Low-Calorie Addition

    16 May 2012 | 10:00 am
    Free slurpee day is coming up next week. 7-Eleven will be giving away free slurpees Wednesday, May 23, between 11 am - 7 pm in their 7.11 oz size only. The deal comes in the wake of the convenience

  • The Most Beautiful Corn in the World, Seriously

    16 May 2012 | 10:00 am
    Seeds TrustIs it a good day for food when pictures of corn go viral? Sure.
 
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    Baseball - NY Daily News

  • Strasburg can't shake burning sensation vs. Padres

    16 May 2012 | 1:05 pm
    Stephen Strasburg was feeling the heat Tuesday, but it had nothing to do with the velocity of his fastball.

  • Wright Call? Collins pulls David fearing beanball

    16 May 2012 | 12:46 pm
    Mets manager Terry Collins watched the top of the seventh inning unfold and more than 40 years of professional baseball told him he was looking at a bad situation.

  • Mets owner says Wright playing like superstar

    16 May 2012 | 12:38 pm
    Last year team owner Fred Wilpon detonated on his star players, Jose Reyes, Carlos Beltran and David Wright in a New Yorker article, snubbing Wright as not qualified to be called a "superstar."

  • Hardin peppers McNamee about post-PED profits

    16 May 2012 | 11:05 am
    Rusty Hardin its trying to establish for the jury that Brian McNamee profited from his relationship with Roger Clemens and the ensuring scandal that began with the release of the Mitchell Report on drug use in baseball in Dec., 2007.

  • Smith: In this spot, both Mets are Wright

    16 May 2012 | 10:47 am
    The unwritten rule in baseball is a variation on the “eye-for-eye” theme that was first voiced in the Old Testament, “You hit one of ours and we hit one of yours.” Everyone in baseball understands it.
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  • Hardin peppers McNamee about post-PED profits

    16 May 2012 | 11:05 am
    Rusty Hardin its trying to establish for the jury that Brian McNamee profited from his relationship with Roger Clemens and the ensuring scandal that began with the release of the Mitchell Report on drug use in baseball in Dec., 2007.

  • Bomber bats fail Sabathia; Hope is afoot for Nova

    15 May 2012 | 11:38 pm
    Ivan Nova’s right ankle was heavily taped on Tuesday, but the righthander seemed confident he would be able to make his next start Saturday against the Reds.

  • Harper: Soriano faces a save-the-Yankees situation

    15 May 2012 | 8:57 pm
    This is where the Yankee payroll advantage could really pay dividends. Nobody else in baseball has a Rafael Soriano hanging around, ready to take over the ninth-inning duties after two closers have gone down with injuries.

  • O's hand CC first loss in Yanks' 5-2 defeat

    15 May 2012 | 8:57 pm
    The Yankees were held to five hits against Wei-Yin Chen and two relievers, as the Orioles took a 5-2 victory Tuesday to close out the quick two-game set at Camden Yards.

  • Robertson lands on DL with oblique strain

    15 May 2012 | 5:30 pm
    The Yankee bullpen took another hit Tuesday as the Bombers placed David Robertson on the 15-day disabled list with a strained oblique muscle.
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    Mets - NY Daily News

  • Wright Call? Collins pulls David fearing beanball

    16 May 2012 | 12:46 pm
    Mets manager Terry Collins watched the top of the seventh inning unfold and more than 40 years of professional baseball told him he was looking at a bad situation.

  • Mets owner says Wright playing like superstar

    16 May 2012 | 12:38 pm
    Last year team owner Fred Wilpon detonated on his star players, Jose Reyes, Carlos Beltran and David Wright in a New Yorker article, snubbing Wright as not qualified to be called a "superstar."

  • Smith: In this spot, both Mets are Wright

    16 May 2012 | 10:47 am
    The unwritten rule in baseball is a variation on the “eye-for-eye” theme that was first voiced in the Old Testament, “You hit one of ours and we hit one of yours.” Everyone in baseball understands it.

  • MLB All-Stars to light up Citi in 2013

    15 May 2012 | 11:40 pm
    Citi Field will be the site of the 2013 All-Star Game, the first time the Mets have hosted the event since 1964. Commissioner Bud Selig, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Mets principal owner Fred Wilpon will make the announcement Wednesday.

  • Collins says Mets will make way for Bay

    15 May 2012 | 11:39 pm
    Terry Collins knows there’s a dilemma waiting when Jason Bay is healthy enough to return to the Mets.
 
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    New York Yankees News

  • Yanks seek length from Kuroda in Toronto

    Jon Star
    15 May 2012 | 9:45 pm
    Fresh off a two-game series with one team they're chasing in the American League East, the Blue Jays welcome another division pace-setter when the Yankees travel to Rogers Centre for Wednesday's matchup, the first meeting between the two clubs this season.

  • Without much help, CC handed first defeat

    Bryan Hoch
    15 May 2012 | 8:50 pm
    The Yankees' offense lagged against Wei-Yin Chen and the Orioles handed CC Sabathia his first loss of the season, posting a 5-2 victory over New York on Tuesday at Camden Yards.

  • Battling illness, Rapada willing to pitch

    15 May 2012 | 5:44 pm
    Reliever Clay Rapada was expected to be available for the Yankees' series finale at Camden Yards on Tuesday, one day after he had to be helped down the dugout stairs following a dizzy spell.

  • Yankees hope Nova can stay on turn

    15 May 2012 | 5:44 pm
    Ivan Nova said that his sprained right ankle improved overnight and the Yankees right-hander is hopeful that he will be able to make his next turn in the rotation.

  • Recalling history as closer, Soriano confident

    15 May 2012 | 5:44 pm
    Rafael Soriano has been named the Yankees' third closer in the last two weeks, and the right-hander is thrilled to be receiving the assignment.
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    New York Mets News

  • Mets to host 2013 All-Star Game at Citi Field

    Anthony DiComo
    16 May 2012 | 11:12 am
    Major League Baseball and the City of New York announced Wednesday that the Mets will host the 2013 All-Star Game at Citi Field on July 16, 2013.

  • Wright, Collins smooth things over

    Ethan Asofsky
    15 May 2012 | 10:58 pm
    To protect David Wright, manager Terry Collins pinch-hit for his star third baseman, which set up a heated argument between the two in the dugout in between innings.

  • Collins' cool head prevails in heat of moment

    Barry M. Bloom
    15 May 2012 | 10:35 pm
    As the bottom of the seventh inning of Tuesday night's game at Citi Field began, Mets manager Terry Collins said he had only one option in mind: limit the damage.

  • Amid Wright drama, Gee, Mets fall to Crew

    Spencer Fordin
    15 May 2012 | 10:24 pm
    Dillon Gee and the Mets were shut out for just the second time all season. The club may have found a galvanizing force in the loss, however, when manager Terry Collins opted to protect third baseman David Wright.

  • Johan aims to extend success as Mets greet Reds

    Lance Lysowski
    15 May 2012 | 9:50 pm
    Entering Wednesday's matchup against the Mets, Reds starting pitcher Mike Leake is hoping to snap out of the worst stretch of his career, while Johan Santana is trying to build off of a strong outing his last time out.
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  • Ohio State LB picks law school over NFL shot

    16 May 2012 | 12:20 pm
    He may have been an undrafted free agent, but one Ohio State alum's decision to pass on a chance to try out for the Cleveland Browns is stirring debate about the risks of playing in the professional ranks.

  • An official look at Big Blue's Super bling

    16 May 2012 | 11:48 am
    Ten tables wasn't big enough for Justin Tuck. He wanted his second Super Bowl ring to be bigger than that.

  • Namath: Mark’s still best Gang Green QB 

    15 May 2012 | 9:10 pm
    Joe Namath allowed that the Jets’ addition of quarterback Tim Tebow was a positive, but he did not hesitate when stating that Mark Sanchez, the incumbent starter, was new offensive coordinator Tony Sparano’s best option under center.

  • A Giant sneak peek at Big Blue's bling

    15 May 2012 | 1:08 pm
    The Jets can have their three-ring circus. All the Giants need is the ring. Those championship rings will be given to the Super Bowl XLVI champions at a private ceremony on Wednesday night.

  • Tebow on target: Progress pleases Jets

    14 May 2012 | 11:33 pm
    Less than two weeks after Jets offensive coordinator Tony Sparano maintained that Tim Tebow has made “eye-opening” progress over the past couple of seasons, quarterbacks coach Matt Cavanaugh made it clear that he believes the young signal-caller has plenty of upside.
 
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  • Former Knick Ramsey honored by CCNY

    15 May 2012 | 6:27 pm
    The day after President Kennedy was assassinated, Cal Ramsey was running a fastbreak in the old Eastern League when he was accidentally tripped by the former CCNY star, Ed Warner. On the play, Ramsey blew out his right knee and had to say goodbye to his career as a basketball player.

  • Irving is runaway winner as NBA’s top rookie

    15 May 2012 | 9:57 am
    Cavaliers guard Kyrie Irving is the NBA’s Rookie of the Year, winning the award with the same ease as he dribbled past defenders this season.

  • Strain puts ki-Bosh on Heat forward

    14 May 2012 | 9:23 pm
    The Miami Heat still has LeBron James and Dwyane Wade, but it will have to survive for the rest of this playoff round against Indiana without Chris Bosh.

  • Heat will face Pacers minus Bosh

    14 May 2012 | 4:05 pm
    The Miami Heat still has LeBron James and Dwyane Wade, but they’ll have to survive for the rest of this playoff round against Indiana without Chris Bosh.

  • Cavs' Irving named NBA's top rookie

    14 May 2012 | 10:13 am
    Kyrie Irving began his first pro season as the top pick and ended it as the top rookie.
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  • Devils looking to score not maim in Game 2

    16 May 2012 | 11:52 am
    Martin Brodeur clarified an off-the-cuff postgame comment that was interpreted by some as instigating his teammates to aim shots at the heads and ankles of the rival Rangers.

  • Lupica: Kreider now a Varsity Blueshirt

    16 May 2012 | 9:28 am
    There have been other hockey stories at least something like Chris Kreider’s, a kid jumping the kind of speeding train that the New York Rangers are right now.

  • Blueshirts seek two-game cushion vs. Devils

    15 May 2012 | 11:50 pm
    The Rangers have won the opening game in each of their first three playoff rounds. Of course, against Ottawa and Washington, they dropped the subsequent game on home ice each time, and that is a trend they hope to buck Wednesday in Game 2 against the Devils.

  • Big Blue DE Tuck a Giant Ranger fan 

    15 May 2012 | 11:49 pm
    Justin Tuck has been going to Rangers games since 2005, but nobody noticed until last week when Brad Richards scored to tie Game 5 against the Capitals with 7.6 seconds remaining and the Giants’ defensive end . . . went a little nuts.

  • McDonagh is looking like a Blueshirt bargain

    15 May 2012 | 10:03 pm
    It might not quite be the acquisition of Manhattan by Dutch settlers for $24, but the Rangers’ trade for defenseman Ryan McDonagh is starting to look as if it will go down as one of the better deals in New York history.
 
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  • Pregame Notes: Rangers vs. New Jersey

    15 May 2012 | 11:02 pm
    Tonight's Game The Rangers will face-off against the New Jersey Devils tonight at Madison Square Garden (8:00 p.m.), in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Final. The Blueshirts opened up their third round series with a 3-0 win over the Devils in ...

  • Rangers call up six from Connecticut

    15 May 2012 | 2:30 pm
    New York Rangers President and General Manager Glen Sather announced today that the club has recalled six players from the Connecticut Whale of the American Hockey League (AHL) –- goaltender Cam Talbot; defensemen Tim Erixon and Dylan McIlrath; an...

  • Rangers overwhelm Devils in opener

    14 May 2012 | 9:42 pm
    The Devils may have been the team with more rest, but it was the Rangers who came through late in the game Monday night. As a result the Rangers scored a 3-0 victory over the Devils in Game One of the Eastern Conference Finals at Madison Square Ga...

  • Pregame Notes: Rangers vs. New Jersey

    14 May 2012 | 7:44 am
    Tonight's Game The Rangers will face-off against the New Jersey Devils tonight at Madison Square Garden (8:00 p.m.), in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Final. New York is coming off a 2-1 win on Saturday at Madison Square Garden, in Game 7 of ...

  • MSG to air extensive postgame coverage

    13 May 2012 | 12:26 pm
    MSG Networks, the regular-season television home of the Rangers and Devils, will simulcast a one-hour postgame show on MSG and MSG+ following every game between the rival teams in the Eastern Conference Finals starting Monday. The postgame show...
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  • Ohio State LB picks law school over NFL shot

    16 May 2012 | 12:20 pm
    He may have been an undrafted free agent, but one Ohio State alum's decision to pass on a chance to try out for the Cleveland Browns is stirring debate about the risks of playing in the professional ranks.

  • Hoosiers and Heels to square off in ACC/Big Ten

    14 May 2012 | 2:53 pm
    Indiana will host North Carolina in a high-profile showcase for the resurgent Hoosiers during next season’s ACC/Big Ten Challenge.

  • Boeheim and Fine get defeamation suits tossed

    11 May 2012 | 6:38 pm
    On Friday, Jim Boeheim received some positive news, when a judge tossed out a defamation suit filed against him by two of Fine’s accusers.

  • Judge tosses defamation suit vs. Boeheim

    11 May 2012 | 4:57 pm
    Hall of Fame basketball coach Jim Boeheim got some positive news Friday when a judge tossed a defamation suit filed against him by two of Bernie Fine’s accusers..

  • Johnnies reload with new recruits

    9 May 2012 | 11:34 pm
    In his debut season as head coach Steve Lavin guided the St. John's back into the Big Dance, landing the Red Storm in the 2010 NCAA Tournament. The Johnnies lost 10 players off that team. Lavin has now re-stocked the roster.
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  • 13-year-old boy granted permission to play field hockey 

    16 May 2012 | 8:06 am
    A committee in Suffolk County, New York determined that Keeling Pilaro can continue to play a sport that, in the United States, is normally all-female.

  • Top seeds set court date for v-ball finale 

    15 May 2012 | 7:59 pm
    The Academy of American Studies boys volleyball team found itself in an unusual spot after the first two sets of Tuesday’s PSAL semifinals: tied. Bronx Science trailed by six points in the decisive set, but clawed its way back.

  • CHSAA is united on divisions 

    15 May 2012 | 6:30 pm
    Iona Prep, the winner of city and state titles on the "A" level this year, has been promoted to the New York Archdiocese "AA" league while All Hallows has been dropped to the "A" for the 2012-13 season.

  • Tainted youth hoops coach Lorch dead

    15 May 2012 | 6:09 pm
    Ernest Lorch, the founder of the prestigious Riverside Church Hawks basketball program whose legacy was tainted by sexual-abuse allegations, died Sunday at Sunrise Senior Living in Yonkers, N.Y.

  • Torres has Grand ambitions

    13 May 2012 | 7:40 pm
    Tommy Torres was fighting the glare of a bright afternoon sun in East Williamsburg last week as he posed for a picture in a charcoal suit, flipping a baseball with his right hand.
 
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  • U.S. lowers cutoff for lead poisoning in kids

    16 May 2012 | 2:18 pm
    The change means many more children could be diagnosed with high levels of lead in their blood. Too much lead is harmful to developing brains and can mean a lower IQ.

  • 1,000,000,000 international tourists in 2012

    16 May 2012 | 1:51 pm
    More than one billion tourists will take a trip this year crossing an international boundary, a threshold never before reached, UN officials told a meeting tourism ministers gathering in Mexico this week.

  • Mom's happy political War of the Roses ends

    16 May 2012 | 1:43 pm
    ALBANY — The political War of the Roses on Long Island ended with a change of heart — and no one was happier than the woman whose son opted not to challenge his Assemblywoman wife.

  • TNT, TBS see future as 'branded video destination'

    16 May 2012 | 1:36 pm
    The TNT and TBS networks are breaking out a pack of new shows, from the reincarnation of “Dallas” to a spinoff from “The Closer” and a competition challenge for nerds.

  • Steve Powell found guilty of 14 counts of voyeurism 

    16 May 2012 | 1:36 pm
    A jury handling the voyeurism case against the father-in-law of a missing Utah woman reached a verdict Wednesday, minutes after getting a vague answer to a question about the legal standard of “reasonable doubt.”
 
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  • Ed Malloy of Building and Trades remembered by Cuomo

    Casey Seiler, Capitol bureau chief
    16 May 2012 | 1:35 pm
    Here’s Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s statement memorializing Ed Malloy, the former president of the NYC and State Building and Construction Trades councils; Malloy had only recently retired: “Today we mourn the passing of Ed Malloy, who for decades stood up for the working men and women of New York and helped build the state into the great place it is today. “For the years that Ed served as president of the New York City and New York State Building and Construction Trades councils representing over 200,000 union members, he worked tirelessly with public officials, investors, and…

  • Cuomo releases proposal for non-profit pay cap

    Rick Karlin, Capitol bureau
    16 May 2012 | 12:56 pm
    This has been a longstanding issue and its coming a bit late. The proposal also includes provisions for waivers, which appears to be a nod toward the state’s powerful hospital lobby which pays its top people way beyond the broad $199,000 cap these regulations are calling for. Either way, Cuomo has put out its plan to regulate and limit to $199,000 the pay of directors of not-for-profit groups. Here are the details, which will now be open to public review before state agencies such as the Health Department put them into effect. It doesn’t appear that the Legislature needs to…

  • Cuomo feels ‘very good’ about school budget votes

    Jimmy Vielkind, Capitol bureau
    16 May 2012 | 12:13 pm
    Most school budgets passed last night — New York State United Teachers estimates the statewide total was 96 percent — in the first votes since the state imposed a two percent cap on increases to the property tax levy. “We feel very good about it,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in Syracuse. “Everywhere I go I get more complaints about property taxes than any other single issue.” He said the tax cap “brought fiscal discipline to these discussions on budgets, and the automatic increase — which at one time were four, five, six percent per year … went down to like two…

  • Disabled protection measure sails through Senate

    Rick Karlin, Capitol bureau
    16 May 2012 | 11:41 am
    The state Senate just passed without debate a measure devised by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to create a new Justice Center as well tougher regulations and guidelines designed to protect vulnerable and disabled people from abuse and neglect by those who are supposed to be taking care of them. Actually, the bill went by so quickly that senators, who appeared anxious to end their morning session (today, Wednesday, is known as a “go home day” in legislative parlance, or the last session day of the week in which lawmakers tend to wrap up their business early and hit the road). Just as the bill…

  • AG: Those shoes won’t make you more toned

    Casey Seiler, Capitol bureau chief
    16 May 2012 | 11:40 am
    Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has announced a “record” $45 million dollar nationwide settlement with Skechers USA, Inc. to end what has been determined to be the company’s deceptive marketing of brands such as Shape-Ups, Tone-Ups and the Skechers Resistance Runner athletic shoes. Under the settlements reached with New York, 44 states and the Federal Trade Commission, up to $40 million is being allocated for refunds to be paid back to consumers who purchased the shoes, and Skechers will pay an additional $5 million to the states. Did Schneiderman manage to get some…
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  • 5 Cocktails To Try This Summer: From Kale To Lobster Claws

    Jen Carlson
    16 May 2012 | 2:07 pm
    If you want to stand up and step away from that Bud Lite Lime-a-rita and have a grown-up drink this summer, may we recommend the following five? From kale to lobster claws, click through for the cocktails we're putting on our Summer To Do List. [ more › ]      

  • Photos: Mr. Met Joins Mayor Bloomberg To Announce Citi Field Will Host 2013 All-Star Game

    Ben Yakas
    16 May 2012 | 1:54 pm
            The Blue Room at City Hall was an especially appropriate setting today for the announcement that the Mets will host the 2013 All-Star Game. Mayor Bloomberg was joined by MLB commissioner Bud Selig, Mets owner Fred Wilpon, Mets COO Jeff Wilpon, MLB Executive Vice President Joe Torre, and Citi Field's most beloved resident Mr. Met to make the announcement. "Competition for All-Star Games over the last five years has been enormous," Selig said during the press conference. "The new ballpark, Citi Field, that was certainly a primary reason for it. It was…

  • Pizza With A Side Of Oxy: LI Man Accused Of Selling Prescription Drugs At His Pizzeria

    Jen Chung
    16 May 2012 | 1:32 pm
    A Long Island pizzeria owner was arrested yesterday as authorities allege that he was selling illegal prescription drugs from the eatery. Newsday reports, "Francesco Miceli of Miceli Brothers Pizzeria was charged with multiple counts of criminal sale and criminal possession of a controlled substance." [ more › ]

  • Chung-Chung: Best Law & Order Food Tumblr EVER!

    Jen Chung
    16 May 2012 | 1:20 pm
           Finally, someone has created a Tumblr that documents Very Important Moments in Law & Order. No, not the screen cards that show the various fake addresses (600 West 78th Street would be in the Hudson River!)—the Law & Order & Food Tumblr has screengrabs of Law & Order characters eating food. Time to feast your eyes on Detective Lennie Briscoe eating some street meat! [ more › ]

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  • B/D/F/M subways disrupted overnight this week

    14 May 2012 | 3:17 pm
    The Metropolitan Transportation Authority tonight will begin another series of FASTRACK overnight work, disrupting service on major sections of the B/D/F/M lines from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. B and M service will end early while F and D trains will be rerouted between 59th Street/Columbus Circle and W. 4th Street. See the MTA’s list of service changes for the details. All service will be completely back to normal by Friday morning at 5 a.m. The FASTRACK program, which started earlier this year, has allowed MTA workers to inspect hundreds of signals and switches, repair water damage, track…

  • Intrepid free screenings start with 'Top Gun' on deck

    14 May 2012 | 2:22 pm
    Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum will kick off its series of free summer movies with a Fleet Week screening of “Top Gun” on the flight deck of the museum’s namesake aircraft carrier. Another highlight, the July 20th screening of “Star Trek” will coincide with the opening celebration for the museum’s Space Shuttle Pavilion. Admission to the movie night will remain free, a museum spokesman confirmed to NewYorkology. On movie nights, doors will open at 7:30 p.m. with members of the public invited to bring their own lawn chairs, blankets, food and…

  • Bryant Park Film Fest includes 'Pscyho,' 'All About Eve'

    14 May 2012 | 1:41 pm
    The HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival today announced the schedule of movies for its free Monday night series. On Monday movie nights, the gravel area surrounding the Bryant Park lawn opens at 4 p.m. with access to the lawn starting at 5 p.m. (following bag inspection.) Films begin at sunset, usually between between 8 and 9 p.m. The 2012 Bryant Park free outdoor movie schedule: June 18 - “Psycho” June 25 - “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” July 2 - “The Wizard of Oz” July 9 - “On the Waterfront” July 16 - “Roman Holiday” July…

  • Enterprise removed from 747 at JFK

    13 May 2012 | 8:36 am
    Early this morning at John F. Kennedy International Airport, the the space shuttle Enterprise was demated from the NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft that transported it to New York in April. The demating process — a crane and sling project — brings the shuttle closer to its July 19 public debut date at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. The shuttle test vehicle is tentatively scheduled to travel to the museum by barge from June 4 through 6. Picture credit: Courtesy Intrepid Museum. Earlier: Enterprise barge trip tentatively set for June 4-6 Space shuttle Enterprise lands in…

  • Zooey Deschanel to star in 'Coal Miner's Daughter'

    11 May 2012 | 7:12 am
    Zooey Deschanel will star in the Broadway-bound stage adaptation of “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” country music singer (and coal-miner’s daughter) Loretta Lynn said Thursday. Publicists said Lynn made the announcement in Nashville, where she was joined onstage by Deschanel for a duet of “Coal Miner’s Daughter.” In 1979, Lynne held a similar news conference at the Grand Ole Opry to announce Sissy Spacek would star in the movie adaptation of Lynne’s autobiographical song “Coal Miner’s Daughter.” “It’s a long way from Butcher Holler to Broadway in…
 
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  • Australian Ballet Is More Popular Than Ever But Can't Capitalize On It

    ArtsJournal
    16 May 2012 | 2:47 pm
    "Record numbers of people are subscribing to the Australian Ballet but box office takings have plateaued because the company can't add more performances to its schedules or seats to its theatres." Sydney Morning Herald 05/17/12

  • The Master Paper-Cutter Of The New York Subways

    ArtsJournal
    16 May 2012 | 2:04 pm
    "In the congested world of subway performers, where dance troupes, conga circles and violin players blur, Ming Liang Lu, 57, is an alluring presence. A self-described 'master paper portrait cutter,' he has the ability to trim facial portraits out of frail paper within minutes, compelling some riders to willingly miss their trains." The New York Times 05/16/12

  • The New Yorker Launches Beefed-Up Books Blog Called 'Page-Turner'

    ArtsJournal
    16 May 2012 | 1:59 pm
    "We'll debate about books under-noticed or too much noticed, and celebrate writers we've ... We'll recommend and we'll theorize. Daily essays will be the blog's mainstay, with books as an anchor for wide-ranging cultural comment." The New Yorker 05/15/12

  • LA Times Magazine Closing Down

    ArtsJournal
    16 May 2012 | 1:53 pm
    The monthly's editor, Nancie Clare, says, "I think it's fair to say there were revenue issues ... I don't think they got rid of us because they don't like us." The magazine's seven staffers may or may not be offered jobs elsewhere at the newspaper. FishbowlLA (mediabistro) 05/15/12

  • Sacramento Philharmonic Saves Its 2012-13 Season

    ArtsJournal
    16 May 2012 | 11:36 am
    "The Sacramento Philharmonic reached its goal of raising $150,000 by a self-imposed May 15 deadline, persuading the organization's board of directors to vote Tuesday evening to keep the orchestra operating through the 2012-13 season." Sacramento Bee 05/16/12
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  • Rumormongering: Speaking of rumors, Grub Street wonders...

    Greg Morabito
    16 May 2012 | 1:00 pm
    Speaking of rumors, Grub Street wonders if L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon might be closing soon. The word on the street is that the Four Seasons is shopping around for a new restaurant to fill the space. There have been whispers of this deal for a few weeks now, and Eater Vegas hears that the Las Vegas location might close for a revamp too. [GS, Eater Vegas]

  • Rumormongering: John Fraser Rumored for the Standard East Village

    Greg Morabito
    16 May 2012 | 12:35 pm
    For weeks, Eater sources have been buzzing about John Fraser's involvement in the Standard East Village hotel, and just yesterday, industry gossip mill ChompChump returned from its one year hiatus with some juicy intel about the deal. The blog notes that the Dovetail chef is "an uncrossed T and an I shy of a dot away from having food and beverage at Andre East." Apparently, the new place will have a rotisserie theme. For those unfamiliar with ChompChump, it's the mysterious blog that accurately predicted the EMP sale, the Acme revamp, the shuttering of Kenmare, and the opening of Tertulia, to…

  • Roasts: Tonight, GQ editor-in-chief Jim Nelson, Anthony...

    Amanda Kludt
    16 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    Tonight, GQ editor-in-chief Jim Nelson, Anthony Bourdain, chefs Dave Chang and Eric Ripert, the Four Seasons' Julian Niccolini, and writers Sam Sifton, Frank Bruni, and Lettie Teague will gather together at Le Bernardin to roast sometimes controversial writer, food critic, and lover of Brooklyn Alan Richman on his 25th anniversary with the mag. Hopefully, they'll send a last second invite to Bloomberg critic Ryan Sutton. [EaterWire]

  • Expansions: Upper West Siders fought hard to...

    Hannah Norwick
    16 May 2012 | 11:20 am
    Upper West Siders fought hard to keep Sugar and Plumm Purveyors of Yumm out of the neighborhood to no avail, and now the sweets shop is opening a second spot in the Village, writes Jeremiah's Vanishing NY. The new location is slated to open somewhere near the intersection of Cornelia and Bleecker streets, possibly across from Murray's Cheese Shop. [JVNY]

  • Nomadness: The Roof of the Nomad to Serve $125 5-Course Tasting

    Greg Morabito
    16 May 2012 | 10:45 am
    [The roof, during a Manhattan Cocktail Classic event this past weekend] Holy. Bananas. Daniel Humm and Will Guidara have finally revealed what they've got planned for the swanky outdoor roof space of their instant-hit, The Nomad. The Times reports that in three weeks, the duo will start serving five course tasting menus for $125 per person up on the roof. Humm & Guidara will offer tickets to these dinners each morning at 11 a.m. for that evening's meal. So, if it's going to rain that night, no tickets will be available. The rooftop space includes a small kitchen, and an indoor lobby area with…
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  • Storecasting: The Reformation Is Bringing Refurbished Vintage to Soho

    Izzy Grinspan
    16 May 2012 | 1:26 pm
    The canoe display table at the Lower East Side store It's been less than a year since The Reformation opened its surprisingly expansive Ludlow Street location, but designer Yael Aflalo is already planning a second New York store. The label, which specializes in sexy, on-trend pieces made from repurposed fabrics, has signed a lease for a space on Howard and Crosby. Aflalo says she feels like there should be more stores that give people the option to buy something sustainably made. There's no word on an opening date yet, but we'll keep you posted. · Surprise! The Reformation's New Ludlow…

  • Hell Hath No Fury: Here's a word of advice for...

    Tiffany Yannetta
    16 May 2012 | 1:00 pm
    Here's a word of advice for anyone eager to enter the world of public relations: Don't steal from Kelly Cutrone. Never one to mince words, she tweeted yesterday: "One of my old assistants is getting arrested this week for grand larceny – stealing money from People's - cannot wait - revenge is sweet." Based off of another tweet, this person is probably @HussyChildPlz. Still, just to be clear, she later wrote that it's not Andrew Mukamal. [Fashionista]

  • Street Scenes: Yelena on Water Street and Main Street

    Izzy Grinspan
    16 May 2012 | 12:30 pm
    Today's Street Scenes subject is Yelena, shot on the corner of Water Street and Main Street in Dumbo. Feel free to vote on whether you like or dislike her outfit below. Your choices are 'Perfection!,' 'I feel strangely ambivalent about it,' or 'Who did this to you?' Photo by Jerri Howell Yelena is wearing a dress by Jason Wu for Target, Via Spiga shoes, and Miyagi glasses. Her bag is Marc by Marc Jacobs. Our polls require javascript -- if you're viewing this in an RSS reader, click through to view in your javascript-enabled web browser. More Street Scenes

  • Buy It Now: Eight Bags That Are Begging to Be Taken to the Beach

    Tiffany Yannetta
    16 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    Click here to view the full photogallery. Memorial Day Weekend is just around the corner, meaning you not only need to buy your beach attire, but you need to buy something to put it all in. So, you need a beach bag—something that can withstand the heat, the sand, and the margarita you'll spill on it. We've rounded up eight in the gallery above from the likes of Kate Spade, Marc by Marc Jacobs, and C.Wonder. Now, you just need to make that Zipcar reservation. · All Buy It Now Posts [Racked NY]

  • Good Causes: Zach Galifianakis Gave the Kiehl's Skeleton a Makeover

    Tiffany Yannetta
    16 May 2012 | 11:10 am
    For those who might not have known this, Kiehl's has a mascot. It's a skeleton called Mr. Bones who, apparently, has been long overdue for a makeover. The skincare brand has enlisted the help of 13 celebrities for the task, and as a thank you, Kiehl's will donate $200,000 to their charity of choice. Some of the participants include Zach Galifianakis, Terry Richardson, Costello Tagliapietra, Alicia Keys, and Padma Lakshmi. The NYDN previewed the skeletons last night, and report that Zach Galifianakis' is covered in old stamps, and Padma Lakshmi's has food products on it. The skeletons will be…
 
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  • Vogue Australia’s Editor-in-Chief Kirstie Clements Doesn’t Work There Anymore

    16 May 2012 | 1:30 pm
    Clements was "sacked," as the Sydney Morning Herald puts it, after running the magazine for ten years. She will be replaced by Edwina McCann, editor-in-chief of competing glossy Australian Harper's Bazaar. McCann said, "I started my career at Vogue and I am very excited about returning to work for the ... More »

  • Kate Moss Did Some Hilarious Things Last Night

    16 May 2012 | 1:17 pm
    Kate Moss waltzed into last night's Marie Curie Cancer Care fund-raiser in London draped over the shoulder of her husband of almost a year, Jamie Hince, and proceeded to amuse herself with various antics in between bouts of extreme boredom. First she stole photographer David Bailey's very large camera so that ... More »

  • Michelle Obama Wore Moschino to Kick It With David Beckham

    16 May 2012 | 12:45 pm
    Michelle Obama wore a white Moschino top with an Alaïa belt and black pants to host a Let's Move! event honoring the L.A. Galaxy soccer team at the White House yesterday. And on Monday, she wore a striped shirt and black blazer to address the 2012 Team USA Media Summit ... More »

  • Agyness Deyn to Star in Sunset Song

    16 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    An adaptation of the 1932 novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, the movie will also star Peter Mullan and will be directed by Terence Davies. The model has been tapped to play Chris Guthrie, a young woman who rallies her Scottish farming family ahead of the First World War. Deyn told ... More »

  • Karl Lagerfeld ‘I Am a Brain-Bodybuilder. Schwarzenegger of the Brain’

    16 May 2012 | 11:45 am
    More and more Karl Lagerfeld quotes from this week's Chanel cruise show are trickling onto the Internet, with the latest coming from today's Telegraph, whose reporter asked the designer about France's new socialist president. While Lagerfeld understands the irony of staging a Marie Antoinette–themed collection on the eve of François Hollande's inauguration, he ... More »
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  • Google-Funded Pundit: Forget Transit, the Future Belongs to Robocars

    Angie Schmitt
    16 May 2012 | 1:24 pm
    Last week Salon ran a pretty horrendous piece on the future of transportation called “Oops — Wrong Future.” Members of the Google robocar team. Photo: Inhabitat Writer Michael Lind argued that the “case for infrastructure investment has suffered from the lack of a plausible vision of the next American infrastructure.” Things that are not “plausible,” according to Lind, include “renewable energy and mass transit.” He wrote: The idea that the U.S. could transition quickly from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources like wind power and…

  • The Spatial Payoff of NYC Bike-Share

    Ben Fried
    16 May 2012 | 11:51 am
    The curb space taken up by five standard parallel parking spots can accommodate 39 bike-share docks. Photo of Remsen Street in Brooklyn Heights: Doug Gordon Last night’s Brooklyn Community Board 2 hearing on bike-share was hardly the “battle” anticipated by the Brooklyn Eagle. About 20 people testified after DOT presented the draft station maps for the district [PDF, pages 10-15], and almost all of them supported the bike-share program in general, with several residents expressing delight at the prospect of a new travel option for Brooklyn Heights, Downtown Brooklyn, and…

  • Traffic Pricing Is Evolving. Can Its Opponents?

    Charles Komanoff
    16 May 2012 | 10:12 am
    “The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones,” wrote John Maynard Keynes in his ground-breaking 1935 treatise, “The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.” Richard Brodsky. Photo: Assembly Democrats/Flickr Keynes was bemoaning budget-balancing nostrums that deepened the Great Depression. But the famed economist’s lament applies equally to Richard Brodsky’s exhumation last week of his outdated criticisms of congestion pricing. Brodsky is the former state legislator who almost single-handedly derailed Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion…

  • How Baton Rouge Brought Its Transit System Back From the Brink

    Angie Schmitt
    16 May 2012 | 9:50 am
    It’s funny how often public transit referendums bring out the the best in local communities. The case of Baton Rouge, Louisiana is a perfect example: Voters recently decided to essentially double investment in public transit — rescuing their transit agency from a long slide into irrelevance. Stephen Lee Davis at Transportation for America took an in depth look yesterday at how transit advocates in this Deep South city built a broad, diverse coalition to make the case for transit: Hundreds of Baton Rouge residents turned out for strategy meetings on how to save the local public…

  • Today’s Headlines

    Noah Kazis
    16 May 2012 | 7:59 am
    De Blasio Comes Out Against Parking Meter Privatization and Rate Increases (WSJ) Big Upgrades on Table For Hudson River Greenway in Upper Manhattan (DNAinfo) Sadik-Khan Visits Site of Fatal Staten Island Bike Crash With Wagner College President (DNAinfo) Community Board Approves Midtown’s 6 1/2th Avenue, New Raised Crosswalks (Observer) Good News: Over Half of Manhattan’s Bike-Share Stations Will Be in the Street (Gothamist) Van Bramer Cheers Inclusion of LIC in Bike-Share, Wants More Stations in Queens (Q Courier) Felix Salmon Follows Up on Bike-Share Costs and Convenience…
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  • New York Times Confirmed: Food Is The New Rock

    Rachel Goldner
    16 May 2012 | 12:23 pm
    Our fearless leader was quoted in today’s New York Times dining section, not because of Midtown Lunch, but for his Tumblr side project (and new podcast) Food is the New Rock. The news hook for the article, which talks about food becoming a center piece at music festivals, is this weekend’s Great GoogaMooga Festival. There’s [...]

  • I Want Domo Taco Truck To Be Better Than It Is

    Rachel Goldner
    16 May 2012 | 10:45 am
    When I saw Lunch’er Mike’s report last month that the Domo Taco truck improved, I was stoked. Back in February, Brian wasn’t such a fan, which was disappointing for a Japanese food fan like myself.  But sometimes it takes a minute for a new establishment to get into a groove. When the truck hit up [...]

  • Get a 3-course Lunch TOMORROW for Just $1.25

    Sarah Zilinski
    16 May 2012 | 9:48 am
    $1.25????? Yes, $1.25!!!!! According to MadParkNews and the NYTimes, Millesime (on 29th St at Madison in the Carlton Hotel) is celebrating the reopening of an original 1904 entrance to the restaurant with prices from that era. Technically, this is a Flatiron Lunch (which we usually confine to Fridays) but for $1.25 how could we not!? [...]

  • Dean & Deluca Quiche Is Good Breakfast For Lunch

    Rachel Goldner
    16 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    File this one under breakfast for lunch. A while back, I wrote a post about breakfast sandwiches that are also great (and available!) for lunch, and the responses in the comments showcased that I’m definitely not the only one jonesing for eggs at noon. I realize I might get some flack for writing about the [...]

  • ML Forums: Soft Shelled Crab; Tacos

    The ML Team
    15 May 2012 | 2:00 pm
    Soft shelled crabs were spotted at Cafe Duke’s last week [Midtown Eating] Little Morocco is more expensive at night [Midtown Eating] Look for tacos in Midtown East [Midtown Eating]
 
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    Lost City

  • Version of McHale's to Return?

    Brooks of Sheffield
    16 May 2012 | 10:58 am
    McHale's, the timeless bar at the corner of 46th and Eighth, closed more than six years ago. And it still hurts. You can go visit the neon sign at Emmett O'Lunney's pub on W. 50th Street. But otherwise, not a trace of it remains outside the memories of a few hundred Broadway stagehands. Me, I now go to Jimmy's Corner for my beer and the Edison Cafe for cheap Times Square eats.Now, JVNY reports the words of tipster who says this: "This past Friday I was walking with friends in Midtown and we stopped by the gin mill on West 50th St that has the old McHale's 'BAR' sign. The lady standing in…

  • Star Shoe Shop, Village Survivor

    Brooks of Sheffield
    15 May 2012 | 3:08 am
    I have walked by the Star Shoe Shop on Bleecker Street, near Crosby Street right by the Two Boots pizza, for decades and not quite grasped how old it is until I went in recent and got my shoes shined. Ready? It's been there more than 70 years. Unbelievable.There's not much inside to betray that level of age, though if you peak back where the small bathroom is, you'll see some ceramic floor tiles that look fairly ancient. Otherwise, the feel is very 1970s. Fake wood paneling, standard issue wall clock, a small television set embedded into the wall behind the counter. And a couple photographs…

  • Lost City Asks "Who Goes to L&B Spumoni Gardens?"

    Brooks of Sheffield
    14 May 2012 | 11:45 am
    Never know what "Who Goes There?" subjects are going to get people excited. My account of L&B Spumoni Gardens in Bensonhurst/Gravesend pulled down more comments than any other WGT since Sarge's Deli. Here it is:Who Goes There? L&B Spumoni GardensI have never driven to any of the destinations profiled in this column. "Who Goes There?" is strictly a piece of shoe-leather reporting. But I happened to briefly be in possession of a car this week, so I motored to far-off L & B Spumoni Gardens in Gravesend. The circumstances couldn't have been more appropriate. L&B is a drive-to-it…

  • Lost City Asks "Who Goes to Colandrea New Corner Restaurant?"

    Brooks of Sheffield
    13 May 2012 | 11:42 am
    It's my hunch that the footbridge above the Fort Hamilton Parkway was built expressly for the convenience of the Colandrea family and their patrons. Here my "Who Goes There?" column from Eater:Who Goes There? Colandrea New Corner RestaurantIts diner-like name notwithstanding, there has never been on "old corner" for the Colandrea family. Their Dyker Heights restaurant has always been where Eighth Avenue meets 72nd Street, though it has come to dominate that largely residential intersection more and more over the years. It began as a one-room pizzeria, founded in 1936 by Vincenzo Colandrea.

  • Lost City: Asheville Edition: Little Pigs Bar-B-Q

    Brooks of Sheffield
    10 May 2012 | 1:00 pm
    When I'm down south, I look for barbeque. Recently, I was in Asheville, North Carolina. I was told that Asheville was not a big barbeque town. Nonetheless, I looked for barbeque. I had heard of an old roadside place called Little Pigs—a name that is hard to resist. So I asked after it. I was warned off it, told it wasn't very good.But I've got a hard head, so I went anyway. Little Pigs was founded in Asheville by Joseph Carr Swicegood Sr. in April 1963. In January 1986, he hired Bob Conner, a former district manager for Burger King, as the general manager. Conner still runs it.
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    nymag.com: Nightlife

  • The Micro Microbrews

    11 May 2012 | 11:10 pm
    The New York area's most-outstanding tiny-batch beers.

  • Smackdown: Scenester Clubs

    11 May 2012 | 11:10 pm
    Le Baron vs. Westway.

  • Best Jazz Show

    11 May 2012 | 11:09 pm
    Radio host Josh Jackson picks two of the ­moment’s most adventurous and relevant musicians and stages a double-bill concert for a very un-jazz-like $12.

  • Best Whiskey Bar

    11 May 2012 | 11:09 pm
    There are bars with huge whiskey menus, and bars with friendly, knowledgeable staffers, but none combines selection and sophistication like Noorman’s Kil.

  • Best Gay Highbrow Night Out

    11 May 2012 | 11:09 pm
    This monthly IFC series, in which “one of New York’s most unique and homosexual artists” picks a movie for screening and discussion, fits the Monday bill.
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    Brownstoner

  • New Mural Going Up at Sands Street Gate

    Emily
    16 May 2012 | 1:40 pm
    There’s an large mural going up now on the Sands Street Gate, courtesy of the Groundswell Community Mural Project. (Here’s our interview with the founder of Groundswell, Amy Sanaman.) The organization brings together kids, artists, and volunteers to paint artwork around NYC. This particular mural is the work of 4th and 5th Graders from PS 30... More

  • Film Retrospective Showcases Old Vox Pop Owner

    Emily
    16 May 2012 | 1:15 pm
    Brooklyn filmmakers Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley will screen their film Horns and Halos tomorrow at the Brooklyn Heights Cinema. The documentary film follows the controversial Lower East Side publishing company Soft Skull, the owner of which later ran the Cortelyou Road Vox Pop (a saga in itself). This is part of the RUMUR Retrospective, a Brooklyn-b... More

  • Jazz Club Coming to 960 Atlantic Avenue

    Emily
    16 May 2012 | 1:00 pm
    Last week Community Board Eight approved a full liquor licence for a nightclub coming to 960 Atlantic Avenue, between Washington and Grand avenues. It will be two floors with a capacity of 175 people. The second floor will only be used for private events. On the first floor, the owner plans to host blue note jazz acts. “This will bring life to an otherwis... More

  • House of the Day: 488 13th Street

    Brownstoner
    16 May 2012 | 12:25 pm
    This two-family house at 488 13th Street just hit the market with an asking price of $2,695,000. The interiors are in great shape with lots of original detail and custom built-ins that will appeal to a traditionalist; there’s also a nice rear deck and modern bathroom. And the location on a park block ain’t too shabby either. The only question is w... More

  • Co-op of the Day: 140 8th Avenue, #6E

    Brownstoner
    16 May 2012 | 11:57 am
    This new co-op listing at 140 8th Avenue in Park Slope has great prewar bones and lots of natural light. Combined with its central Park Slope location and family size (three bedrooms), it’s bound to attract a lot of interest from buyers. We’re a little less jazzed by the recent renovation that created kind of an awkward foyer/dining/kitchen con... More
 
 
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    Serious Eats: New York

  • Beyond Soup Dumplings: Shanghai Cafe Deluxe's Tasty Dumplings in Soup

    Andrew Coe
    16 May 2012 | 1:15 pm
    [Photograph: Andrew Coe] We're soup dumpling-mad. When we go to a Shanghai-style Chinese restaurant, all too often we order soup dumplings, perhaps before we even sit down. But sometimes it pays to slow down and pay attention to the rest of the dumpling menu. On a recent visit to the excellent Shanghai Café Deluxe, our eyes lit on something called rice ball with pork in soup ($3.95). What a novel idea—dumplings in soup, rather than dumplings with soup inside them. What arrived at the table was a large bowl of clear broth in which floated four shimmering, teardrop-shaped dumplings, each…

  • AHT Giveaway: Tickets to Thrillist's East Village Beer & Burger Crawl, May 19

    The Serious Eats Team
    16 May 2012 | 12:30 pm
    From A Hamburger Today Sliders from Mark Burger. [Photograph: Nick Solares] Burger Conquest and Thrillist have joined forces to bring you this Saturday's East Village Beer & Burger Crawl, an afternoon of gourmet "sliders," craft beers, and 2-for-1 beers at the following restaurants: Bareburger, Little Town, 13th Step, Destination Bar & Grille, St. Marks Burger, Poco, sideBAR, Stand4, That Burger at Idle Hands, and Village Pourhouse. Vouchers are available for $20 (10 burgers), $30 (five burgers and five beers), or $40 (10 burgers and 10 beers) and are valid between 1 and 7 p.m. on Saturday,…

  • A Sandwich A Day: Pancake with Pork at Henan Flavor

    Carey Jones
    16 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    In this great city of ours, one could eat a different sandwich every day of the year—so that's what we'll do. Here's A Sandwich a Day, our daily look at sandwiches around New York. Got a sandwich we should check out? Let us know. —The Mgmt. [Photograph: Robyn Lee] "I cannot believe this costs two dollars" was my first thought as we unwrapped the pancake with pork ($2) from Henan Flavor (full review here). The maybe 5-inch wheat pancake is griddled for crisp edges and a slightly spongy crumb. It's then cut open and filled with a heavily seasoned pork filling. There's definitely…

  • Daily Slice: Tuttobene's in Greenpoint

    Michael Berman
    16 May 2012 | 11:30 am
    From Slice Daily Slice gives a quick snapshot each weekday of a different slice or pie that the folks at the Serious Eats empire have enjoyed lately. [Photographs: Michael Berman] It's been years since I've stopped anywhere along McGuiness Boulevard. When I lived in Willamsburg in late '90s, the Key Food near Greenpoint Avenue was my "big shop" grocery destination. And I did spend a handful of evenings playing pool at La Cue, near Calyer Street. There were house phones along the walls provided to expedite beverage orders. But lunch on McGuiness? Never. It's a road for trucks and cars…

  • Bronx Eats: West African Chu Yap and Bouey at Fouta, Soundview

    Chris Crowley
    16 May 2012 | 10:30 am
    [Photographs: Chris Crowley] Immigrants from Ghana dominate the Bronx's West African diaspora, which is reflected in the overwhelming bent towards the country's cuisine among African restaurants in the borough. But as often as not, transplants from neighboring nations can be found working at these largely Ashanti-owned dinners, welcomed into the fold with a sense of transnational community. A few stars representing the region's other traditions have joined ranks of the Bronx's fufu slingers. Take Fouta, which offers a more comprehensive taste of West Africa under the 6 train. Inside, the…
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    Overheard in New York

  • Wednesday One-Liners Are Drawn Together

    16 May 2012 | 2:00 pm
    Girl walking out of tattoo parlor: So... Now I have a shamrock on my vagina.--St. Mark's PlaceOverheard by: Alex S.Man to friend by Rockefeller Christmas tree: I wanted to cover up the Marilyn Monroe tattoo with a tree, but now I'm against trees.--Rockefeller CenterBlonde on phone: Okay so this guy showed me this dog standing up on his chest... It was a tattoo... But it was only half its body and he asked if I wanted to see its tail wag and I was like "no." (pause) Judy, if the man has a tail I don't wanna see it, especially since a tail is above the butt, and people…

  • Wednesday One-Liners Are Too Cool for School

    16 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    English teacher, seeing colleague with baseball bat over shoulder: It's time for corporal punishment!--English Class, Bronx HS of ScienceOverheard by: LillianHistory teacher: Sometimes this class just makes me want a cigarette and a stiff drink. Too bad I don't smoke anymore. Well, cigarettes, at least.--Hunter College High SchoolHistory teacher: Zinn's lens is very very dark... Much like Nicole Richie's sunglasses.--Millennium High SchoolEnglish teacher: There's a very thin line between orgasms and spiritual revelation.--Hunter College High SchoolTeacher: Any more…

  • Wednesday One-Liners Are Kind Of a Big Deal.

    16 May 2012 | 10:00 am
    Hot 20-something girl on cell: Does it mean that I'm less of a person because I have a smaller crotch?--StarbucksWoman at coat check in hair salon: Do you have another hanger? I don't like this one, it's too big. --49th St & Madison AveDrunk guy: Next stop, Mineola. All large and regularly sized olas, please get off at mineola.--LIRROverheard by: VVCrazy Jamaican guy, shouting: Everywhere I go, I see big men. Big men, wearing big suits. Big men, big suits. What do they know? They don't know god!--District Court, HempsteadOverheard by: Big Larry Alsome | Thumbs up | Thumbs…

  • Wednesday One-Liners Are Kind Of a Big Deal.

    16 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    Hot 20-something girl on cell: Does it mean that I'm less of a person because I have a smaller crotch?--StarbucksWoman at coat check in hair salon: Do you have another hanger? I don't like this one, it's too big. --49th St & Madison AveDrunk guy: Next stop, Mineola. All large and regularly sized olas, please get off at mineola.--LIRROverheard by: VVCrazy Jamaican guy, shouting: Everywhere I go, I see big men. Big men, wearing big suits. Big men, big suits. What do they know? They don't know god!--District Court, HempsteadOverheard by: Big Larry Alsome | Thumbs up | Thumbs…

  • Chili's Wednesday One-Linerback Ribs

    9 May 2012 | 4:00 pm
    Loud black lady on cell: How bout that time I drive by your house, call you up and ask where you at? You say you in a cab, I see you sitting there with your baby's mama, what up with that!--Penn StationOverheard by: Julie PaulieComedy show flyer guy: No I am not Puerto Rican! I am not wearing a flag or a baby!--Times SquareOverheard by: Amused Passer-byDrunk white chick: But I don't want my eggs to be babies. I want ten I be experimented on!--Midtown BarBlack woman to another: Cause you know: there's always that one black baby in like every ten black babies that just looks like an…
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    A VC

  • Bootstrapping

    Fred
    16 May 2012 | 4:43 am
    With all the talk of massive amounts of cash sloshing around the web/mobile startup ecosystem (including things I've said recently), you would think that nobody bootstraps anymore. But that is not true at all. Last week my partner Albert blogged about our most recent investment in Behance. Behance was bootstrapped for its first five years. As Scott Belsky, Behance's founder and CEO, wrote on the Behance blog: For the past five years, Behance has been a bootstrapped enterprise. We’ve sold Action Pads, books, job postings, conference tickets, and even banner ads (horror!) to generate the…

  • Mobile Native Services

    Fred
    15 May 2012 | 7:55 am
    One of the most exciting areas of Internet applications these days are applications that are "mobile native". That doesn't just mean mobile first. It means mobile native - the app could not exist if the mobile smartphone didn't exist. A great example of this is the "book a cab ride on your phone" category. The leader in this category is Uber which does a great job and really nailed the experience. I've also used SideCar in San Francisco and Hailo in London. All three are great experiences. These services work so well because the cab driver and the passenger both have mobile phones that are…

  • MBA Mondays Series: People

    Fred
    14 May 2012 | 5:31 am
    Based on the feedback I got on this topic last week, I've revised the title of the series and the topics we are going to cover. The series will be called People. Human Capital is a turnoff. Businesses are all about people. And people aren't capital. I've added posts on retention and asking someone to leave the company. So here is the schedule of posts: - The importance of culture and fit when hiring - Where to find strong talent - Optimal headcount at various stages - Best hiring practices - Retention - Asking somone to leave your company - How to leverage your partners (including your…

  • Easy Come Easy Go

    Fred
    13 May 2012 | 9:21 am
    I just read that a lot of the social news reader traffic publishers like Washington Post and The Guardian were getting from Facebook has dropped off dramatically. Next we will read that the traffic social video apps get from Facebook has dropped dramatically. All of this reminds me of the big drop in traffic SEO driven sites deal with every time Google does an algorithm change. SEO and Facebook timeline integration is "best practice" on the Internet. You should do both. They can be great free acquisition channels. But they are not great retention channels. Because easy come easy go. Be your…

  • Android in Europe and Asia

    Fred
    12 May 2012 | 9:03 am
    I was going through the board deck of our portfolio company Wattpad this morning. Wattpad is the leading writing/reading community on the web and mobile. Quantcast says over 7.5mm people visit their website each month. And Wattpad is one of the top free "Books" apps in both the iOS an Android apps stores. Wattpad has a very large mobile user base around the world as a result of the sucess of its mobile apps. And so this slide on geographic distribution of its user base caught my attention: The iOS user base for Wattpad is about 65% in North America. But Wattpad's Android user base is less…
 
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    SuperVegan: Vegan Blog and New York City Restaurant Guide

  • Food Book Fair This Weekend

    2 May 2012 | 7:48 pm
    [Bryant Terry]The first New York Food Book Fair is this weekend in, where else, Williamsburg. Come get your fill of panel discussions, lectures, and book and zine browsing celebrating a diversity of food writing and activism. I suspect there will be a fair amount of "hip" discussions of raising backyard beasts and broiling their innards. The good news is it won't all be about that and you can purchase tickets for individual panel events for $15. I'm looking forward to the Food + Cooking + Change panel discussion because Bryant Terry will be included. In addition to being wickedly…

  • "Light Up the Night with Paul Watson": A Very Sea Shepherd-y Start to Summer in NYC

    1 May 2012 | 7:00 am
    It's warming up in New York City again, which means that the cherry blossoms are blooming, the cafes are opening up their outdoor seating, and vegan pirates are coming out of the woodwork. If you're going to a vegan venue in the city this week, chances are you'll see an Antarctic captain or a Cove Guardian or a vegan Australian sailor, and on May 4th, you'll get to see the entire menagerie at the same time, at Sea Shepherd's 35th anniversary party in Manhattan. Just like when the Sea Shepherd vessel the Steve Irwin came to Chelsea Piers two years ago, Whale Warriors are now flooding the…

  • Parmela, A Delicious Food Accessory

    30 Apr 2012 | 9:27 pm
    Like a cute piece of jewelry or if you're a hipster, a fedora, but for your food and tasty! I'm talking about a new and exciting product called Parmela. It is a glass bottle (yes, that's right, I said glass!) full of Vegan parmesan cheeese! It is good. So good that I've dumped it by the truckload on two meals in one day. I've tried it on pasta (YUM), I've tried it on garlic bread (YUM) and I've tried it on soup (YUM) and it was YUM to the third power. It's also the mouth-child of a couple of lovely locals that I can't say enough nice things about, so I won't say any. Made from almonds,…

  • Vegan Drinks XLVIII, The Recap: Big Ups to Pine Box Rock Shop for Hosting and Thank You for Supporting "Our Planet. Theirs Too."

    29 Apr 2012 | 10:21 pm
    [1-2-3 Go!]Thank YOU for supporting "Our Planet. Theirs Too." with us at Vegan Drinks NYC on April 26th. We were expertly hosted by the fabulous Heather and Jeff at Pine Box Rock Shop in Brooklyn. Thank you, Pine Box! And, special thanks to those organizations and individuals who made Shout Outs: "Our Planet. Theirs Too."Sea ShepherdGooseWatch NYCVegan OutreachNYC Walk for AnimalsVeggie Prom - May 18th at Fontana's - benefits Mercy For Animals!OWS Animal Issues Working Group - May 13th conference - location TBADarwin Animal DoctorsChicago Vegan FoodsDun-Well DoughnutsAndreas Turanski - join…

  • Vegan Drinks XLVIII: NEW VENUE ALERT! We'll be in the Borough of Kings at Pine Box Rock Shop to Benefit "Our Planet. Theirs Too." on April 26!

    23 Apr 2012 | 11:40 pm
    Join us THIS Thursday, April 26, from 7:00pm to 10:00pm for Vegan Drinks NYC! We'll be at our favorite bar ever, Pine Box Rock Shop, located at 12 Grattan Street in Bushwick, Brooklyn. It's just around the corner from the L train at Morgan Avenue. There are also bus stops nearby and plenty of space to park your bike. (And, yes, if you haven't heard, our home of nearly four years, Angels & Kings Bar, recently closed its doors. We'll miss you, old buddy!) This month any money you throw in the donation jar will benefit the not-for-profit "Our Planet. Theirs Too.", sponsors of National Animal…
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    new-york-city « WordPress.com Tag Feed

  • Soul Selling 2.0

    peterrosch
    16 May 2012 | 6:40 am
    I’ve often wondered who exactly it is the devil chooses to visit with his prepackaged seven year soul swap deals. I know I’ve never been offered one explicitly. I’ve not had any mysterious strangers approach me, the kind with an unholy twinkle in their eye, and make any grand declarations as to what they could do for me if only I’d sign here, here, and here. My logic behind not having had this encounter usually revolves around the notion that before he would ever take the time to introduce himself, he’d have studied up on you to make close to ninety-nine percent…

  • Video: Terry O'Quinn in new TV Series "666 Park Avenue"

    Chris Davis
    16 May 2012 | 6:31 am
    Posted to Too Fab, a preview of the new TV series 666 Park Avenue with Terry O’Quinn (Joe White in Hawaii Five-0): Take the actor (Terry O’Quinn) who played the most fantastically complex character on “Lost,” pair him with the actress (Vanessa Williams) who played deliciously evil Wilhelmina Slater on “Ugly Betty,” make them the owners of a seemingly haunted apartment building in New York City, and what do you get? Only the sure-to-be-a-hit new supernatural drama “666 Park Avenue.”  

  • Fear, Racism And The Church Of The Holy Crock Pot

    cristycarringtonlewis
    16 May 2012 | 6:03 am
    The Holy Crock Pot (Image via grandmamadoesit.blogspot.com) I am a tithing member of the Church of t

  • 10 places I’d like to go in New York City part. 2

    paulinemarina
    16 May 2012 | 5:26 am
    Hi everyone. Today I want to share with you where I like to go in New York City. I hope you like it. News coming soon:) For dinner or lunch or brunch chez Pastis is a French bistro located inManhattan’s meatpacking district. ( I was inspired by Sex and the City). Magnolia Bakery. Considered one of the hot eatery spots in NYC.I love cupcakes! (Inspiration by Sex and the City) Macy’s Department Store inHerald Square is a favourite shopping destination forNew York City visitors, where you can find clothes, accessories, shoes, make up and more, and more. (Are you a shopaholic? This is…

  • Buyers shouldn't accept a big fat pig in a poke

    Malcolm Carter
    16 May 2012 | 5:05 am
    (Flickr photo by jere-me) I’m guessing that none of my readers has purchased a pig — unl
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    Hub Culture News Articles

  • Innotribe Startup Challenge Europe

    14 May 2012 | 3:05 am
    Over $500,000 in prizes are part of the Innotribe Startup Challenge, coming soon to Belfast. Hub Culture is part of the action, with Executive Editor Edie Lush among the judges.

  • Stop Joseph Kony - A Social Eruption

    7 Mar 2012 | 4:21 pm
    The sudden eruption of the Kony 2012 campaign, designed to #stopkony (the world's worst war criminal), demonstrates the sudden impact of resonance in a web connected world.  Despite qualms about the organization behind it, Invisible Children, there's no question Joseph Kony must be stopped, and the project's founders applauded for their efforts.

  • The Pitchfork and the Dauphin

    1 Mar 2012 | 5:51 am
    It is neither a wise nor popular course of action to defend News Corp. and its senior leadership in the wake of the scandals rocking its UK newspaper division, but there does come a moment where a bit of perspective could do everyone some good, so here goes: James Murdoch is a good guy. Yes, we said it, and here's why.

  • Hub Culture 2012 Zeitgeist Ranking

    21 Feb 2012 | 2:43 am
    The 6th Annual Hub Culture Zeitgeist skids into place with a focus on the heavyweights and gradual power shifts. This is the year of determined resolve - and everyone seems, dare we say, pretty optimistic?   Signs are that the US and European economies are finally evened out from a death spiral, income inequality is being addressed in pop culture platitudes, emerging markets are ticking over, its an Olympic year, etc. etc.. (Just how do we create this ranking?).  And its São Paulo for the win - again!  While the main cities remain on the list in different positions, there is an evident…

  • Sound of Solace - buy your ticket with Ven

    14 Oct 2011 | 3:39 am
    Solace Women's Aid is a London-based organization dedicated to supporting victims of domestic and sexual violence. They provide safe refuges, counseling, support services, and many other services to help women and children regain their independence. Unfortunately, they have also been amongst the many victims of drastic budget cuts across the public sector. Therefore, we have organised a special night of live music to raise funds and awareness in support of their cause!
 
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    Yellow Cab NYC

  • Fake Yellow Cabs in New York City from: NYCTaxiPhoto.com

    Brooklyn Mark
    13 May 2012 | 9:12 pm
    Most cabbies complain about nyc car service cars picking up people who hail them from the street. That is an illegal thing to do, but these drivers are at least licensed professionals who have the job of specifically driving passengers around in all parts of New York City, some of the neighborhoods aren’t so safe either, so it is an unwritten rule to look the other way with this behavior. Everybody has to make a living, and these drivers are at least licensed by New York City to drive New Yorkers around. What bothers me is a particular rare breed of taxicab that is not even licensed by…

  • Comptroller Signals Stop On Taxi Deal

    Brooklyn Mark
    3 May 2012 | 10:37 am
    The city comptroller stepped into the debate over the accessibility of city taxis, vowing on Wednesday to reject the contract for a fleet of new yellow cabs unless Mayor Michael Bloomberg amends the deal to require all—not just some—be wheelchair accessible. Comptroller John Liu said he would block the contract “as is” because it violates the Americans with Disabilities Act. He promised to use all legal tools at his disposal to fight the contract if the mayor tries to bypass his office. Under the city charter, the comptroller can reject city contracts with vendors, but only…

  • This is the color of the new outer-borough taxi

    RadioFreeTaxi
    30 Apr 2012 | 6:26 pm
    It’s lime-green, it shuns Manhattan, it’s … a taxi? Officials unveiled the city’s new outer-borough cab Sunday, which Mayor Bloomberg dubbed “The Apple Green Boro Taxi.” “For decades, the goal of bringing better taxi service to residents and visitors outside of Manhattan eluded the city,” Bloomberg said Sunday. “At long last New Yorkers in all five boroughs will have safe, comfortable, less costly and legal street-hail service.” Taxi and Limousine Commisioner David Yassky called the green cab “pleasing to the eye, easy to see from…

  • Deaf boy struck by cab in front of terrified parents in Brooklyn

    Brooklyn Mark
    15 Apr 2012 | 12:46 pm
    The driver, who stayed at the scene, told cops he couldn’t stop in time. He wasn’t charged A deaf 5-year-old boy was fighting for his life after he was mowed down by a cab in Brooklyn — as his horrified parents, who also can’t hear, looked on. Timothy Keith’s mother and father were inconsolable after their first family trip to the city turned to heartbreak Saturday. With tears streaming down her face, Timothy’s mother described what happened in a wrenching written interview. “I was with my son. The(n) he walk to road. I say NO to him,” wrote Eva Keith, 29, of Washington, D.C.

  • New NYC Taxi: Nissan Cab Unveiled

    Brooklyn Mark
    3 Apr 2012 | 9:57 am
    In a cab and your cellphone just died? No problem. Just plug it in. New cabs hitting the streets of New York City next year will have charging ports for riders’ electronics. They’ll also have more leg room, a large skylight roof to gaze at the city skyscrapers and even odor-reducing and anti-microbial fabric to help deal with, well, you know, anything you might smell in the backseat of a cab. A prototype of the Nissan NV200 will be unveiled Tuesday. The model was selected from among three finalists in a city competition. With a boxy shape and painted a brighter yellow than the…
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    Inside the Apple

  • Will the World Trade Center be America's Tallest?

    Michelle and James Nevius
    11 May 2012 | 10:31 am
    As you may have read, there is controversy brewing as to whether the new World Trade Center building (formerly known as the Freedom Tower), will be America's tallest building upon its completion.At issue is the building's spire, which was designed to reach a final height of 1,776 feet, thus marking the year of the Declaration of Independence. This piece of symbolism has stayed with the building from Daniel Liebskind's original master plan through architect David Childs's architectural redrafts. However, back in January, the Durst Organization (co-developers of the building) made the decision…

  • Wall Street, 1820, at the Duncan Phyfe Show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

    Michelle and James Nevius
    5 May 2012 | 6:15 pm
    We're a little late to the game on this post -- in fact, you only have one more day to see the Duncan Phyfe exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The show closes May 6, 2012 (i.e., tomorrow), but if you are looking for something to do tomorrow, it is well worth a visit. Not only does it showcase the work of a great New York cabinetmaker, it is also your opportunity to examine a little-seen painting of the city, Wall Street 1820 by Johann Heinrich Jenny.The painting (on loan to the museum from a private collection) is an amazing view of the city nearly 200 years ago. The above…

  • Hart Crane (1899-1932)

    Michelle and James Nevius
    27 Apr 2012 | 3:28 pm
    We were touring through Greenwich Village, showcasing places of literary significance, when we remembered that today marks the 80th anniversary of the death of poet Hart Crane.Best known for his long-form poem The Bridge--a celebration of America using as its central symbol the Brooklyn Bridge--Crane was one of the greatest modernist poets of his generation.  Plagued by alcohol problems and the perils of being a gay man in a closeted society, Crane cut short his own life on April 27, 1932, when he jumped from a steamship in the Gulf of Mexico.Crane lived a number of places in New…

  • Reminder: "The House of Mirth" at Metropolitan Playhouse on Sunday at 3pm

    Michelle and James Nevius
    27 Apr 2012 | 3:12 pm
    We hope everyone has a great weekend, and we just wanted to remind you that tickets are still available for Sunday's 3pm performance of The House of Mirth at the Metropolitan Playhouse. After the show, we'll be talking about Edith Wharton's New York and how the mores and customs of the times are reflected in the play and her other writings. It should be a lot of fun and we hope to see you there!This version of the novel was written by Wharton herself and is seldom revived, so if you are a Wharton fan you won't want to pass up this opportunity. The play opens tonight and runs through May…

  • Titanic at 100: Myth and Memory

    Michelle and James Nevius
    26 Apr 2012 | 3:16 pm
    There's been much fanfare in commemoration of the sinking of RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912, en route to New York on its maiden voyage--a new miniseries, the re-release of James Cameron's 1997 film Titanic in 3D, and a host of articles, documentaries, and museum exhibitions.We recommend the exhibition at the South Street Seaport Museum entitled Titanic at 100: Myth and Memory, which is running through May 16. The exhibition features a host of Titanic ephemera, from the china commissioned for the ship (the examples on view were extras not taken on that first voyage) to advertisements in…
 
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    Mommy Poppins - Things to Do in NYC with Kids

  • It's My Park Day and Other NYC Outdoor Volunteering Opportunities for Families

    Sonia
    16 May 2012 | 9:00 am
    Recently we received an email asking if we knew about any outdoor volunteering opportunities for New York City families this spring. The timing was perfect since this Saturday, May 19 is It's My Park Day. Organized by Partnership for Parks and held twice a year in the spring and fall, It's My Park Day brings together thousands of NYC volunteers looking to help spruce up their neighborhood green spaces. It's an awesome initiative and a great way to teach your kids about the importance of giving back to your community. After all, these are the parks they play in! There are It's…

  • J.J. Byrne Playground Reopens in Park Slope and It's Definitely a Destination Playground

    Petek
    15 May 2012 | 3:00 pm
    A few months ago when we were spotlighting Park Slope, we mentioned how much we were looking forward to the reopening of J.J. Byrne Playground. After a year of work and many millions of dollars, the revamped play spot debuted last Friday and my four-year-old daughter and I went to check it out. Due to its location in Washington Park next to the historic Old Stone House, the playground has a Colonial theme. My kid had a blast exploring this marvelous playground and so did I. As you can see from our slide show, a lot of the equipment is just as much fun to look at as play on. read more

  • News: Scribble Press on UWS Closing, New Ferry to Randall's Island, Zoo Babies, Segregation in NYC Schools

    Jeff
    15 May 2012 | 9:00 am
    While some baby swans are making their NYC debut, a handful of local family businesses are singing their swan songs, including Scribble Press' Upper West Side location, which closes this month. Of course we've got good news, too, including new ways to get to Randall's Island this summer, a cleaned-up Chinatown Fair Arcade and a star-studded Story Pirates comedy benefit—and if none of those put a smile on your face, well, just look at those cute baby swans! read more

  • Family-Friendly Restaurants in Chelsea: Where to Eat With Kids in Chelsea NYC

    Stephanie
    14 May 2012 | 5:00 pm
    Chelsea is jam-packed with restaurants. Walk down any major avenue and many of its side streets, and you're presented with an overwhelming amount of choices, from bistros to barbecue, diners to doughnuts. Since Chelsea is a very family-friendly neighborhood, most of the restaurants will accommodate children, especially during the day, but that doesn't mean they're really good for kids. So we continue our series of posts on Chelsea with a roundup of our favorite eateries in the area that are kid-friendly in terms of atmosphere and menus. read more

  • New York Botanical Garden for NYC Kids: Planting, Harvesting and Other Hands-on Nature Fun

    Sonia
    14 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    We regularly post about the cool nature activities and annual exhibits like the Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden. But as a Bronx resident who frequently visits the garden with my family, I'm here to tell you that you can never say too much about this incredibly diverse 250-acre oasis in Bronx Park. There are so many wonderful attractions: the Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden, where kids can work their green thumbs; the Everett Children's Adventure Garden, which hosts science and nature programs; the Forest, full of indigenous plants and trees, and a lovely waterfall;…
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  • Not your playbook Italian – Review of Perla

    admin
    30 Apr 2012 | 3:13 pm
    BY CRAIG CAVALLO Perla 24 Minetta Lane Greenwich Village 212-933-1824 / perlanyc.com/   You know the restaurant is Italian, but that’s only because this town can gossip.  Inside, exposed brick and wooden rafters are the only hints at rustic Italian.  There is not a stitch of red, white, or green in the dining room at Perla and [...]

  • Francine Segan brings true taste of undiscovered Italy to 92Y

    admin
    25 Apr 2012 | 11:30 am
    BY BETH KAISERMAN Food historian Francine Segan gives lectures at 92Y and throughout the city. This time, some very special friends helped her discuss her favorite region in Italy, Ascoli Piceno, or what Segan calls the “undiscovered Italy.” The town boasts mountains, a beautiful riviera, great food and wineries, Segan said. To provide the freshest [...]
 
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    NYConvergence.com

  • NY Poised to Overtake Silicon Valley as Top Tech Mecca in the Next 30 Years, Says Muchnick

    NYConvergence
    6 May 2012 | 2:32 pm
    Image via CrunchBase With tech funding at an all time high, there’s increased buzz about whether NY can displace Silicon Valley as the tech mecca. While the East Coast may never rival California in technology hardware manufacturing, Avi Muchnick, CEO of Aviary, thinks the city could become the number one technology hub within the next three decades. Muchnick, whose startup creates photo-editing tools for apps, told Forbes that since the city has comparatively fewer tech firms, companies’ chances for exposure are better. Capital is just as accessible here as on the West Coast. And since…

  • W Hotel’s Instagram Exhibit Offers Tourists a Slice of NY

    NYConvergence
    6 May 2012 | 1:04 pm
    A dress worn by female impersonator Ivy Winters was the hit of the opening night party at the W Hotel’s Living Room Lounge last week. The dress—made of photos taken by Instagram artist Theo Sickels—was velcroed together. Sickels’s favorite sunset photos were displayed front and center. “They had to go over the boobs,” Winters told The Wall Street Journal. The show features the work of Instagram photographers who captured a side of the city that tourists staying in Times Square might never get to see. W’s General Manager Jim McPartlin saidthe show was designed offer the next big…

  • CBS Sports App Lets NY Sports Fans Weigh In Real time

    NYConvergence
    6 May 2012 | 11:33 am
    CBS Sports (Photo credit: Wikipedia) CBS Sports‘ iPhone app Audio Roadshow, which launched in February, allows NYers to respond to WFAN guests and on air topics real time.  Mike Francesa’s popular sports talk show on the station,  streams live to iPhones without any ads or sponsors, but there are plans on initiating these later according to NetNewsCheck.  Ezra Kucharz, president of CBS Local, digital, said, “I’m not worried about traffic on the app.  It’s there to drive ratings and get people involved with the show.” Users get to participate in ‘thumbs…

  • Brooklyn Duo Writes Wiki Articles for Cash

    NYConvergence
    6 May 2012 | 10:02 am
    LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 18: A mobile device shows Wikipedia's front page (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) Two Brooklyn residents have turned Wikipedia page creation into a mini-business, charging $300 per article. Erez Safer, a record producer, and Aaron Wertheimer, a filmmaker already have about a dozen articles on the site, with over 100 more requests. However, many people have to be turned down due to lack of press around them. In order to make a good page, individuals need to have a legitimate number of sources. The process includes researching as well as interviews with…

  • Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Community to Rally Against Technology at Citi Field

    NYConvergence
    6 May 2012 | 8:32 am
    Citi Field (Photo credit: Wikipedia) In an effort to protest the ‘damages caused by advanced electronic devices,’ tens of thousands in NY’s ultra-orthodox Jewish community will rally on Sunday, May 20 at Citi Field, the home of the Mets, in Flushing, Queens.  Organizers of the event said the following, reported in the Jewish Press: “This will be a mass rally never before seen in the history of Orthodox Jewry in the U.S. It will be a gathering of  unity of all the Jews living in the U.S., a gathering to disseminate information and a prayer rally for the success of…
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    Kathy YL Chan

  • Peking Duck House: A Whole Duck and Soup

    16 May 2012 | 10:21 am
    Lunch: a whole peking duck for the two of us. Must go with a Mandarin speaker when visiting Peking Duck House...otherwise they give you the scrawny ducks. Make sure to ask for the duck carcass as well, good for making soup. Leave nothing to waste.Duck carved at the table, served with steamed pancakes. The pancakes run on the large side, so I cut them in half before assembling each roll. A smear of hosin, equal parts scallions and cucumbers and finally that crisp, savory duck. Oh man. If you run out of pancakes just eat the duck plain. If no one is watching I'd eat it with my fingers and then…

  • Hair Business: Cuts, Conditioners, and Masks

    15 May 2012 | 8:59 pm
    I got my bi-annual hair cut today! Once in May and once in November, and I'm good for the year. Went to the ever reliable Sei-Tomoko on W4th Street. $50 for hot green tea, shampoo/conditioner, cut, blowdry and shoulder massage. Best deal in town and they do an excellent job. I chickened out on something adventurous (again) but perhaps it's better to play it safe...right?We knocked off 3-inches. Got rid of all those split ends, cleaned things up. A little layering, a lot of texturizing. Healthier, lighter hair - that's my goal for summer. Also, finally found a leave-in conditioner that I am…

  • The New Potato

    15 May 2012 | 12:41 pm
    Monday evening at the Mondrian SoHo's penthouse. Here to celebrate the launch of The New Potato, a food+lifestyle website (see the bit they did on Lady M - so lovely!) I've been to the Mondrian's downstairs restaurant, but this was my first time in the penthouse event space. All glass and rainy weather, little bites from The Meatball Shop, cocktails by Macao Trading Co.Here's the view facing uptown. Things were looking darker downtown, but still beautiful. Pinch me, I often forget how amazing this city is. We walked back home in the drizzle and stopped at the bar of Acme for a second dinner -…

  • Sunday, Wölffer Estate, and Rosé

    13 May 2012 | 11:10 pm
    Does anything feel better than a fun and accomplished weekend? I think not. Hard work (and a bit of luck) really does pay off and I'm excited to start this week strong. Flying to Palm Beach in a bit, back to NYC for a barely a day, and then off to St. Martin. Can't sit still, and I wouldn't have it any other way.The above photo was shot this afternoon at Wölffer Estate in the Hamptons. 70F with just enough shade, a bottle of wine and good company. Wölffer makes one of our favorite table rosé, and today we tasted them alongside the Grandioso Rose 2010 and Noblesse Oblige Sparkling Rose…

  • Hawai'i: Diamond Head Market & Bakery

    10 May 2012 | 11:34 pm
    Happy Friday! Heading back to the Hamptons for work, but leaving you with something extra sweet today. One slice each of all my favorite (there are many ;) cakes and squares and tortes at Diamond Head Market & Bakery in Honolulu.Clockwise from the top: - Chocolate Haupia Cake - Okinawan Sweet Potato Squares - Chocolate Dobash - Pumpkin Crunch - DH Market Torte (this one is really crazy...in a good way) - Lemon Crunch Cake - Coconut Bread Pudding  - Blueberry Cream Cheese Scone (not pictured, but blogged about back in 2007)Diamond Head Market &…
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    Walking Off the Big Apple

  • News and Views from the Staten Island Ferry

    Teri Tynes
    16 May 2012 | 7:27 am
    Recent rides on the Staten Island Ferry, especially on good weather days, have been enjoyable as always, full of the usual sights of iconic landmarks and dazzling ships in the harbor. Even before the ferry left the dock, on every trip, passengers engaged in the same comforting routine. While visitors crowded the railings for pictures of the Statue of Liberty, commuting residents assumed their usual positions in the interior, yawning or pulling out a book. Adventurous types crowded the deck closest to the next docking, never minding their windblown hair. As everyone knows, most people riding…

  • The Living Spirit of Rossville A.M.E. Zion Church

    Teri Tynes
    15 May 2012 | 2:54 pm
    Rossville AME Zion Church is one of 40 sites selected for the Partners in Preservation initiative in New York City, a program that raises awareness of historic preservation by involving the public in distributing grants. This post is part of a series that takes a close look at a few of these sites. Information about how you can participate follows. Many of the congregants of Rossville A.M.E. Zion Church near the far shores of Staten Island on Bloomingdale Road maintain deep and long family ties to this place, stretching back in time "six, seven, even eight generations," as Reverend Janet…

  • At the Helen Hayes Theatre, A New Act for Second Stage

    Teri Tynes
    14 May 2012 | 7:31 am
    Second Stage at the Helen Hayes is one of 40 sites selected for the Partners in Preservation initiative in New York City, a program that raises awareness of historic preservation by involving the public in distributing grants. This post is part of a series that takes a close look at a few of these sites. Information about how you can participate follows. While walking along W. 44th Street in New York's Theatre District, the theatre at 240 W. 44th stands in marked contrast to its neighbors. Built by producer Winthrop Ames and designed by Harry Creighton Ingalls (1876-1936) of the firm Ingalls…

  • Lessons from East 10th Street

    Teri Tynes
    9 May 2012 | 7:17 am
    A walk on 10th Street from the Hudson River to the East River, or vice versa, affords many pleasures, including the opportunity to look at some of the city's most beautiful townhouses, local libraries, and historic churches, to sample the wares from small neighborhood stores, and to grab a decent cup of coffee. This sort of lateral city walk can also introduce visitors to some of the historical and visual distinctions between the west side and east side in this part of downtown. Residential block of E. 10th from Fifth Ave. to University Place with townhouses from the 19th century "The Ava" 9…

  • At Erasmus Hall, A Story in Stained Glass Windows

    Teri Tynes
    6 May 2012 | 1:35 pm
    Erasmus Hall Campus is one of 40 sites selected for the Partners in Preservation initiative in New York City, a program that raises awareness of historic preservation by involving the public in distributing grants. This post is part of a series that takes a close look at a few of these sites. Information about how you can participate follows. The story of how the Erasmus Hall Campus in Flatbush, Brooklyn came to possess such an extraordinary collection of stained glass windows will be told here in pictures and captions. The Erasmus Hall Campus in Brooklyn can boast a long list of achievements…
 
 
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    Susan Singer

  • New Starbucks Opens Up Inside Starbucks

    Susan Singer
    10 May 2012 | 5:29 pm
    Residents of New York City’s Union Square area were delighted when a new Starbucks store opened up inside Union Square’s already-existing Starbucks. Sean Kingsley, a graduate film student at nearby New York University, said that the opening of the new store was virtually a dream come true. “I come here almost every night to study,” he said, “but it’s so packed that it’s always really tough to find a table. So it’s great that now there will be two options instead of one.” Sean’s girlfriend, Grace Murphy, felt the same way. “For…

  • Open House on Sunday, May 13th

    Susan Singer
    10 May 2012 | 5:21 pm
    OPEN HOUSE: 405 West 23rd Street, #9-AH 1 - 2:30 pm 2 BED | 2 BATH For more information on this property, click here to view the full listing

  • 3 Bed | 3 Bath | $ 2,395,000 | Chelsea

    Susan Singer
    9 May 2012 | 6:13 pm
    Bedroom 3 Office Kitchen Master Bedroom Living Room Bathroom Floor Plan London Terrace Towers 410 West 24th Street, #11-GH ListingID: 465707 Description: This West Chelsea 3 Bedroom 3 Bath home features an Open Kitchen, Split bedroom suites and all within the perfect blend of Pre-war bones dressed in contemporary conveniences. You can settle right in to approximately 1750′ of fully usable space all brightly lit by 8 large windows facing a quiet street. The master suite includes a huge dressing room with 2 closed and 1 walk-in closet.bathroom en suite. There’s a full guest bath in…

  • West Chelsea Artists Open Studios, May 11-13

    Susan Singer
    8 May 2012 | 2:35 pm
    YOU ARE INVITED TO: West Chelsea Artists Open Studios   Preview Opening Reception Party:   Thursday, May 10th  from  6pm-9pm continues throughout weekend, Friday 11-13th  12-6pm 1440B Gallery Starret -Lehigh Building 601 W 26th  14th floor BARBARA E. COHEN OPEN STUDIO ADDRESS : 526 W26th st #603 in Chelsea(between 10th and 11th) Friday May 11th – Sunday 13th  12-6:00, www.barbaracohen.com  

  • Open Houses on Sunday, May 6th

    Susan Singer
    3 May 2012 | 1:22 pm
    OPEN HOUSE: 410 West 24th Street, #11-GH 12:30 – 2 pm 3 BED | 3 BATH For more information on this property, click here to view the full listing   OPEN HOUSE: 405 West 23rd Street, #9-A 1:30 – 3 pm 2 BED | 2 BATH For more information on this property, click here to view the full listing
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    The New Yorker

  • Books: Wenguang Huang’s “The Little Red Guard” review.

    newyorker.com
    13 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Humor is not the first thing one expects from a memoir that occupies itself with burial rites, but this lively chronicle of a Maoist-era family and its contraband coffin inspires as many laughs as it does tears. Huang begins his story in 1973, when, at the age of nine . . . (Subscription required.)

  • Goings on About Town: Dance

    newyorker.com
    13 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET In addition to repeat performances of the season’s new ballets—Benjamin Millepied’s “Two Hearts” and Peter Martins’s “Mes Oiseaux”—this week brings the return of Balanchine’s rapturous “Liebeslieder Walzer . . .

  • Tad Friend: Dustin Lance Black on making “Virginia.”

    Tad Friend
    13 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    8220;All Southern literature,” the mother of the writer Pat Conroy once told him, “can be summed up in these words: ‘On the night the hogs ate Willie, Mama died when she heard what Daddy did to Sister.’ ” This week, the writer-director Dustin Lance . . . (Subscription required.)

  • Goings on About Town: Readings and Talks

    newyorker.com
    13 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    goatTitle-->WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART The German filmmaker Werner Herzog talks about contemporary art, as well as his contribution to the Biennial, with the co-curators Elisabeth Sussman and Jay Sanders. (945 Madison Ave., at 75th St. 212-570-3600. May 17 at noon.) BOWERY POETRY CLUB Marion . . .

  • T. R. Hummer: “Shackleton’s Biscuit.”

    T. R. Hummer
    13 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Of ox and luncheon tongue, six hundred pounds; of Wiltshire bacon, seven-tenths of a ton. Seventeen hundred miles they walked, And it was pony meat that saved them. But one biscuit, this one of thousands, baked By Huntley & Palmers, a special formulation fortified with milk protein, survives— . . . (Subscription required.)
 
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    Manhattan-Living

  • This Weekend: New Taste of the Upper West Side – May 18th & 19th

    Glenwood
    15 May 2012 | 2:38 pm
    Yes, NYC food events are getting to be almost dime a dozen these days: from the Big Apple Barbecue Block Party (this June, in Madison Square Park), to the summer-long Smorgasburg in Williamsburg, to the Stone Street Oyster Festival every fall, to the first-ever, oddly-named Great GoogaMooga in Prospect Park (this weekend!), to on and on and on, it seems like not a week goes by without something tempting us to grab some friends and go and gorge in a large, communal setting. That said, it just so happens that one of the city's best food fests is happening this weekend, the New Taste of the…

  • Anish Kapoor at Gladstone Gallery NYC & Richard Avedon Photography at Gagosian Gallery NYC

    Glenwood
    14 May 2012 | 10:17 am
    At least twice a month we like to wander around the Chelsea gallery district (roughly: between 20th and 28th Streets, and 10th and 11th Avenues, hard by Hudson River Park, and right below the High Line). With more than 400 active galleries of all description, it's truly one of New York City's great treasures, a word-class concentration of contemporary art, constantly changing, always free. And although we tend to just show up without a plan–nothing more than "pick a few blocks, pop into everything"–sometimes it's nice to have a least a couple of specific…

  • 2 Glenwood Buildings in Tribeca & Upper East Side are Living Green

    Glenwood
    11 May 2012 | 10:07 am
    They call it a "DVR for electricity", and it could revolutionize the way entire city blocks–heck, entire cities–think about energy consumption. But for now, only two buildings in all of New York City are saving money and cutting usage with Demand Energy's brand-new battery storage technology, the Demand Shifter: Glenwood's Manhattan apartment buildings the Barclay Tower in Tribeca (on the right, above), and The Caldwell, on the Upper East Side (below). At Glenwood, it seems, the future is now.   Glenwood Encourages Living Green by Incorporating LEED…

  • Fratelli la Bufala NYC: Naples-Style Pizza on the Upper West Side

    Glenwood
    9 May 2012 | 10:35 am
    Pizza on the Upper West Side is clearly ready for Fratelli la Bufala, the upscale pizza-centric restaurant that recently opened near Glenwood's luxury rental apartment buildings The Grand Tier and The Regent, and which has been packed just about every night since. It's exactly the sort of place the neighborhood craves, a casual but cool-looking spot with an interesting, crowd-pleasing menu that's as comfortable for families as it is for, say, a second date, or a rowdy meal with a pack of friends. Only thing is, is Fratelli la Bufala ready for the Upper West Side? Well… after…

  • Ernesto Neto: Slow iis goood at Chelsea’s Tanya Bonakdar Gallery

    Glenwood
    7 May 2012 | 10:20 am
    There's art that you stand and admire (or not, as the case may be) from a distance… and then there's the stuff Ernesto Neto does. The Brazilian sculptural-installation-ist Ernesto Neto has become something of an art star in this town these past few years, especially after his sensual crowd-pleaser Anthropodino–the New York Times called the womb-like, aromatic work a "Great Spicy, Gauzy Mother"–filled the vast Park Avenue Armory in 2009. Now Ernesto Neto's enveloping magic is back, albeit on a much smaller scale, with a very fun, extremably…
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    Mitch Broder's Vintage New York

  • Vintage New York Presents: Meet Your Mama in Manhattan

    Mitch Broder
    9 May 2012 | 4:47 pm
    By Mitch BroderIf you need to be reminded to remember your mom on Sunday, for shame. But walk around the city and you'll be reminded.Having just established that Manhattan has its fair share of Joints, I thought this the time to establish that it has its fair share of Moms. That includes, of course, Mamas as well as at least one Mamma, though apparently no Mothers, despite what you would think.Most are in the form of restaurants, which poses a dilemma if you honor the life rule "Never eat at a place called Mom's." But this is New York. Here you break rules. Here you eat where you want.

  • Strangely New York: City's Best Pitch at World's Smallest Store

    Mitch Broder
    2 May 2012 | 5:39 pm
    By Mitch BroderParks asked me to tell you that he wept when he got respect from a bro, so I’m telling you.He got respect from a bro. And then he wept.“It’s the first time I’ve been validated and accepted by bros,” he sobbed, his face in his hand. “The guy was strong enough to be a cop, and he liked me. I never got picked for sports. I never got picked for kickball.”It was all too much. He collapsed to the floor. But he kept talking into his mike.This was just one moment of drama from a life lived on the edge, or at least on the stoop, at 131 Christopher Street. It’s the stoop…

  • Vintage New York Presents: The Great Joints of New York City

    Mitch Broder
    25 Apr 2012 | 5:52 pm
    By Mitch BroderYou can always get out of a joint — unless, of course, it's the joint.But you can't always find a Joint, unless you bone up on your Joints.New York just got its latest Joint, Sticky's Finger Joint, which is a great joint if you happen to like Joints that have fingers. But in its Jointhood, it is a rarity: New York is not crawling with Joints. It has little more than a handful, and they're not exactly hip joints.Here, nonetheless, is a gallery of Manhattan's best-known Joints. I won't be surprised if I've missed a couple. Joints are just the sort of thing you blow.Above is Big…

  • New in New York: It's Time to Take a Dip at Sticky's Finger Joint

    Mitch Broder
    19 Apr 2012 | 12:44 pm
    By Mitch BroderI believe that Paul gave me his candy fries to shut me up.If nothing else, the guy knows how to work his crowd.But he does know something else: He knows how to perk up a finger. This explains why he has opened a place called Sticky’s Finger Joint.These are my fingers. Above, the guy standing up is Paul.It’s as good an explanation as any, and I didn’t press him because he was busy and because his candy fries really did grab most of my attention. They were the Okinawa Purple Sweet Potatoes Drizzled with Honey and Glitterbanged with Pecan Coconut Glitter. Per his plan, they…

  • Old New York: Easter Parade Tips Its Hat to Vintage New York

    Mitch Broder
    11 Apr 2012 | 8:16 pm
    By Mitch BroderVintage New York was launched last year on Easter Sunday, and this year on Easter Sunday New York City celebrated.It was celebrating Easter, actually. But it was still on my anniversary. So thank you, New York. I bet I can count on you next year, too.It's a good bet, because the Easter Parade has been running for a century and a half, since it began as a casual stroll on Broadway south of Canal Street. It has evolved from a pageant of finery to a display of funny hats. But it's still the best parade in the city because you get to see it without homesteading.For most of its…
 
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    harlemworldmag.com

  • Harlem’s Franco The Great, Great Work

    Harlem World Magazine
    15 May 2012 | 10:59 am
    This is Harlem/ Franco’s Blvd, 125th St Franco  Gaskins the ”Picasso of Harlem”  has murals that will soon be moved to an outside art gallery at the East River. Harlem World Magazine thought it would be a good idea to showcase his … Continue reading →

  • HW Podcast with Larry Scott Blackman and Carolyn Butts (update)

    Harlem World Magazine
    15 May 2012 | 10:35 am
    Listen to the HW Podcast show with host Danny Tisdale as he talks to Carolyn Butts, Director of African Voices, about A Choice of Weapons: The New Renaissance Artists, a  May 16th, Tribute to Gordon Parks and Larry Scott Blackman, Deputy … Continue reading →

  • Walter’s World: Streetcar Named Desire

    Harlem World Magazine
    15 May 2012 | 9:52 am
    By Walter Rutledge There have been many revivals of Tennessee Williams’ Pultizer Prize winning stage play A Streetcar Named Desire. The new production now playing at the Broadhurst Theater is the first Broadway production to feature an interracial cast with … Continue reading →

  • Kanye West Signs Harlem’s Teyana Taylor

    Harlem World Magazine
    14 May 2012 | 7:13 pm
    Well, this was a long time coming. Kanye West has been closely affiliated with Harlem rapper/singer Teyana Taylor for some time now, but this week it was confirmed that Taylor has officially been signed to ‘Ye’s G.O.O.D. Music label. The … Continue reading →

  • Harlem Businesses Partner to Drive Tourism

    Harlem World Magazine
    14 May 2012 | 9:03 am
    It started out as a way to raise money for the holiday lights on 125th Street in the middle of a recession. Now a collection of Harlem community groups is banding together to promote businesses in the neighborhood. The Promotional … Continue reading →
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