Being naturally petty my initial reaction to news that "residents of a swanky downtown condo building have filed a lawsuit grand-slamming a plan to put a Denny’s restaurant in their building" was of the, "Suck it, rich people, we all have to live with the malling of Manhattan" variety, but on further reflection I decided that I don't want a Denny's in my city even if it does bring with it the benefit of upsetting a bunch of people who pay a million bucks for each bedroom. I suppose we'll never have the revolution if aesthetic considerations trump class antagonisms, but that's a concern I'm willing to put on [...]
“I wasn’t stunned when he got in trouble. I know him for years and always knew something was wrong with him.” —Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani delivers his verdict on Anthony Weiner to Cindy Adams. Elsewhere in Cindy's column, Giuliani's former police commissioner Bernie Kerik discusses his release from prison.
"Residents of Manhattan will not just sweat harder from rising temperatures in the future, says a new study; many may die."
What does this picture say to you? If you answered, "Williamsburg, 15 grand a year," you are probably already in a state of sorrow about the rental market in New York. And rightfully so. But wait, there's more! [Via]
Now kids in town will be asking you to buy them cigarettes and beer.
In January 2009, when architecture writer Andrew Blum arranged to have his home internet service repaired, the technician who arrived at his Brooklyn apartment told him that the source of the problem was relatively low-tech: a squirrel had been chewing the rubber-coated wire that ran from Blum's building. Not much could be done, the technician said, other than wait for things to get better on their own, and they did. But Blum was shocked by his realization that the emails and websites he'd been reading on the computer had first passed through a wire in his back yard; his wonky home service was a physical problem, not a strictly technological [...]
