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Rockaways Residents Want More Than a Line In the Sand Between Them And Nudists
Exposing their feelings: Rockaway residents not into nudity Reeling from nude sunbathers who assault both their eyes and their standards of decency, Rockaway residents are begging for a large fence to...
View Article‘Congressman Grimm’s Re-election Funded By Chinese Prostitution Money?’
It looks like the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee will probably win the award for the most creative press release title this week. “Foreign Chinese prostitution money is allegedly behind...
View ArticleGirls Star Lena Dunham Wants To Take on The Tea Party by Eating ‘Dope Sh*t’
Lena Dunham, the star, creator and producer of HBO’s hipster-ific series Girls, took to Twitter today to encourage her more than 200,000 followers to take on the Tea Party by “eat[ing] dope shit” at a...
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Lost in New York? Don’t ask a New Yorker
He knows where he's going. Do you? (PeterJBellis, flickr) Aside from their adherence to sidewalk etiquette and an affinity for one-handing pizza, when they put their feet to the street New Yorkers may...
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The New York Times Visits Goldman-Land, Discovers Mediocre Tippers
After Goldman Sachs opened its new headquarters at 200 West St. in October 2009, the firm went about recruiting businesses to cater to employees—and wound up with three Danny Meyer eateries, a wine...
View ArticleSecret Service Shut Down ‘Fire Eric Holder’ Protest For ‘Safety Reasons’
The Secret Service stopped a group of about 50 college students who were leading a protest demanding President Barack Obama fire Attorney General Eric Holder in front of the White House today. Secret...
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Google In-house Philospher Damon Horowitz Lands In Lincoln Square Pad
Horowtiz the Home Buyer (TEDxSoMa, flickr) Damon Horowitz may be a tech guru and serial entrepreneur, but when it came to finding a place to live, he headed straight for the famed Hotel des Artistes at...
View ArticleRoundup: These Famously Hot New York City Electoral Summers
A New York State Supreme Court judge heard a complaint from Adriano Espaillat’s attorneys, which could lead to the court to supervise vote counting. Keith Wright warned Adriano Espaillat’s campaign...
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Hard-to-Explain Start-Up ‘The Cools’ Throws Hard-to-Describe Party
School may be out for the summer, but the downtown kids were in attendance at the Old School Wednesday evening for a so-called “jamborée” in honor of Olivier van Themsche’s start-up, The Cools. The...
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Jennifer Weiner Dons Jeffrey Eugenides’s Vest in New Ad Campaign
Jennifer Weiner, the bestselling author of Good in Bed who coined the term "Franzenfreude," has long contended that male novelists suck up more than their share of this town's rarified literary air....
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Media Briefs: Downsizing at ‘The Daily’
Today's, a special edition of Media Briefs: Things are not going well at The Daily today. We'll be updating the news live, as it comes in. Here's what's happening: The Daily, Downsized (4:51 PM): Peter...
View ArticleGeorge Maziarz Talks Polish-American Politics
In the wake of his visit to Poland, Mitt Romney announced the formation of a “Polish-Americans for Romney” committee. And picked to served on the eight-person national advisory board was George...
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The #NBCFail Scale: How Bad is the Network’s Olympic Coverage, Really?
Next year, CNN NBC has been receiving a ton of flack for their coverage of the 2012 Olympics. Some of it has been justified, some blown out of proportion, but either way it's caught on as a hashtag:...
View ArticleThe Boys (and Girls) of Summer: ‘Context Message’ at Zach Feuer and ‘Side...
The critic Dave Hickey once cited his friend and fellow critic Peter Schjeldahl’s prescription for making it as an artist: “You move to a city. You hang out in bars. You form a gang, turn it into a...
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Creative Power Couple Pays $1.8 M. For Park Slope Co-op
A nice address for the artists. In a move sure to roil the blood of reluctant lawyers and in-it-for-the-money bankers, an actress turned novelist and her music curator/documentary producer/novelist...
View ArticleJury Acquits Brian Stoker in CDO Case, Tells SEC Not to Be Too Discouraged
You can read about Brian Stoker, the former Citigroup executive acquitted of charges that he mislead investors in mortgage-backed securities structured and marketed by Citi in early 2007 here or here....
View ArticleRoundup: A Troll We Can Believe In
Joe Crowley has a potential challenger for his leadership position in the House Democratic caucus. Salon declared Mindy Meyer to be, “A troll we can believe in.” Another southern Brooklyn Democrat...
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Midtown Eatery Schnipper’s Establishes Self as Anti-Chick-Fil-A With Equality...
Eater reports that Schnipper's, the Times building stalwart for meticulously prepared sandwiches and Elaine Benes-sized sandwiches, has struck back at Chick-Fil-A and its funding of antigay...
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Genetic Mutation Michael Phelps Wins Most Olympic Medals Ever; Proves Dreams...
Michael Phelps, world champion (Getty Images) Congratulations to Michael Phelps, who won his 19th Olympic medal, taking home the gold for the 4x200-meter freestyle relay this evening along with several...
View ArticleMindy Meyer Does Not Have a Super PAC
Mindy Meyer, the brash 22-year-old self-proclaimed “diva” running for State Senate in Brooklyn, told The Politicker she has nothing to do with a “Friendz of Mindy Meyer” “super PAC” that released a...
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