Bloomberg Headed to Honolulu for Post-Mayoral Fund-Raiser: Reports
Just one day after he departs City Hall, Mayor Michael Bloomberg is headed to sunny Hawaii, according to reports. The Honolulu Civil Beat and Honolulu Star-Adviser reported yesterday that Mr. Bloomberg...
View ArticleBill de Blasio Says He’s Setting Up a Clear Chain of Command for City Hall
Unveiling his first deputy mayor and two other top administration posts today, Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio stressed that a potent right-hand man would be pivotal to the day-to-day functioning of City...
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The City’s Health Department Would Like You to Turn Down Your Headphones
First, Spotify doxxed your basic ass taste in music and now the city’s Department of Health is begging you to turn it down. In a public service campaign launched yesterday, the agency urges you to turn...
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Chicken Little? Not at Rotisserie Georgette—This Bird Earns Its Place at the...
A great roast chicken must have crisp skin and moist meat. Chickens are simple birds—yard birds and cheap birds. Gallus gallus domesticus is the animal God created just before He took a nap. When a...
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Michael Shvo, Developer Who Brought Us That Gas Station Sheep Meadow, Makes...
This is art: Michael Shvo and Peter Marino riding a concrete sheep together. (Patrick McMullan) Michael Shvo, the irrepressibly showy boom-time broker who vanished in the wake of the financial crash...
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Billy Joel’s Faustian Deal With Madison Square Garden
Billy Joel gets Madison Square Garden banner. (Getty Images) For a musician, nothing says you've made it like playing a sold-out show at Madison Square Garden. Just ask One Direction. Once you've made...
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Please Let This Castle Braid Twitter Account Be Real
And here we go... (Twitter) Since we last wrote about Castle Braid, the rich hipster/artist condo in Bushwick, the story has turned darker for the trust fund kids. Apparently the righteous rage of the...
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Life Sciences? We’ve Got (More of) ‘Em, Announces EDC
Science. With $1.4 billion in annual support from the National Institutes of Health and a near-unrivaled concentration of academic, medical and research foundations, New York is well positioned to...
View ArticleA Tour of Art Basel Miami Beach 2013
And we’re off! More than 250 exhibitors have spent the past few days setting up shop in the Miami Beach Convention Center, and this morning the doors swung open to let in the first tranche of VIPs....
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Out of the Furnace Packs a Predictable Punch
Christian Bale in Out of the Furnace. More bitter, bleak lives of American mill workers without a compass and no place to go if they had one are showcased in the pessimistic drama Out of the Furnace....
View ArticleBill Bratton Says He’s Okay With Working Out of Unused Trailer
The city’s future police commissioner today dismissed suggestions that a decision by the current administration to relegate Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio’s police transition team to a trailer outside One...
View ArticleDe Blasio Says No Contradiction in Picking ‘Progressive Visionary’ Bratton
Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio insisted today he’s still on track to reform the NYPD, even though he just chose a member of the old guard to lead the department in his administration. “I could not be more...
View ArticleBarack Obama Is Not Allowed to Use an iPhone So Being President Pretty Much...
Barack Obama must be looking forward to the end of his presidency, what with the job’s grueling hours, the Obamacare website backlash, and the constant stream of vitriol aimed at him by the opposition....
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What’s the Big Idea Channel? Backstage With PBS’s Hit YouTube Show
Mike Rugnetta during a recent taping. In a cluttered Koreatown office, Mike Rugnetta and Andrew Kornhaber huddled around an iMac and giggled over an obviously Photoshopped image of Michel Foucault in a...
View ArticleNADA Miami Beach 2013 Begins
Early this afternoon an artist and I sat in the lobby of the Deauville Beach Resort in Miami Beach and marveled as one dealer after another hustled past, carrying paintings in and out of the...
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Shimmering Was Not Enough; $12 M. Is Another Story: Chinese Artist’s Flatiron...
Wen-Ying Tsai Of late, pundits have alternatively lamented and celebrated diminishing funding and student enthusiasm for the arts and humanities at the nation's schools. If only the Chinese-born artist...
View ArticleBill de Blasio Gaining Reputation for Tardiness at Official Events
Bill de Blasio, who is set to take office on January 1st, is quickly gaining a reputation for tardiness. The mayor-elect, starting to return to a regular schedule of public events following a sparse...
View ArticleMayor Bloomberg Orders Flags Lowered to Half-Staff to Honor Mandela
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has ordered that flags at City Hall be lowered to half-staff this evening to honor the late Nelson Mandela, who died earlier today at the age of 95. Read More
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TF Cornerstone Tapped for Second Phase of Hunter’s Point South Development
One hundred apartments in the new development will be set aside for senior citizens. TF Cornerstone has prevailed in its bid to build the second phase of Hunter's Point South, the massive,...
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