Uber Slashes Fares In Cities That Aren’t New York
When stumbling upon this Uber blog post, you may have clicked and scrolled through, thinking to yourself, This is it, Uber has lowered its fares, I don’t have to spend 15 minutes walking from the G to...
View ArticleBill de Blasio Transition Donors Include Many With Interests Before City
Donors hoping to gain favor with newly-elected Mayor Bill de Blasio had one last chance to fill his coffers before his administration kicked into high gear. They took advantage of the opportunity. New...
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Update: ExxonMobil Claims No Record of Charity Outreach With Mellow Pages...
Mellow Pages Library. (Tumblr) Update: In an email to The Observer, a spokesperson from ExxonMobil denied company ever being in contact with Mellow Pages Library. Full email below. The Mellow Pages...
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Condemned—To Broadway: In Machinal, Rebecca Hall Plays a Woman Sent to the...
'Machinal.' The English actress Rebecca Hall has had an eclectic career, both on stage and on screen, one that has carried her from Woody Allen (a Golden Globe nomination for Vicky Cristina Barcelona)...
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Time for a Strong Gin & Tonic: J. Press Is Shuttering Its Madison Avenue...
The Madison Avenue J. Press must shut down. It's a good thing that preppy style is timeless, because New Yorkers will have to make do with whatever madras blazers and toggle coats are currently in...
View ArticleDe Blasio Says Christie’s Bridge Scandal ‘Raises Bigger Questions’ About His...
Bill de Blasio is taking New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to task over his ongoing George Washington Bridge scandal. At a press conference today, New York’s newly-minted mayor ripped into Mr. Christie’s...
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Reach For the Sky! Times Square Woody Arrested on Sex Charges
Andy would be ashamed Someone probably should have yelled, “Andy’s coming!” The New York Post reported that a man outfitted as a character from “Toy Story” in Times Square took the name Woody a tad too...
View ArticleWith a Fork, Bill de Blasio Eats Pizza
Stick a fork in him. Mayor Bill de Blasio visited a Staten Island pizzeria today to meet with local residents. There, he ate pizza using a fork and a knife, drawing widespread mockery on Twitter. Read...
View ArticleHere’s a Picture of The BachelorWearing Google Glass
At Betabeat, we never rest in finding the most obscure tech angle in anything that interests us. So we felt especially blessed today that this season’s Bachelor, Juan Pablo Galavis, is on a tour of...
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Mellow Pages Library Admits ExxonMobil Offer a Hoax
Mellow Pages. (Facebook)It's official: The New York Observer was duped by Mellow Pages Library, which claimed earlier this week that they had gotten a large offer of money from ExxonMobil and were...
View ArticleBroadcast Networks, Aereo to Duke It Out Over TV Rights in Supreme Court This...
The battle between broadcast networks and Aereo is about to become must see TV. Several networks complained that the Barry Diller-funded streaming service is threatening their bottom lines by...
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Double Header! Buyers Enter Contract on Two Units at 56 Leonard for $28.75 M.
Fantasy views There remains a single full-floor penthouse available at Herzog and de Meuron's much-discussed Tribeca tower 56 Leonard Street—a 5,489 square-foot spread on the 58th floor, currently...
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The New York Times Reports On Hugo Lindgren’s New Job
Hugo Lindgren. Former editor of The New York Times Magazine Hugo Lindgren will spend the next three months editing The Hollywood Reporter. The news, which was first announced in a tweet by the recently...
View ArticleBecause We All Miss ‘Entourage,’ HBO Creates ‘Silicon Valley’ Sitcom
Shooting has wrapped on HBO’s new TV show Silicon Valley, and the sitcom is debuting until April. Typical unnecessary tech embargo. Still, HBO invited some TV critics to scope it out earlier this week,...
View ArticleBill de Blasio Shows His Love for Staten Island
The lone blemish in Mayor Bill de Blasio’s overwhelming victory in the general election last fall was Staten Island, the only borough that the mayor lost in what was otherwise an historic landslide....
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Amy Sacco’s Birthday Bash
Amy Sacco. (Photo by Matteo Prandoni/BFAnyc.com) "This is one of my pimps." That's we thought nightlife queen Amy Sacco had said as she stepped up to the microphone yesterday evening for a bit of...
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To Do Saturday: Lovesick Expo
The Lovesick Expo is for people who think they are original. If you’re getting married but the words “wedding expo” instantly give you cold feet, head over to Williamsburg (but of course) for hipster...
View ArticleAl Sharpton and Speaker Mark-Viverito Blast Media: ‘They Just Went Crazy on...
Newly-elected City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and the Rev. Al Sharpton went after the media this morning, accusing the city’s news outlets of being out-of-touch with voters. In her first...
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Jamestown Fills Long Island City’s Falchi Building with Diverse Tenants
The Falchi Building. When Jamestown Properties bought the Falchi Building, a 600,000 square foot former warehouse and distribution center in Long Island City, for a reported $80 million in 2012, there...
View ArticleDe Blasio Blasts Post Stark Cover After Criticism
Bill de Blasio, criticized for his “silence” on the high-profile murder of a Hasidic businessman–as well as the ensuing controversy regarding the New York Post‘s coverage of the killing–went on the...
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