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Inflated: A Luxury Bubble Bar Could Be Floating to a Rooftop Near You
Don't be a party popper. Igloo party tents totally make rooftop bars a little bit cooler. You can finally ditch that old bar stool and drink your appletini all from the comfort of a heated plastic...
View ArticleClinton Hill’s Broken Angel Sells for $4.1M
The Broken Angel House at 4-8 Downing Street in Clinton Hill has been sold to Brooklyn development firm Barrett Design & Development LLC for $4.1 million. The brick townhouse has been a...
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Holy Smokes! NYC’s Marijuana Supper Club Opens for High Rollers
This came from the smoking section. (Justin Walker) Smell that? That's the scent of Sinsemil.la opening up its doors as New York City's first marijuana menu-driven supper club. The restaurant released...
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Neutral Milk Hotel Reunion Tour Hits Brooklyn
The so-called J.D. Salinger of indie rock was at a loss for words. After taking the stage and making it through the start of “The King of Carrot Flowers Pt. One,” (“When you were young…”) Neutral Milk...
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Why ‘Blurred Lines’ Shouldn’t Win a Grammy
Robin Thicke. (Photo via Getty Images) I came to "Blurred Lines" late. It was July of last year, four months after the release of Robin Thicke's controversial, chart-topping hit, and I'd somehow made...
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To Do Saturday: The ‘Simple Math’ Behind Skyscrapers
The Empire State Building. (Photo via Wikimedia Commons) Skyscrapers are designed to take our breath away, but according to the exhibit “Sky High: the Logic of Luxury” at the Skyscraper Museum, there’s...
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To Do Sunday: NYChiliFest 2014
A bowl of chili. (Photo via Wikimedia Commons) If you’re a fan of cooking competition shows and a hungry carnivore, you’ll want to head to Chelsea Market today for NYChiliFest 2014, where chefs are...
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Thomas Friedman Cites Wikipedia, Again
Thomas Friedman. Photo via Getty Images) Three's a trend, they say, but when it comes to New York Times journalists referencing Wikipedia entries in their opinion pieces, two times is probably enough...
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Five Essay Prompts for GIRLS 3×4 : ‘Dead Inside’
Illustration via Alex Bedder. These questions regard last night’s episodes of HBO’s GIRLS. Please answer the prompts with specific examples from LAST NIGHT’S EPISODE, though supplementary material will...
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NYU Students Invent New York’s Own Computerized Crossing Guard
Oh, Pop Pop. Do not jaywalk on the corner of Broadway and Waverly. You might make Pop Pop angry. Pop Pop, of course, is the city’s first interactive pedestrian street signal. Debuted in December by NYU...
View ArticleIn This Week’s New Yorker, We Learn Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Wears an...
In this week’s issue of the New Yorker, there’s an intriguing profile about Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and his company’s boom. The lengthy piece, penned by Ken Auletta, is an interesting deep-dive on...
View ArticleDe Blasio and Cuomo Play Nice for the Cameras in Midst of Pre-K Showdown
One is threatening to kill his newly-elected disciple’s signature campaign promise to raise taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers to fund universal pre-K. The other is trying to out-maneuver his old...
View ArticleUber Will Send You a ‘Halftime Show’ With Band, Cheerleaders On Demand This Week
If you pine for the days when halftime meant chugging a Poland Springs bottle full of Popov atop the bleachers while making fun of your high school’s cheerleaders and clarinetists, you’re in luck. Uber...
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No Touching! The Problem With Looking Isn’t Just How Boring It Is
No exit. (HBO) Looking is the new show on HBO that was supposed to be the queer version of GIRLS, but everyone found too boring to comment on, unless they were making a grandiose statement about how we...
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NYU Freshman Who Fell to Death Had Promising Music Career
Titan Lee-Hai, via his artist page on Facebook Tragedy struck the NYU community early Monday morning when student Titan Lee-Hai was found dead of an apparent suicide in courtyard of his dorm building....
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Science Says Germs Are Hosting a Lemon Party in Your Drink
This is now disgusting. When life hands you lemons, think twice about putting them in your drink. A frightening 70 precent of lemons used to sweeten up restaurant beverages showed signs of microbial...
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The Sexiest Pie Scenes in Cinematic History
Pie is sexy in Labor Day. Jason Reitman's new romantic drama, Labor Day, which hits theaters this Friday, has so far mostly received lukewarm reviews. But one notable scene, in which Josh Brolin, who...
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Delayed Gratification: Cobble Hill Townhouse Enters Contract Near $4.47 M. Ask
A rendering of the finished Strong Place houses A year ago, when Donald Brennan first brought to market the three townhouses he planned to construct on Strong Place in Cobble Hill, he ran into...
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No, It’s Never A Good Idea to Pay a Strange Man Threatening to Turn Off Your...
Hopefully the people operating these trucks aren't scammers too.(Tim F./Flickr) And yet, some small business owners have done just that. Several businesses in Williamsburg and Greenpoint have been...
View ArticleSuper Bowl Light Display Begins Tonight at 230 Park Ave.
Monday Properties and Invesco are launching a week-long LED light display tonight at 230 Park Avenue saluting the Super Bowl XLVIII contenders the Seattle Seahawks and the Denver Broncos and spanning...
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