Facebook Is Making it Easier For People to Stalk You After You Die
On the off chance that disaster strikes on your commute home, you might want to delete your more incriminating tagged photos. Facebook has tweaked its policies to make more of your profile information...
View ArticleMTA Negotiations Push Possible LIRR Strike to July
A potential Long Island Rail Road workers strike has been postponed from its proposed March 21 date–but slow negotiations with MTA officials may cause the strike to resume in full force this July. Read...
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Testing the Waters: The East River Ferry Shuttle Bus Is One Swank Ride
There is such a thing as a free ride. North Brooklyn hipsters feared for their lives last Thursday when an East River Ferry ramp plunged into icy water, cutting off service to India Street for at least...
View ArticleThe Stars in Broadway’s Firmament: Movie Stars Lighting Up the Great White Way
You gotta get a gimmick, a trio of wise women once advised. But to succeed on Broadway these days, what you really need is a star. Mounting a Broadway show has become so expensive, and the business so...
View ArticleBill de Blasio Refuses to Take ‘Speedgate’ Questions Despite Vow
Despite repeatedly promising this morning that he’d take questions about the controversy surrounding his caravan breaking multiple traffic laws, Mayor Bill de Blasio shut down such inquiries at an...
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To Do Saturday: Remember Peter Kaplan
Peter Kaplan at the Society of Illustrators - drawings of Peter Kaplan above (clockwise from upper left) by Drew Friedman, Philip Burke, Victor Juhasz, and Robert Grossman Longtime Observer editor...
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To Do Sunday: Brahms!
Renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma is joined by pianist Emanuel Ax for Brahms Then and Now, a two-hour program dedicated to the incomparable German composer, with performances of his cello sonatas No. 1 in E...
View ArticleMayor Takes Dig at Media for Focusing on ‘Sideshows’
Mayor Bill de Blasio, enduring a recent string of mini-controversies, told reporters today that he wished the media would focus less on “sideshows” and more on his substantive policy goals. Fielding...
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Randy Minor Going Back to New York
Art director Randy Minor is headed back to New York, the now-biweekly magazine, after a very brief stint at Elle, a representative for New York confirmed this afternoon. Mr. Minor's hiatus from New...
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Five Essay Prompts For GIRLS 3×8: ‘Incidentals’
Illustration by 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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Derailed: Awesome Metro-North Conductor Leaves Apology Notes on Riders’ Seats
Metro-North now offers apologies in writing for cancellations and delays Now this is an apology that's right on time. A Metro-North conductor left passengers sorry notes after mistakenly directing them...
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Time is a Flat Circle: True Detective Too Clever By a Shade
The only time that exists is party time. (HBO) Forget an Emmy. Someone should give True Detective's Nic Pizzolatto a Pulitzer. This is what I thought/tweeted (is there a difference anymore?) on...
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Ruining Mei Fun: LES Restaurant Funneled Orders Through FIVE Phony Fronts on...
Who knows where this came from. When a GrubHub/Seamless customer noticed the address listed for Asian restaurant "Joe's Noodles" was the same as the Tribeca Abbey apartment building, Tribeca Citizen...
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Occupied at Last? After 63 Years, Someone May Finally Live in Huguette...
Occupied at last? Ever since reclusive copper heiress Huguette Clark bought the 51.7-acre New Canaan estate "Le Beau Chateau" in 1951, the property has sat empty, save for a caretaker who lived in a...
View ArticleSnowden Biographer Claims His Text Would ‘Self-Delete’ When He Wrote About NSA
The journalist Luke Harding’s book, The Snowden Files, came out earlier this month. But judging by Mr. Harding’s assertion that his words were somehow deleting themselves while he wrote about the NSA,...
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Morning Media Mix
Illustration by Lauren Payne. The anonymous Goldman Sachs Elevator Twitter feed has been exposed. And it's a 34-year-old former bond executive who lives in Texas named John Lefevre who has never...
View ArticleOn the Market: South Street Seaport Plan to Get Extra Scrutiny; Healthy...
Spanish art foundation lists historic East 38th St. stable for $10 M. [Crain's]Long Island developer and political patron Gary Melius shot outside his castle. [NYT]Kristin Wiig lists disappointingly...
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The Politics and Power of A.G. Schneiderman
Illustrations by Jason Seiler. When the Loews Regency opened for breakfast on Jan. 16 after a yearlong $100 million facelift, the political wattage electrified the room. Former Mayor David Dinkins,...
View ArticleFX Releases Fargo TV Trailer, You Betcha! (Video)
How do we feel about this, you guys? A little weird? I definitely feel a little weird about this. Like, I love Fargo, and FX has great programming, and the cast is all-star. (Billy Bob Thornton,...
View ArticleEditorial: A Win for Common Sense
As Governor Chris Christie will attest, federal judge William J. Martini has a low threshold for legal nonsense. Several years ago, when Mr. Christie was burnishing his image as a corruption-busting...
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