Editorial: Jason Collins, Pioneer
And so Brooklyn welcomes another pioneering athlete. Today, it is Jason Collins, a member of the Brooklyn Nets and now the first openly gay player to compete in one of country’s four most popular...
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Morning Media Mix
Illustration by Lauren Payne. ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox think Aereo, the start-up that streams TV signals to users’ Internet-connected devices, is stealing from them, and they have filed a brief with the...
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Necessary Evil: The Mayor of Jersey City on Tammany Hall
Mention the words “Tammany Hall” to anyone with the faintest knowledge of politics, and you will quickly be greeted with a frown or worse. Tammany historically means corruption on a grand scale,...
View ArticleBill de Blasio Tweets Spectacular Dad Joke About Facebook
In a move that surely induced cringes in teens and twenty-somethings the world over, Bill de Blasio tweeted a profoundly corny dad joke about Facebook last night. The missive was deployed at 8:58 p.m....
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Proportions of Matt: McConaughey Talks Craft to New York Crowd
Matthew McConaughey. Matthew McConaughey strode into the Film Society at Lincoln Center late last Friday afternoon as the Polar Vortex hesitantly gave way to a soggy mess. He’d just driven up town from...
View ArticleOn the Market: Spike Lee’s Gentrification Rant; Living in New York and...
Mobile street-parking app wants a cut of New York's parking profits. [Crain's]Checking out the progress on the major overhaul of St. Patrick's Cathedral. [WSJ]Spike Lee goes on long, amazing rant...
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To Do Wednesday: Get That Barf Out of Your Purse
Jolie Kerr's "My Boyfriend Barfed in My Handbag" Come meet Jolie Kerr, whose Ask a Clean Person column has covered dilemmas we’ve never even considered, from how to get sweat off a car seat to cleaning...
View ArticleGreen Mountain Coffee Roasters Leases First NYC Space
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters has signed a lease for 6,200 square feet at 120 Fifth Avenue, Commercial Observer has learned, marking the public company’s first New York City location. The specialty...
View ArticleBill de Blasio Narrows Search for New Film and Television Commissioner
As California ramps up its efforts to recapture “runaway” film and television production leaving the state, industry insiders here are counting down the days until Mayor Bill de Blasio announces his...
View ArticleWatch What You Text: iPhone Surveillance Startup Moves to NYC
mSpy has been helping people monitor each other’s phone activity since 2011, and the London-based company is now setting up shop in New York City’s Financial District. Founders Andrei Shimanovich and...
View ArticleBill de Blasio Insists He’s ‘Plenty Sunny’ Despite Recent ‘Bumps’
Mayor Bill de Blasio today acknowledged that his young administration had endured several “bumps” in its first two months, but said it’s still too early to judge his progress. In an interview with ABC...
View ArticleDorf Factor Five: Rhizome Hosts an E-Cigarette Conference
It took longer than you might have expected for the concept of a robot phallus to emerge at Saturday’s New Museum e-cigarette conference, but by the end of it they got there, during a faux marketing...
View ArticleOn the Market: Brooklyn Bridge Park Condos Are Selling Fast; Deeprak Chopra...
Gentrifying Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights see huge surge in bicycling. [Crain's]Toll Brothers swiftly sells out first batch of Brooklyn Bridge Park condos. [Brownstoner]How the housing market makes...
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Chasing Philip Seymour Hoffman, the National Enquirer Slips in the Mud
Those who enjoy media as a spectator sport were treated to quite a show yesterday, when the National Enquirer took the remarkable step of placing a full-page ad in The New York Times. The page A9...
View ArticleLiam Neeson Is a ‘Little Bit Pissed Off’ at Bill de Blasio
Mayor Bill de Blasio may have a seemingly endless parade of celebrity backers, but actor Liam Neeson will likely never be one of them. The Irish star denounced Mr. de Blasio on The Daily Show last...
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Illustration by Lauren Payne. The Times wrote a strongly-worded editorial about the guy behind the Goldman Sachs Elevator Twitter feed getting to keep the book deal even though it turns out that he...
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The Stritch is Back: Shindigger Cavorts with the Ladies who Lunch and Drink...
Mismatch: Elaine Stritch, Perez Hilton “After the movie’s over, she will be here answering your questions,” spluttered entertainment troublemaker Perez Hilton to an “animated” (read: gay) audience at...
View ArticleEspaillat Launches Bid for Congress: ‘We’re Very Optimistic We Will Win’
State Senator Adriano Espaillat kicked off his rematch campaign against Congressman Charlie Rangel this afternoon, vowing to unify the district as he attempts to defeat the state’s longest-serving...
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The Orchid Thieves: Larceny Blossoms, But a Surprising Lack of Floral Dresses...
Baccarat's table at the New York Botanical Garden Orchid Dinner. (Photo: Cutty McGill) There is a wonderful line in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America which reads, “One wants to move through life with...
View ArticleChancellor Says ‘We Are Turning the Page’ While Pulling Plug on Some...
Mayor Bill de Blasio took another step today to reverse the previous administration’s schools agenda, withdrawing nine co-locations approved last year, including three for Eva Moskowitz’s Success...
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