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Host Committee Spotlight: Bump Shoulders With the Beau Monde at Our Redesign...
Celebrate the Observer‘s new look at Casa Lever. (T Whitney Cox) The best thing about living in New York is that it’s constantly evolving into an even more exciting version of itself. It’s a town that...
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What Is the ‘Pussy Policy’ of The New York Times?
A big pussy. (Photo via Wikimedia Commons) The New York Times is famously prudish when it comes to printing obscenities. As Jesse Sheidlower notes today in a Times opinion piece, which makes a...
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Lockup! Related, Taconic and WeWork Eye Former Chelsea Prison
A number of developers and co-working giant WeWork toured the former Bayview Correctional Facility, a defunct women’s prison in Chelsea, with an eye toward possibly bidding on the property, according...
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Who Got a New Media Job Today?
For all the hand wringing over the death of the media industry, people in media sometimes get new jobs in media. Why, just today a bunch of people announced new jobs. Here is a (probably partial) list...
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A Coffee House Catering to Construction Workers and Budding Novelists Opens...
East Bed Stuy, “under served” no more. (Wiki Commons) In the popular imagination, the mechanisms of gentrification generally follow a rough pattern. We tend to assume that fair-trade coffee shops,...
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Brew and Improved! Brooklyn Brewery Cracks Top Ten National Honors
Where Brooklyn at? No seriously I’m drunk. (brooklynbrewery.com) We all know Brooklyn is becoming so much of a brand it might as well be Nike at this point. On the upside, it now has a built in slogan...
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Fresh From the Can: Spam Hits the Menu at Trendy NYC Restaurants
Not from your college dorm. (Image from Getty) Spam sushi, anyone? Chefs from Brooklyn and the Lower East Side are cooking up tasty new hybrids out of Spam, according to Gothamist. At New York Sushi Ko...
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A Hunting We Will Go! Fabergé Big Egg Hunt Hits NYC
Putting all these eggs in one basket (Photo by Fabergé). We could sit here and reminisce about the days we spent Easter egg hunting as children, bunny ears and all. But we’d much rather go hunting...
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Council Progressive Caucus Elects New Leadership Team
Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito with two members of the Progressive Caucus. (Photo: NYC Council/William Alatriste) The City Council’s Progressive Caucus, the left-leaning body that sparked the...
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Every Press Conference Should Be Like the WrestleMania Press Conference
Can we tell you all the reasons why the WrestleMania 30 press conference – put on by World Wrestling Entertainment to promote its biggest event of the year – was better than all other press...
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In Luxury Amenities Race, New York’s Rooftop Barbecue Pits Lose Out to D.C.’s...
Does your condo have this? (Tadson, flickr) For years, New York has been on the vanguard when it comes to pioneering new luxury condo and rental amenities—from the now-standard gyms and ubiquitous...
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Granny’s Gone to Brooklyn: Grandparents Invade the Hipster Haven
Barbara Standley moved to Brooklyn to be closer to her grandkids. Barbara Standley went through the usual frustrations when she first moved from Phoenix to Greenpoint in 2011: fruitless weeks crawling...
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Hilaria Baldwin’s Good Will Mission to the New York Post
Everyone could use a little ‘Namaste’ Hilaria Baldwin, a yoga instructor and wife of tabloid foe Alec, stopped by the New York Post today to do some yogic postures and spread some zen, the Post...
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De Blasio Hosts Reporters Roundtable at City Hall
Mayor Bill de Blasio chatting with City Hall reporters this afternoon. (Photo: Rob Bennett/NYC Mayor’s Office) Mayor Bill de Blasio sat down with reporters around a roundtable this afternoon at City...
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De Blasio Very Proud of Positive ‘New York Post’ Cover
Bill de Blasio marvels at today’s New York Post. Mayor Bill de Blasio is quite pleased with his strike-out pitch yesterday–and the positive front-page it earned him in the often critical New York Post....
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The Port, After Samson
David Samson has quit as chairman of the Port Authority, claiming, through his sponsor, Governor Chris Christie, that this was the plan all along. Actually, Mr. Christie said, Mr. Samson had been...
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Jukebox the Ghost Throws a Party for the Weird Kids
The members of Jukebox the Ghost, sitting in Pete’s Candy Store in Williamsburg after a recent rehearsal, can barely contain their excitement about a song they’ve just played. “It has a really good...
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Obama Praises Cuomo and de Blasio’s ‘Remarkable’ Pre-K Deal
Barack Obama and Bill de Blasio in Brooklyn earlier this year. (Photo: Mandel Ngan/Getty) Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio just got an official boost from above. President Barack Obama’s...
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Manhattan’s First Micro-Unit Development Closes on Construction Financing
It was a tight deal for an even tighter development. M&T Bank recently closed a $10.3 million construction loan for the creation of Manhattan’s first micro-unit rental property to be built in Kips...
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Bill de Blasio Still Backing City-Based Minimum Wage Hike
Mayor Bill de Blasio at his State of the City address. (Photo: NYC Mayor’s Office) Mayor Bill de Blasio is not giving up on his minimum wage hike dream. Though his ballyhooed proposal to raise the...
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