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Port Authority Denies 18-Month Delay at WTC PATH Station
Some call it a bird, some call it a stegosaurus. Ms. McKissack Daniel calls it late for dinner. At $3.4 billion (or is it $3.8 billion?), the new Port Authority Trans-Hudson terminal at the World Trade...
View ArticleOn the Market: Now Dubai’s Building the Biggest Ferris Wheel; Most Jobs At...
City's affordable housing often too costly for residents where it's built. [NYT] Related scores $390 million in construction loans. [Crain's] Former model Trish Goff is now a broker, sells to her old...
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Camera King Solomon Mosseri Buys $4.3 M. Home in Gravesend
"Ocean Parkway is the equivalent of Central Park or Riverside Drive" to the Syrian Jewish community, Mr. Temple told The Observer. (Property Shark) When New Yorkers think about $4 million Brooklyn...
View ArticleAmong Internet Users, Black People Use Instagram and Twitter More Than White...
The Pew Internet & American Life Project released a new survey on the demographics of social media users yesterday. The nonprofit, nonpartisan “fact tank” says its findings are the “first...
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Question Authority: Einhorn is Right to Demand Answers from Apple
David Einhorn. When David Einhorn, the poker-playing hedge fund superstar, decides to publicly take on a company whose stock he owns (or has shorted), he usually gets results. Once you establish a...
View ArticleThere Is No Love Lost Between Senator Ruben Diaz and Gerson Borrero
The latest edition of State Senator Ruben Diaz’s periodic “What You Should Know” email columns contained an attack against Gerson Borrero, a NY1 contributor and columnist for the Spanish-language...
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Lights Dimming On Sunnyside Movie Theater’s Run
Will Sunnyside residents be left with only Netflix and tears? (flickr) Despite the prevalence of iphones and macbook pros and the endless stream of streaming devices, the retro-loving hipsters of Kings...
View ArticleFacebook Says It Was Hacked Last Month, But ‘No Evidence’ User Data Was Breached
Facebook was hacked last month, according to a statement posted online today, after company employees visited an infected website. According to the statement, Facebook was victimized by the same...
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The Mysterious, Highly Lucrative Sale of 14 East 94th Street
It's an attractive place, but $24 million? In the final days of 2012, high-end properties passed between wealthy Manhattanites like a cold in a classroom full of kindergarteners. Among the last...
View ArticleGothamist Versus the Council General Counsel
A Freedom of Information Law investigation into the finances of City Council members conducted by the local news blog Gothamist led, Phil Monaco, a staff attorney in the Council general counsel’s...
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To Do Saturday: Get Wise
Danielle Levitt. Photographer Danielle Levitt (who shot porn star-turned-Lindsay Lohan The Canyons co-star James Deen for GQ) and creative pals Christina Chin and Caroleyn Ng have opened the Bowery’s...
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To Do Sunday: All Aflutter
After a steady diet of Nemo slush and flu-inspired vomit on the sidewalk, enjoy the warmth and startling beauty of the Butterfly Conservatory at the Museum of Natural History. The butterflies are kept...
View ArticleAdolfo Carrion Says He’s Running for Mayor With or Without the Republican Party
A beaming Adolfo Carrion confirmed he will be running for mayor whether or not he gets on the Republican Party Line, setting up the strong possibility of a three-way mayoral slugfest in the fall...
View ArticleInvasion of the Doppelgängers: Spammers Pose as Journalists and Techies on...
Spam accounts are nothing new on Twitter, as anyone who has ever tweeted the words “iPad” or “sex” can attest. But another spam ring has recently cropped up on the platform, and it uses the name cache...
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To Do Monday: Red All Over
If you have a penchant for poems, leftover Communist paint jobs and climbing lots of stairs, the KGB Bar’s Monday night poetry reading series is for you. Poets perform, soon-to-be-lovers drink big...
View ArticleOn the Market: The UWS Is Full of Old People; 15 CPW Pad Sells for $32.5 M.;...
Financiers sell 15 CPW for $32.5 million, nearly doubling $16.9 million investment. [NYT] SPURA-d on: Many of the biggest players in NYC real estate are eying LES development. [Crain's] The real...
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Five Essay Prompts for Girls 2×6: ‘Boys’
Boys (Illustration by Alex Bedder) These questions regard last night’s episode of HBO’s Girls. Please answer the prompts with specific examples from LAST NIGHT’S EPISODE, though supplementary material...
View ArticleBurger King Twitter Account Hacked, Immediately Turned Into Ad for McDonald’s
The official Burger King Twitter account has been hacked, and when it comes to terrible fast food, the hacker appears to have an allegiance to McDonald’s. “We just got sold to McDonalds! Look for...
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Price Hike for Pre-War Park Avenue Condos
The asks on the priciest condos at 737 Park hiked up 15 percent, after sitting on the market for less than three weeks. A Park Avenue co-op may be the ultimate in old New York style, but what happens...
View ArticleDrunk, Naked AlphaBoost Founder Matt Monahan Is Currently Trying to Sell His...
Earlier this afternoon, Gawker republished photos and video of Alphaboost CEO Matt Monahan drunk and naked during a vacation to India. The escapades were originally shared by Jesse Thomas founder of...
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