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Calatrava Not Participating in Municipal Art Society’s Penn Station...
Calatrava no nos la clava: Santiago Calatrava won't be participating in the Municipal Art Society's "provocation" on Penn Station. Earlier this month, the Municipal Art Society announced a...
View ArticleRemorseful Redditors Attempt to Help the Search for Missing Student They...
As police searched the Boston area early this morning for the suspects in Monday’s bombing, online rumors began to suggest that one of the perpetrators was missing Brown University student Sunil...
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Brooklyn Zine Fest Brings Dream of ’90s Back to Life
Vendors at the Brooklyn Zine Fest. The dream of the ’90s was alive on Sunday at the second annual Brooklyn Zine Fest at Williamsburg’s Public Assembly. Lines snaked all the way to the end of the block...
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The Re-Education of Duane Reade: A Drugstore as Retail, Therapy
Duane Reade at 40 Wall Street. (Photo via Shao-yu Liu.) It’s not every weekend that Kerri Gristina, a schoolteacher living in the Bronx, manages to round up her three daughters and load them into the...
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Matthew Keys Fired From Reuters
Matthew Keys When Matthew Keys tweeted on Monday morning that he had been fired from his position as deputy social media editor at Reuters, speculation spread quickly on the Internet. Mr. Keys, who...
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Kickin’ Out Old School: Puffed Up Prepsters Warily Eye Collegiate’s Modern Move
The soon-to-be-former home of Collegiate School. Collegiate School is defined on Urban Dictionary as “a haughty, arrogant school.” When the Upper West Side boys’ academy is trailing in a basketball...
View ArticleEditorial: Cheap Shots
As Mr. Dooley once said—or was it Aristotle?—politics ain’t beanbag. Those who choose to solicit our votes and submit themselves to the many indignities of electoral campaigns know full well that the...
View ArticleEditorial: CUNY, Resurgent
Matthew Goldstein announced recently that he’ll step down as chancellor of City University in a few months. His retirement is well earned. After all, Dr. Goldstein has spent more than a decade in...
View ArticleEditorial: After Boston
It is hard to know what lessons New York’s law enforcement officials can take away from the Boston bombings, for the scenario seems to be precisely the sort of thing authorities have warned us about...
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All the Single Ladies Are Settling Down… With Houses
Women have emerged as a major force in the real estate market. (flickr, MoHatta18) It used to be that first came love, then came marriage, then came a three-bedroom house and a baby carriage. But women...
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The Return of Hooverville: The Deepening Crisis of Family Homelessness
Under Bloomberg, more enter the shelters but fewer get out. (Jori Bolton) By the time Anne Pierre and her sons arrived at 199 Amboy Street, it was after midnight. The heat of the unusually warm April...
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Tales of Sound and Fury: Here Lies Love Is Mesmerizing, Bountiful Has a Big...
Baldwin in 'Orphans.' (Photo by Joan Marcus) Bad news, Bette. Celebrity actors are bustin’ out all over the Theater District this spring, but it turns out the must-see event of the season is at the...
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A Tour of New York’s Squalid Underbelly, at the Tip of Your Fingers
The location of the 112-pound heroin shipment featured in the The French Connection. On any given block in New York, it's safe to assume that you are walking past the scene of some former crime--a...
View ArticleWeiner: ‘I’m Sure That Stuff Is Going to Come Out. Some of It May Be True’
Former Congressman Anthony Weiner’s media marathon today was even more expansive than it initially appeared, spanning at least six local channels as he seeks to repair his tarnished brand in the wake...
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Happy Birthday, Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald, circa 1946. (Photo by William P. Gottlieb) Today is Ella Fitzgerald's birthday--she would have turned 96--and there's a lovely Google doodle up now to honor the occasion. It seems to...
View ArticleMan Claims He Built the Empire State Building in Five Minutes
A modern building feat has occurred. In a new YouTube video that surfaced yesterday, user “Homeschooledman” alleges that it took him just “five minutes” to build the Empire State Building – and it...
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To Do Thursday: Bag Lunch
Prince Dmitri of Yugoslavia The cutesy-named “Purses and Pursenalities” luncheon benefits the Madison Square Boys & Girls Club, and this year it honors five fabulous and oft-photographed faces:...
View ArticleOn the Market: Claire Danes Buys In the West Village; Larry Gagosian’s UES...
Anne Liebovitz cuts price of village compound from $33 M. to $29 M. [Curbed] Cobble Hill residents raise funds to rebuild lightening-damaged church. [Daily News] Rockwell Group designs tree...
View ArticleMTA Debuts Cell and Wifi Service at 30 Stations to Distract You From Late Trains
Now social media editors can finally afford to leave their desks and shower. The MTA is announcing later today that it’s rolling out cell and Wifi service to 30 additional subway stops, including Times...
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