Democratic Mayoral Candidate Suggests Rudy Giuliani as Police Commissioner
Longshot mayoral candidate Erick Salgado wants to bring Mayor Rudy Giuliani back to City Hall– this time as the new police commissioner. Mr. Salgado, a socially conservative reverend, said he’d love to...
View ArticleCritics Question Christine Quinn’s Embargoed Campaign Schedules
Christine Quinn’s mayoral campaign scheduling arrives with a caveat that her rivals rarely, if ever, employ: “NOT FOR PRINT OR BROADCAST” and “ALL ITEMS EMBARGOED UNTIL DATE AND TIME OF EVENT.”...
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Could Entrepreneurship Help Low-Income New Yorkers Achieve Economic...
Manhattan has more entrepreneurs than any other borough. As more and more New Yorkers find employment in low-income jobs (35 percent of all New Yorkers now work jobs that pay $27,000 a year of less,...
View ArticleBloomberg Uses Terror Announcement to Bash Anti-Camera ‘Special Interests’
During his press conference announcing that Boston Marathon bombers intended to target Times Square, Mayor Michael Bloomberg slamed “special interests” he accused of trying to block the city from...
View ArticleThe Paris Review’s Westward Migration Continues, as Office Moves to Chelsea
On Monday the office of The Paris Review will move from its current home at 62 White Street in Tribeca to a third-floor space amid the galleries of Chelsea, at 544 West 27th Street between 10th and...
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Fashion Blogger PJ Gach Wins Brief Repreive From Eviction, Homelessness
Ms. Gach. It isn't much of a relief, but fashion and beauty blogger PJ Gach, who recently took to the internet to try and raise the $7,739 in back rent she needs to pay her landlord to fend off...
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Gold Digger: Is Kanye West Looking To Cash Out Of His Soho Condo?
Kim and Kanye are selling off their real estate holdings. (Patrick McMullan) Most couples who are expecting their first child go in for nesting, but Kanye West and Kim Kardashian seem to be doing just...
View ArticleHappy Birthday I.M. Pei: Oldest Living Pritzker Prize Winner Turns 96 Today
The oldest living Pritzker Prize winner turns 96 today. Chinese-American architect I.M. Pei will celebrate his 96th birthday with a “small, intimate affair,” his family relayed to The Commercial...
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To Do Friday: Bubblicious
Bubbles never lose their allure, even if we like to pretend, as we grow older, that they are only for children. The Gazillion Bubble Show, a 60-minute-plus paean to the beauty of bubbles that also...
View ArticleOn the Market: Living In the Mennonite’s Manhattan Mansion; Brooklyn’s Most...
Park51 developer reportedly considering condos for controversial site. [TRD] Abandoned Rockaway courthouse will become a medical center. [Curbed] "Sexy" renovations like gourmet kitchens rarely pay off...
View ArticleFor Some Reason, Eric Schmidt Thinks Talking to a Computer on Your Face Is...
Though current Google CEO Larry Page seems to be quite at home with his Google Glass, the company’s former CEO, Eric Schmidt, is much more candid about the strangeness of having the Internet dance in...
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Jurassic Snark: NYC Teen Raises $2,000 to Build ‘Christopher Walken Rex’
via Facebook Ethan Cyr has a dream. That dream is to build a 13-foot T-Rex with Christopher Walken’s head on it. And thanks to the Internet, his dream is going to come true. Yesterday, Humans of New...
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‘Red Alert’ for Eddie Scarry, FishbowlDC Butt Snapper
Eddie Scarry (Photo: Twitter) Eddie Scarry has made more than a few enemies in his time as a reporter for FishbowlDC, the media gossip blog owned by the New York-based Web company Mediabistro. At...
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Never Love a Wild Thing: Russian Billionaire Buys Capote’s Original Breakfast...
A little piece of New York society is moving to Russia. Truman Capote’s typed manuscript of his classic 1958 New York novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s, which tells the story of a young New York socialite...
View ArticleAh-nold Makes Appearance at Mayoral Debate
A mayoral election season that has been dominated by one hum-drum debate after the next got a rare moment of levity Friday when former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger made an unannounced...
View ArticleCity Council Takes NYPD To Task For Transparency, Passes Open Crime Data Law
Say what you will about the New York City Council, but the group really likes its open data. One thing the group isn’t in love with, however, is the New York Police Department’s lack of transparency....
View ArticleRumor Roundup: Zuck’s in Hawaii, While Kevin Systrom Looks So Maj Next to...
Hawaii Zuck-O Look who ditched the hoodie (but kept the Adidas sandals). Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was recently spotted indulging in a little Hawaiin R&R with wifey Priscilla Chan. US Weekly...
View ArticleSnoop Lion Now Has an App, But It’s Instagram He Really Loves
“I’m still Snoop Dogg. Snoop Lion is an extension of Snoop Dogg. He’s the fine-tuned Snoop Dogg, the perfection of Snoop Dogg in so many words.” The fine-tuned version of Snoop Dogg showed up an hour...
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Astoria Cove Unleashed: 1,535 New Homes Proposed at Halletts Point
Massing diagram of the Astoria Cove project, from the environmental assessment statement. The Halletts Point redevelopment proposal to bring 2,644 apartments to a forlorn peninsula of the Queens...
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Another Overpriced Trophy Listing Pulled From the Market: Steel Magnate...
Not quite as magical as Mr. Schecter thought. As any Times Styles section writer knows, it takes at least three to make a trend, so we guess we can officially call it now: the much-ballyhooed real...
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