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Shaking the Shuffle: Harlem Small Businesses Contemplate the Future
Can new and old business thrive in Harlem? (MAS) Gentrification has taken hold in every corner of the city over the past decade or two, but few places have felt it as acutely as Harlem. Demographics,...
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Getting Rebecca to Stage “All I Care About,” Says Defrauded Broadway Producer
“Getting Rebecca: The Musical to Broadway is literally all I care about right now,” said Ben Sprecher, the theatrical producer who was taken for a ride by a would-be backer busted by Feds this week. In...
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No One Wants to Look at Brad Pitt Selling Perfume (Videos)
No one wants to look at you, Brad Pitt. Last Sunday, Chanel released its first CHANEL N°5 spot featuring Brad Pitt talking in front of a wall. But apparently no one wanted to see that, so the execs...
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Pols Can’t Resist Talking Politics at Ribbon Cutting for FDR Four Freedoms Park
I'm FDR and I approve of this message. (Diane Bondareff) It was not all somber speeches at the ribbon cutting for Four Freedoms Park yesterday. Naturally, this was an event honoring one the nation's...
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Sally Singer, Back in Vogue
Anna Wintour and Sally Singer: together again. Sally Singer is heading back to Vogue in the newly created role of digital creative director, The Fix reports. Ms. Singer left Condé Nast, where she was...
View ArticleMeet Two of the Developers Behind the Internet ‘October Surprise’
Earlier, a mysterious website popped up online promising to reveal an election “October Surprise” document drop showing that one of the “presidential candidates isn’t being honest.” The site is nothing...
View ArticleGoogle Stocks Tank After Printers Accidentally Send Miserable Earnings Report...
Even a dorky-looking pair of Google Glasses won’t be able to hide the disdain on Google CEO Larry Page’s face today. Reuters reports that the company’s financial printers, RR Donnelley, accidentally...
View ArticleMajority of New York Voters Do Not Want Alec Baldwin to Run For Mayor
A new poll of the race to replace term-limited New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg released last night included actor Alec Baldwin, who has hinted he might run for mayor. Based on the numbers, Mr....
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Google’s Eric Schmidt Loves FDR, Thinks Cornell Will Gentrify Roosevelt Island
Eric Schmidt digs Roosevelt Island. (Matt Chaban) It wasn't all politicos and power brokers at the ribbon cutting for the FDR Four Freedoms Park gathered at the tip of Roosevelt Island earlier this...
View ArticleCity Hall Horse Race: Marist Mania Edition
It’s time for the latest installment of our weekly scorecard rating how next year’s potential mayoral candidates performed in the past seven days. The most notable development was yesterday’s Marist...
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Goldman Sachs Human Resources Boss Reports ‘No Merit’ to Greg Smith’s Claims
Another day, another leaked passage from Greg Smith's forthcoming Why I Left Goldman Sachs, and another issuance from 200 West St. on the credibility of Mr. Smith's claims. At Bloomberg Television,...
View ArticleWilmerHale’s Offices at 7WTC Are Golden
After moving in to 210,000 square feet in the building earlier this year, law firm WilmerHale’s build-out at 7 World Trade Center has been awarded LEED Gold Certification from the U.S. Green Building...
View ArticlePark Slope Says Goodbye to Its Beloved Pepto-Pink Brownstone
It has long been heralded as the candy-colored jewel in the chocolate crown of Brooklyn’s brownstone belt, but the new owners of Park Slope’s wackiest house have decided, with the blessing of the...
View ArticleThe Best Tom Haverford Lines from the Parks and Recreation Episode about...
Now that boom times are here again, it’s not all that unusual to come across a company whose big swagging concept sounds like it was lifted from the pitch deck of Entertainment 720, the fictional...
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Olmsted Redux: Prospect Park Looks to Its Future by Restoring Its Past
Everybody say "Promenade." (Spencer Tucker/Mayor's Office) In 1867, Frederick Olmsted and Calvert Vaux designed a formal concert area in Prospect Park and called it Music Island. It stood as a curved...
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Michael Kimmelman Calls Madison Square Garden ‘the Worst Arena in Town’
Mr. Dolan, tear down this arena. (MAS/Twitter) The MAS Summit has been going on for the past two days, and it has been a cornucopia of delights for the city-obsessed, full of zany proposals for...
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Money in the Bank: Rap Overruns The Plaza for Children’s Rights
Swizz Beatz and DMC. (Shaun Mader/Patrick McMullan) We were exhausted—it was our third night in a row at The Plaza, and, quite frankly, we were becoming a little too familiar with the hotel’s ornate...
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Even Strip Clubs Are Gentrifying in the West Village
Signage will be something artsy, painted, but not graffiti style paint. Classy style paint. It can be hard to pinpoint the moment when a neighborhood passes from one phase of gentrification to the...
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Judge Halts Poorly-Named ‘Broadway Bomb’ Longboarding Race; Founder Responds
Broadway BombsYesterday, New York Supreme Court Judge Geoffrey D. Wright ruled in favor of a temporary restraining order that would halt an annual longboarding race through Manhattan this weekend....
View ArticleDaily Caller Identifies America’s Most ‘Punchable’ Journalists
Daily Caller Entertainment Editor Taylor Bigler apparently wants to punch several other members of the media. This afternoon, Ms. Bigler created a slideshow of the “Top 10 most punchable faces in...
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