March 24, 2008
More NY: harbor seal returns, Morrison Hotel opens
Red Hook 2008 by Jim Clark (of Look North Inuit Art Gallery)
More reasons to worry about taking pictures in NYC (City Room via Curbed)
He answered, “Breaking cameras is illegal, too, but if you don’t stop taking pictures, I’ll break your camera.” He modified “camera” with an adjective I am not permitted to repeat here. I identified myself as a reporter from The Times. “I’ll break your camera,” he said, using that adjective again, “and you can print that in your paper.” I distinctly remember thinking, “No, I can’t.”
Morrison Hotel moves into old CBGB Gallery space (Brooklyn Vegan)
While the interior of the 313 Bowery space will change with each show, the Morrison plans to maintain many original elements of the CBGB's Gallery, including the bathroom graffiti, an original wall logo stencil and a panel of show posters and hand-bills from CBGB's 10th anniversary that were buried in an inner wall.
Fashion Week might move to Rail Yards after 2010 (Daily News)
An insider says the recognition is in part for Hizzoner's long-range pledge to von Furstenberg that whoever wins the bid to develop the rail yards will have to ensure that the complex can host Fashion Week.
$200,000 fatality payout after newbie cabbie jumps curb (Gothamist)
How much insurance goes to a woman left paralyzed and widowed after an out-of-control cab plowed into her and her husband last October? According to the Post, just $200,000.
More Hudson River harbor seal pictures (Urban Hawks)
There has been a Harbor Seal to the north and south of the Boat Basin (79th and the Hudson River) for the last few months. I got to see the seal on Saturday. Too bad. If it was on Sunday, I could have made bad puns about the Easter Seal.
Gleason's still Gleason's (Jeremiah's Vanishing NY)
Thankfully, not much has changed inside the old gym. Once the door closes behind you, you can imagine you're still on a former Front Street. Aside from a few young women in hot-pink gloves and a few middle-aged men with white-collar faces, the room is filled with boxers, serious and sweating. Champions and contenders still train at Gleason's.
March 24, 2008 04:32 PM in Etceterology
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