April 23, 2008
More NY: Schwarzman Library, Brooklyn's Mario Bros.
The new home of the Museum of Arts and Design says howdy in advance of September opening. The current location will close Sunday. Amy Langfield/NewYorkology
NY Public Library on 42nd renamed Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (NY Times)
The main building of the library is being renamed in his honor after Mr. Schwarzman, a Wall Street financier, contributed $100 million to the institution, one of the largest gifts to a cultural institution in New York City
Little Owl in the West Village no longer dinner-only (Eater)
Yes, yesterday's reports were true. Yes, The Little Owl is open for lunch until 2pm. And yes, oh yes, they have wifi.
The history of New York City in video games (Bowery Boys)
As far as I can tell, the first video game to be circumstantially set in New York City is the original Mario Brothers game from Nintendo. Not the Super edition, involving Mario and Luigi in an acid-trip world of fire flowers and dragons, but the regular arcade version. The Mario Brothers are Brooklyn plumbers who clearly take their jobs seriously, scouring the sewers of the city for pesky critters transformed by an unexplained ooze.
Met Opera ends ban on solo encores for Juan Diego Flórez (NY Times)
He sang the aria “Ah! Mes Amis� again, nailing the difficult note — a kind of tenor’s macho proving ground — nine more times. It was one of those thrilling moments that opera impresarios live for.
New York's Desmond Tutu Center is Actually a 60-Room Hotel (Hotel Chatter)
The hotel sits in a massive Gothic-style stone building, outfitted with wrought iron bannisters, a "Refectory" right out of Oxford University, and enough stained glass and "olde-worlde" touches you'll hardly believe you're in Manhattan. There's even a British-style green quadrangle in the center.
Bloomingdale's workers to take strike vote ahead of April 30 contract deadline (Crain's)
Union workers rallied Tuesday at the Bloomingdale’s flagship store on East 59th Street to turn up the heat on contract negotiations with the store. As many as 500 members of Local 3 of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union demonstrated in front of the store between 11:30 and 2:30 p.m., union officials say.
April 23, 2008 9:35 PM in Etceterology
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