May 12, 2008
More NY: Ugly Betty's office, Muni Art Society awards
Inside the Woolworth Building (aka the "Ugly Betty" office for Season I) during Open House NY. Amy Langfield/NewYorkology.
NY-set "Ugly Betty" to move to New York (Bloomberg)
ABC's ``Ugly Betty'' television series plans to move filming to New York City to take advantage of tax credits in a switch that will create more than 200 full- and part-time jobs.
Red Hook ballfield food vendors to make pre-June cameo at Brooklyn Flea (Grub Street)
As of next Sunday, look for some vendors at Brooklyn Flea in Fort Greene, which already offers a great mix of eats (Cuban sandwiches! Organic ice cream! Hot bread!) along with the vintage furnishings and hipster crafts.
IAC Building, new NYT top Muni Art Society awards (Brownstoner)
The Floating Pool lady, moored at the future Brooklyn Bridge Park last summer (and now in the Bronx), won for best neighborhood catalyst along with The New Museum. Diane von Furstenberg's DVF Studio Headquarters in the Meatpacking District and the Museum at Eldridge Street won for best historic renovation.
NYC & Co. happy with "Sex and the City" pimping their brand (USA Today)
There could be no better advertising campaign for New York City," says Chris Heywood of NYC & Company, the city's tourism arm. Sex and the City: The Movie promotes the city's attractions "without costing us anything," Heywood says.
New public access for the monument at Fort Greene Park (Brooklyn Paper)
November will mark the centennial of the monument’s dedication (it was a big deal; President Taft was there!), and there’ll be a huge party to celebrate the occasion — including a look inside the crypt, where the remains of 8,000 of the 11,000 Americans who died on British prison ships during our Revolution, are kept.
Visiting Bayside, Queens (Forgotten NY)
Oakland Lake is the largest of a number of small "kettle ponds" left over from the passage of a glacier that stopped its southern progress in the middle of Long Island 15,000 years ago. According to the NYC Parks Department, it was once thought to be fully 600 feet deep, but the lake bottom was found to be just 20 feet in 1969.
May 12, 2008 9:18 PM in Etceterology
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