October 2, 2008
More NY: Fierstein as Edna, tiny Pod, WTC timeline
Crane passing the Statue of Liberty today. By Amy Langfield/NewYorkology
Fierstein may return as Edna Turnblad before Hairspray’s final bow (Playbill)
Hairspray, the Tony Award-winning hit Broadway musical, is expected to close in mid-January 2009, but not before welcoming back the Mother of All Ednas — Harvey Fierstein.
Overnight in the tiny Pod Hotel for $169 (Hotel Chatter)
No kidding, the room is so tiny, and was so crammed with our person, our backpack and a purse it took five minutes to realize we’d left a suitcase sitting in the hall.
New timetable hopes to open WTC Memorial by 10th anniversary (Reuters)
The Freedom Tower, centerpiece of the plan to rebuild Manhattan’s World Trade Center, will not be completed until 2013, well past the original target date of 2009, the landowning agency for the site said on Thursday.
Stabbing at a Queens “hotel” (Daily News)
When a man staying at the makeshift “hotel” in Liu’s apartment taunted him on Sept. 4, calling him a mouse, Liu’s temper flared and he stabbed the man.
SakMap: The Swiss Army Knife of Google Maps (Google Maps Mania)
It is also possible to view the weather at your chosen location, view the location on Virtual Earth and query Yahoo GeoPlanet for nearby places. And if that is not enough, you can also open a Google search for your location, open Google News, view Flickr photos of the location, read the Wikipedia article about the location, view videos and retrieve census information.
Full wraparound advertising in the subways (MTA)
Metropolitan Transportation Authority Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer Elliot G. Sander today announced a series of innovative advertising strategies to increase revenue generated by ads in the MTA’s transit system. Sander was joined by History’s™ Senior Vice President, Marketing, Chris Moseley, in unveiling the centerpiece of the initiative, the first fully-wrapped MTA NYC Transit subway car. Three cars will be fully-wrapped, inside and out, with a promotion for History’s™ television series “Cities of the Underworld” for the month of October.
October 2, 2008 9:26 PM in Etceterology
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