Having just completed a massive renovation, including radical upgrades like the addition of new stories to the building, The Marcel has risen in more than just height; this hidden gem in Gramercy just claimed an extra star for their efforts.
This is the first major public works in New York State being named for Bobby Kennedy, who was New York’s junior senator when he was assassinated in California in 1968 while campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination.
A California musician who died days after riding the Cyclone should have known that riding the rickety 80-year-old Coney Island coaster is dangerous, the city says in new court papers. Keith Shirasawa, 53, died in August 2007, five days after he snapped his neck and fractured several bones in his neck during a downhill plunge on the wooden roller coaster.
Students spent October observing 3,000 cyclists chosen at random at 69 locations throughout the five boroughs; they found that only 43 percent of all cyclists stopped at red lights, and roughly 14 percent did not use designated bike lanes, which is not required by law.
City Winery, a new performance space and restaurant established by Michael Dorf, the founder of the Knitting Factory, will have its first concert on Dec. 31 with the singer-songwriter Joan Osborne.
City’s Latest Landmarks Are NYU’s University Village in Greenwich Village; the Guardian Life Insurance Company Annex at Union Square East; the Morris B. Sanders Studio and Apartment in Turtle Bay; the New School’s Former Baumann Bros. Store off Union Square West;Pratt Institute’s Renaissance- Revival Building in Greenwich Village, a Former FDNY Firehouse in Midtown and a WPA-Era NYC Parks Department Pool Complex in Red Hook.
Before the regular season even begins, Yankee Stadium’s new turnstiles will spin for the first times. The Yankees announced on Monday that gates will open to fans for a pair of exhibition games against the Chicago Cubs on April 3 and 4.
Not that such a project would — or even could — happen in the ravaged economy of the foreseeable future, but the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announced on Monday that it had chosen an architectural design for an office tower atop the Port Authority Bus Terminal.
After accusations of mismanagement, sexual harassment, thievery and duplicity, the two old pals broke up for good in 2005. It’s been war ever since. The latest incident occurred this past August, when an irate Giovanni chased a Da Silvano employee out of Bar Pitti, screaming Italian epithets. Like Vesuvius, the feud, which had lain dormant for a few years, erupted again.
What I did was to walk Smith from the Smith-9th Street station north to downtown, while attempting to ferret out the remaining vestiges of Smith’s former role as furniture-store mecca, Hispanic hub and middle-to-lower class boulevard, before it was, er, ah, gentrified (the defining marker in that evolution was the 1997 opening of French bistro Patois amid the bodegas). I deliberately stayed clear of the cutesy and precious gewgaw shops and inns that have opened along the route; I’m not their designated demographic or income level. There’s a liitle bit of classic Smith left.
The Bloomberg administration is in serious negotiations to buy 10.5 acres of real estate in Coney Island that once appeared unobtainable - a move that would save both Astroland Park and the mayor’s plans to revive the slumping seaside amusement district, The Post has learned.
In addition to a sleeker look, the $25 million project is to include redundant power sources, giving operators multiple ways to keep the tram moving at full speed even on those occasions when power has been lost.
Google “has added New York City transit directions and brought its ads to the Big Apple, wrapping an ‘S’ shuttle train that runs between Grand Central and Times Square. Trouble is, the directions it gives in the ads aren’t always correct,” Advertising Age reports.
The Port Authority expects fencing around the entire site to be covered with the new signage by Thanksgiving. The agency says it will periodically update the signs as the project progresses.
Some chatted with Anons about more serious issues with the Church of Scientology, and even let themselves be taken on brief, fanciful “tours” of Scientology.
More NY: new Grimaldi's, Delta's No. 1, neon election
West Side taxi stand. Amy Langfield/NewYorkology
Grimaldi’s to open Manhattan outpost at John and Water (Eater) Grimaldi’s owner Frank Ciolli has just confirmed that he plans on opening a new outpost of Grimaldi’s in the Financial District directly across the river from the original Brooklyn space in the “early part of 2009”.
Election Night news frenzy in Times Square (NY Convergence) During the evening on Election Day, ABC will be offering NYers multiple opportunities to keep tabs on election results, including multiple data feeds on the Reuters and NASDAQ buildings, headlines on the ribbon outside of Good Morning America (GMA)’s Times Square studio, and an outsized “monitor” on the GMA sign that will let crowds on the street watch the network’s Election Night broadcast.
New York magazine sign bumped by Burberry (NY Times) Next March, Burberry, the British luxury goods brand, will move its United States headquarters to 444 Madison Avenue, between 49th and 50th Streets, and will top off the 42-story tower with three glowing Burberry signs, which will also show the time and temperature.
Merger makes Delta the world’s largest airline; American goes No. 2 (USA Today) Delta Air Lines (DAL) completed its purchase of Northwest Airlines (NWA) Wednesday, hours after the Justice Department announced that the merger of two of the nation’s largest airlines will save consumers money without damaging competition
Q&A with author of Green-Wood Cemetery book (Urbanite) Q: Which gravesite is the spookiest?
A: There is a really strange gravestone. It belonged to [former mayor of Brooklyn] Charles Schieren. The mayor and his wife died a few days apart, they both had pneumonia. The monument is the angel of death. I think it’s one of the eeriest.
Buying surplus from the MTA (NYC The Blog) The website notes “COMING SOON!!!” Subway Poles $25.00 and I do agree that is worthy of red letters and multiple exclamation points.
The New York Botanical Garden is currently in the throes of an amazing fall transformation. Although they currently have enormous Henry Moore sculptures scattered throughout the park, more striking art hangs on the trees in the Native Forest section, particularly those hugging the shoreline of the Bronx River.
Delta has just extended the deal for its economy-class passengers flying in or out of JFK that allows them to take a Manhattan helicopter transfer for only $45. The offer is good for flights purchased after Nov. 1 for travel through December 31.
Harrah’s Entertainment Inc. and Trump Entertainment Resorts Inc., Atlantic City’s two largest gaming operators, said they have both suffered a 10 percent decline in business at their casinos since the smoking ban began Oct. 15. The New Jersey Casino Control Commission said gaming revenue fell 19.5 percent for the entire industry over a seven-day span ending last Friday.
Hi, Ms. von Hardenberg or whoever sends these unsigned emails,
This is beyond belief. Please provide us with what you have repeatedly promised or provide us with adequate compensation for having to exchange over 20 (!) emails to book an apartment to find out two days before arrival that the fourth apartment you have offered us is not available and you intend to move us between two apartments neither of which meets the criteria of what you originally confirmed and took over $1000 Paypal deposit for!
nd finally (and most importantly) the free stuff! Even if you don’t want an $8 sandwich, you should stop by for the upstairs freebies. Wine tastings is the big draw (hello!), but there are also little bites of cheese, dark chocolate from Ghirardelli, ice tea, and some 2 minute makeover thing.
The project, described as “an effort to spotlight and safeguard one of New York’s most important cultural institutions,” is planned for the theater’s 75th anniversary in 2009 and will include online and on-site exhibitions, an educational program for public school students and an archive of audio and video interviews with Apollo performers such as Smokey Robinson, Leslie Uggams and Fred Wesley.
“Rap isn’t all drugs and shooting people. I was born in Manhattan, moved to Mamaroneck when I was eight. My parents still live in the same house. My father is a wealth manager. My grandfather is a psychoanalyst; his wife is a food critic. When I was sixteen, they took me to London and to the Royal Shakespeare to see ‘Henry IV,’ Parts One and Two, in one day—eight hours.”
When Shea Stadium opened April 17, 1964 Shea Stadium was essentially unfinished, despite being under construction since 1961. When the crowds filed in, paint on the wood seats was still wet. Very few telephones in the stadium worked — telephone workers were on strike.
The Village Voice Halloween Parade is taking place next Friday evening, Oct. 31. and needs volunteers to be part of their puppets, a marshall, or to help out in anyway you can running errands, assisting others, etc.
On Monday, October 20 beginning at approximately 5:00 a.m., the barge carrying the Concorde will be towed by Weeks Marine from Jersey City up the Hudson River to Pier 86 where it will be tied in place on the north side of the pier. At approximately 9:00 a.m., a 300-foot crane will lift the Concorde approximately 100 feet into the air, clearing a row of flagpoles along the edge of the newly built pier, and onto its new pad at the end of Pier 86, where it will be permanently installed.
The fat-cat fanatic ponied up a record $200,000 a pop for two “personal seat licenses” - a one-time fee giving him the right to buy the two best Jets season tickets at the team’s new Meadowlands stadium that opens in 2010, said a source who witnessed the sale.
The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council has been selected to run an artists’ studio and exhibition space on Governors Island that will include a year-round artist residency and weekend events.
The one-acre parcel that was purchased by the Bloomberg administration is actually the site of the Deno’s Wonder Wheel kiddie park immediately adjacent to the Wheel. …
Violations for smoking inside bars and restaurants jumped by a third in the past year, which comes as no surprise to nonsmokers, who complain that bartenders are increasingly blowing off the five-year-old smoking ban.
“What’s especially troubling about this is, this is a place we understand, we treat with special reverence and dignity and respect,” said Stringer. “We don’t think this should be a three-ring circus where profiteers are cashing in on one of the worst tragedy to befall the United States of America.”
The Guggenheim’s upcoming group show, called “theanyspacewhatever,” features artists who like to “claim the exhibition as their medium.” And what better way to claim the Guggenheim than to spend the night with it? From October 24th to January 7th, Carsten Höller’s Revolving Hotel Room invites guests to stay over at the museum by sleeping in an art installation comprised of three turning glass discs mounted onto a fourth disc “that all turn harmoniously at a very slow speed.”
An heir to the French fashion house Hermès appeared in federal court on Wednesday afternoon on charges he assaulted the captain of a jetliner en route from Paris to New York, grabbing the pilot’s crotch and trying to punch him.
The ongoing Coney Island redevelopment soap opera has taken a major turn today: The New York City Economic Development Corporation has announced it’s signed a property acquisition agreement with Ward Realty Corp. to buy an acre of Wonder Wheel Park in the amusement core in Coney Island, Brooklyn.
While the Museum of Arts and Design was loudly trumpeting the opening of its new facility on Columbus Circle, it was also quietly planning the sale of objects from its collection—-not at Sotheby’s or Christie’s, but at the more under-the-radar, British-based Bonhams
He’s accused of stealing more than $200,000 worth of electronics, including a $47,000 camera from HBO. Oddly, it was CNN that helped bust the “one man crimewave” when an employee noticed some of their equipment being sold on eBay.
A manager from a recently opened Midtown Lunch’ing spot told me the other day that three of his friends have a franchise license from Baja Fresh and plan on bringing a location of the chain to 8th Ave in the 50s.
I don’t know how the Metropolitan Opera’s stock portfolio has weathered the financial storm of the past few weeks, but the company suffered a catastrophic hit Thursday night when the machinery that normally moves sets broke down and the huge sets had to be moved by hand.
I knew something was wrong when the long intermission between acts two and three of “La Gioconda” had already lasted 40 minutes
The five buildings at 47-49-51-53-55 West 28th Street has been put up for sale as a group. The Loopnet listing recommends that they be demolished, “yielding over 111,000 sf of Prime Chelsea property.”
See the list of Tin Pan Alley hits, including “Give My Regards to Broadway,” “The Sidewalks of New York,” and “Happy Days Are Here Again.”
A computer hacker is threatening to release “personal and sensitive” e-mails swiped from the swank Thompson hotel chain after taunting the company about its lax security practices.
I suppose I want a return to the waterfront the way it was, with manufacturing, shipbuilding and stevedoring…working. The realities, though, were a choice between decaying remnants of a maritime past, empty and ghostlike, or a bustling furniture store providing employment to area residents, some of which are from the projects and needed the break.
Once shooting started the paparazzi started jockying for position. I’ve never stood with them before and soon realized that it was a blood sport. Each time one got in a good position another one would get in front of that one. There was pushing and shoving and two guys almost came to blows. The phrase “Don’t f- with me man!” was uttered right before someone from the show came over and told them all to cool it, that they were distracting the actors.
Last year, 157,000 visitors from India came to New York, according to the tourism bureau. The hope is that the new office will dramatically increase that number, considering that India’s population exceeds one billion.
