While people are going crazy over the “Ground Zero Mosque” a representative for New York Dolls the local Strip Club is handing out coupons at the viewing site.
August 27, 2010
August 26, 2010
Tonight, Thursday, August 26th:
NolaFunk.com Summer Jazzfest featuring
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
w/Jon Cleary Piano, Bass, & Drums plus special guests High & Mighty Brass Band & DJ Cochon de Lait
5:30pm – 6:45 Doors open and DJ Cochon de Lait spins
6:45pm – 7:45pm High & Mighty Brass Band
7:45pm – 8:15pm DJ Cochon de Lait spins
8:15pm – 9:45pm Jon Cleary
9:45pm – 10:15pm DJ Cochon de Lait spins
10:15pm – 12:45am Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
1am HARD CURFEW
$35 advance, $40 door, Ages 18 & Up
@ South Street Seaport Water Taxi Beach
Fulton & South Streets, North Side of Pier 17 (Manhattan)
Tickets here.
Previously:
Live On Letterman - Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
Jon Cleary & The Absolute Monster Gentlemen - Mo Hippa
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August 22, 2010
Dueling Protests Over Proposed Community Center
from Paterson: Local Pols Thinking
Photograph of a discussion outside the planned mosque and community center site from last week by Seth Wenig/AP
This morning, Governor Paterson spoke on WABC Radio about the only thing that matters: The proposed mosque and community center situated at 45-47 Park Place, two blocks from the World Trade Center. According to NY1, “He… said local politicians are thinking of the site ‘clinically,’ reacting to its legality and not the human aspects, and not considering the emotional dynamic: “Whatever reasons people may have to oppose this — there are always bigoted people who oppose things. But leaving them out there is a sizable population that really is reacting just to the whole spectacle of this situation.”
August 16, 2010
FiDi’s New Futuristic Lounge
Only took a decade, but the most controversial 16 acres in America has a Freedom Tower going up and a Deutsche Bank building coming down.
But today we bring you a different reason to visit those grounds: the new Living Room Bar and Terrace at the W Downtown, opening today as your go-to for breezy, post-office rendezvous.
Among the new hotel’s 58 floors, you’ll want to concern yourself primarily with the fifth, which looks like where Judy Jetson would go for astro-cocktails if she worked at a galactic bond trading office: everything is shiny, white, metallic and glowing. Just like the future should be.
Stepping off the elevator, you’ll be dwarfed by the undulating ribbed ceiling, a strange organic shape pulsing with the heartbeat of thousands of recessed LED lights. Glide over to the bar, where you’ll find a more familiar take on downtown in the form of cocktails like the Brooklyn Bridge, Five Points and Dutch Courage, a jenever and tonic take on the English gin version.
But to really appreciate your locale, step onto the sprawling wraparound terrace, with the canyons of FiDi rising up all around, not to mention the Freedom Tower itself. Consider this your front row seat to the rise of New York’s next icon.
Because Lady Gaga can’t last forever.
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August 11, 2010
“Actor Mark Ruffalo brought a little star power to City Hall Tuesday as he joined local politicians seeking a moratorium on gas drilling upstate, warning that a misstep could contaminate the water of millions.”
Mark Ruffalo took it to the streets. Follow him. On Twitter.
July 26, 2010
Water Purifying Floating + Pool Cleans New York’s Rivers
This just might be the coolest thing I’ve ever seen. Ever.
No really.
With four distinct areas, the floating pool offers a variety of activities for different types of swimmers. Two shallower pools serve as a lounge and kid’s pool, while two deeper pools serve as a lap swim area and a sports pool. The whole pool can be used for larger swim events or opened up to 9,000 sq ft for free swim.
July 16, 2010
In the middle of tomorrow, a great ribbed ghost has emerged from a distant yesterday.
- Beautiful lede on City Room coverage of the 18th-century ship found at the WTC Site. (via caro)
July 9, 2010
The Real Deal: Construction begins at WTC Tower 3:
Construction is starting today at World Trade Center Tower 3, one of four planned skyscrapers in a spiral structure to be built by Silverstein Properties at the World Trade Center site, according to Janno Lieber, president of World Trade Center Properties, an affiliate of Silverstein Properties.
“This is an exciting moment in this project…We now have the entire WTC site under development, with 7.5 million square feet of space from Towers 2, 3 and 4.”
July 8, 2010
July 7, 2010
![We’re #1!…in decreasing home values. Per WSJ:
The Financial District recorded the biggest decrease, with average prices [per square foot] falling 16.3% to $869.21.
“Developers are cutting prices to sell units and that is likely driving the prices down,” Quinn Eddins, director of research for Radar Logic., said of the decline in the Financial District
“There’s a lot of anecdotal evidence of there being a large inventory of unsold units in that area.”](http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l57iw2lkV91qzmkmuo1_500.gif)
We’re #1!…in decreasing home values. Per WSJ:
The Financial District recorded the biggest decrease, with average prices [per square foot] falling 16.3% to $869.21.
“Developers are cutting prices to sell units and that is likely driving the prices down,” Quinn Eddins, director of research for Radar Logic., said of the decline in the Financial District
“There’s a lot of anecdotal evidence of there being a large inventory of unsold units in that area.”
