Archive for January, 2008
Hospital Closures About To Reach Dobbs Ferry
Adding to a growing trend among hospitals that were slated for closure by a state health care commission, a Westchester hospital has announced that it is abandoning a legal battle to keep its doors open. The Community Hospital at Dobbs Ferry will relinquish its operating certificate in the coming mo…
If Mayor Runs, ‘Empirically, He Can Win’
A venture capitalist who founded a company expressly to support a presidential run by Mayor Bloomberg, and who is conducting nationwide voter analysis for the mayor, says his details show that Mr. Bloomberg can win the White House. James Robinson IV, the founder of the technology and input analysis …
Big Bets Made by Democrats on Gambling
Democratic governors across the country are increasingly betting on gambling revenues, rather than tax increases, to balance state budgets strained by the slowing economy. In Maryland, Governor Martin O’Malley is endeavoring to shut a $1.7 billion budget gap in part by urgent the state to legalize s…
Czech that out
Nothing makes me hungrier than seeing a cartoon of the steaming severed head of an animal.Original post by Queens Crapper
Jamaica Center is crap central
Today, I went shopping in Jamaica Center, one of the few places in the city whee you can still bargain the price of your clothing. Price tags can easily be ignored “just for you, my friend.” That’s what I like about shopping here- it’s cheap, and the customer gets to argue the price.Attached are pho…
The Party Line
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. — Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)The January 31st deadline for a decision on the Pier 40 RFP has come and gone and …
Told Ya So’s, Headshaking by Giuliani Campaign
Rudy Giuliani’s poor showing in the presidential campaign has plenty of society giving their opinions on why it all went wrong.
Bronx residents gave the NY Times an earful about the former mayor (”I was waiting for that moment — he stinks…Giuliani was always for himself, never for the folks.”…
CurbedWire Special: Those waiting for a decision on…
Those waiting for a decision on the Pier 40 plans will have to wait longer. The Hudson River Park Trust declined again to vote on proposals without accepting or rejecting plans from the Related Companies and the Pier 40 Partnership. A Curbed correspondent at the assembly reports that there will …
Deathwatch: Suba
Suba. Suba, Suba, Suba. Subaduba. The problem with that restaurant, owned by Yann de Rochefort and cheffed by Seamus Mullen, who each do the same at the hugely successful Boqueria, is not its two stars. It’s additionally not the mostly subterranean digs or the menu, really—although …
CurbedWire: BelDel Gets Glassed, Brooklyn Gets Classed!
BELDEL—Things are getting glassy down below Delancey on the Good Old Lower East Side. Above left, the scaffolding is down at the new development on the corner of Ludlow and Broome, while at right, old friend 50 Orchard Street is really looking the part. [CurbedWire Inbox]
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Comment of the Day: “Let me see whether I understand…
“Let me see whether I understand that correctly. Bleecker Street residents complain to Gray Line about their loud tours. Gray Line determines it is best for their trade to be respectful of the community’s wishes. The way Gray Line does that is by slightly altering their employee’s performance. E…
Liquid Love and Other Signs of Bed-Stuy
There’s a good case to be made that Bed-Stuy has some of the more different signs and establishments to be found in New York City. No further proof is needed than the drinking spot known as Liquid Love, which is “A Sophisticated assembly Place.” whether the signs and liquid love don’t do it fo…
Post-Plywood: Brownstoner scores the first look inside…
Brownstoner scores the first look inside Weather Up, the new Prospect Heights cocktail lounge where the bartenders are being trained by none other than Milk and Honey’s Sasha Petraske. The lineage of the owner’s connection to East Side Company is additionally evident in the design (click throug…
