Archive for April, 2008
Federal Reserve Cuts Interest Rate to 2%
Photograph of traders and specialists on the New York Stock Exchange trading floor by David Karp/AP
The Federal Reserve lowered the federal funds rate by 25 basis points to 2%, giving that explanation:Recent info indicates that profitable activity remains weak. Household and trade spending has…
Provincetown Playhouse in Way of NYU Expansion
The historic – but not landmarked – Provincetown Playhouse in Greenwich Village could be the next building to prepare way for NYU’s ongoing expansion, which will devour six million square feet of space in New York in the next 25 years, whether all goes according to plan. The theater is wid…
Good Luck, PATH Commuters
A noontime manhole fire has helped knock out some PATH train service tonight. WNBC reports the Christopher Street station was filled with smoke and evacuated, and the “fire damaged signals and capability cables.” Path service within 33rd Street and the Journal Square and Hoboken stations is su…
The City’s Best amoung the Bread
We’ve got some damn tasty sandwiches in that city, no doubt about it. So nowadays the Times gives New Yorkers a collective pat on the back, surveying seven high points in our spectacular sandwich landscape, including Taim’s green falafel, the Knish Press (a sandwich composed in a split knish) fr…
EaterWire: Jour Et Nuit’s Teary Shutter mail, Kitchen Leaves at Montauk Club, and news from White Castle and Starbucks
MIDTOWN—As previously reported, Jour et Nuit shuttered earlier that week. Just now we got the official teary shutter e mail from the owners explaining what happened: “…we have actually been fighting with the landlord from nearly the beginning of the new restaurant…after months of bein…
Fire Extinguisher Street Art
Razor Apple has some photos of street artist MORAL’s work. He’s been bombing the city with fire extinguisher tags, one of a few taggers who uses that medium — where the fire extinguisher is loaded up with paint. Just one of the many contributing to the rise of graffiti in town!
Here’s an instr…
Questions About Alleged Bush Protester Arrest
Last week, the Post reported that an anti-war protester was arrested external the 92nd Street Y, after allegedly assaulting a teenager in a wheelchair. However, according to the NYPD, the protester, Gary “German” Talis was actually arrested for allegedly assaulting another individual–not the t…
CrimeWatch: Grayz GM Stabbed
TONY is reporting that George Atterbury, the striking general manager at Grayz who was featured in yesterday’s Gatekeepers column, was stabbed that daylight in Midtown: “TONY has confirmed via an NYPD press representative that George Atterbury, general manager at Grayz, was slashed at 7:54am ex…
Brooklyn Man Must Know Everything About What He Buys
Like No affect Man before him, Brooklyn resident Scott Ballum embarked final month on a year faraway mission to radically examine his own patterns of consumption. He’s calling it the Consume®econnection Project, and his plan sounds simple yet exhausting: The Mission: A year-long effort to mee…
Board Wrap: Mei Lai Wah Alternatives
· Detention Officers, Secretaries, and Journalists Quit Careers, Follow Food Dreams [SE]
· Reacting to Mei Lai Wah Shuttering, Chowhounders Look To Alternatives [CH]
· eGullet BenoitWatch Day 9: Still BYOB [eG]
· Macy’s B&J Stiffs Ice Cream Fans on Free Cone Day [Yelp]
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Hotel Chelsea Ousts Manager Glennon Travis
The residents of the Hotel Chelsea give a fly-on-the-wall report that “new” manager Glennon Travis (pictured) is on his way out. Travis took by as part of the “new management” team that replaced long day manager Stanley Bard final year. Here’s the good word:We’ve heard from multiple sources th…
Deathwatch: that weekend the Deathwatch Committee will…
This weekend the Deathwatch Committee will be in full session, and we’re accepting nominations. Send us your cold, tough reports of empty dining rooms, problematic staff changes, and suspected lease woes. that isn’t about restaurants you wish would die; it’s about restaurants you know will die….
100th Birthday Festivities Announced for Six NYC Bridges
Between 2008 and the end of 2010, six New York City bridges will turn 100 years old, and the newly formed New York City Bridge Centennial Commission will be making certain they’re adequately feted. The six centennial spans are the Madison Avenue, Manhattan, Borden Avenue, Pelham Bay, University …
