Here’s how the topic of real estate will be represented in Super Bowl ads this year: there will be a Century 21 commercial featuring guys like Donald Trump, Deion Sanders, and Apolo Ohno. Lines include: “How are Century 21 agents like the fasted skater on ice? They can react and adapt like a flash of lighting. Blinding, greased-up, shot-out-of-the-cannon lightning.” [WSJ]
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A five-story grow house in the Bronx was raided by police. Narcotics detectives, who were tipped off from someone in the community about the 610 Morris Park Avenue home, took 800 plants , some of them were 6 feet tall. [ more › ]
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Buzz Kill: Cops Seize 800 Marijuana Plants From 5-Story Bronx Home
The clock is ticking for everyone’s favorite purveyor of Ham Bowls to open up shop in NYC: Crain’s notes that after Walmart wined and dined us last summer, it’s now acting all “Oh we’ll call you next week.” In two years, the company will likely have to deal with an anti-Walmart mayor (although Christine Quinn has flirted with the store), and polling may not be so generous, so it’s crucial that they don’t squander the goodwill. “Walmart doesn’t know how to be a good winner,” a “political insider” says. Will they finally bust out the Wet kiwi strawberry intimacy gel and consummate this thing? [ more › ]
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Will Walmart Seal The Deal In NYC, Or Are They Facing A Rollback?
Click here to view the full photogallery. Here’s a sweet new Tumblr: Fuck Your Noguchi Coffee Table. Whoever runs it has a simple, clear way of expressing annoyance with the way interior photos are styled, musing things such as “Fuck your bookshelf with its books arranged by color” and “Fuck your Keep Calm and Carry On poster.” Might Curbed suggest some other potential blog posts? · Fuck Your Noguchi Coffee Table [official site via @choire ]
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Yesterday we brought you the unexpected discovery of a James Patterson quotation on a block of mimolette cheese at Chelsea’s Westside Market. Intrigued, we ventured to the store in search of the mind behind the rind. And there we discovered Peter “The Doctor” Daniels, a seven-year cheese man of the Westside Market and a 25-year veteran of the food industry, who started putting quotations on the cheese just to fill a labeling void. “There’s extra space where a description is supposed to go but I found that people weren’t reading them,” he explains. ” I thought I would put something else that people could be inspired by. ” [ more › ]
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Meet The Mysterious Cheesemonger Behind The Quotable Fromage
Under pressure from a lawsuit filed by the family of killed cyclist Mathieu Lefevre , the NYPD has released surveillance video recovered from the scene of the accident last October . And like all the other information that the NYPD has been forced to make public, the videos further underscore the haphazard nature of the investigation. After reviewing the videos, Streetsblog finds that the investigators’ description of the videos in their reports does not correspond with what’s in the videos. According to Streetsblog: [ more › ]
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Surveillance Videos Of Williamsburg Cyclist’s Death Don’t Match Investigators’ Reports
Photo via io9 Sad news for Trekkies everywhere: a brilliant Star Trek —themed one-bedroom apartment in the U.K. will soon fall victim to marital discord. Ultimate enthusiast Tony Alleyne decked out the 500-square-foot space with $150K worth of trappings in order to recreate the transporter chamber and control console aboard U.S.S. Voyager (complete with an aptly themed galley kitchen and bathroom), only to now have to give it up in his divorce proceedings (his soon-to-be-ex wife, who’s a co-owner, wants to sell it). “There may be a second option,” Alleyne insists in an CNBC interview. “She wants to dismantle the place in August or September, but there’s an option to maybe buy her out.” It should be noted that Alleyne, who has seen Star Trek at least 50 times, is the founder and owner of 24th Century Interior Design, a firm that combines his two loves: sci-fi and, apparently, decor. Photo via io9 · Star Trek flat has to boldly go says wife [The Sun via io9 ] · 24th Century Interior Design [official site] · Trekker Must Beam Out of His ‘Star Trek’ Apartment [CNBC]
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Mindblowing: Please Meet the World’s Most Unbelievable Star Trek Home
First, it was food trucks . Then it was the St. Patrick’s Day Parade . Now Hoboken is continuing on its straight-and-narrow path by denying filming permits for the Snooki and J-Woww Jersey Shore spinoff . Mayor Dawn Zimmer cited “public safety and quality of life concerns.” Perhaps this bikini is too terrifying for locals? [ more › ]
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Hoboken Denies J-Woww, Snooki Permit To Film Jersey Shore Spinoff
Frank Gehry has been tapped to design a 250-seat theater and in Culver City, Calif. The city donated the land gratis to the jazz nonprofit Jazz Bakery, whose new home will also include a museum, a black box performance area, and a bakery/café with outdoor dining. [Culver City Times via Curbed LA ]
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Police are looking for a “very young” Hispanic male aged 16-20, between 5’4″ and 5’7″, who brutally attacked a man in McCarren Park last week—beating his victim with a shattered bottle so badly he needed 37 stitches on his face, eight staples in his head and skin grafts on his left nostril. Take a look at this video, maybe you’ve seen him? [ more › ]
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McCarren Mayhem: Williamsburg Bottle Attack Victim Gets 37 Stitches, 8 Staples To Head