In the near future, beach-goers and amusement-lovers will no longer be reduced to entering the Coney Island Boardwalk like rats scurrying up the gangplank to a rotting death ship. For time immemorial, visitors have reached the boardwalk at 10th Street via two depressing ramps located on either side of the street—and it’s a miracle anyone makes it to the top without killing themselves in despair. But come 2014, mankind will at last access the legendary Sands of Coney via a grand beachfront entrance fit for pharaohs and captains of industry . Just don’t let the guys on unicycles while juggling torches set you on fire! [ more › ]
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Behold The Grand New Entrance To The Coney Island Boardwalk
The NYPD is asking the public to help identify an infant who was found abandoned in Sunset Park yesterday afternoon. Here’s a picture of the adorable baby! [ more › ]
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Baby Found Abandoned In Sunset Park Building Foyer
It seems that climbing the NY Times building will never go out of style: a man attempted to scale the New York Times building in midtown this morning (not pictured above). “There’s a guy who just climbed up a building and is doing pull ups climbing a building in times sq,” tweeted one onlooker earlier. And according to the Post , the unidentified man said he climbed the building because he was looking for a copy of the newspaper. [ more › ]
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Man Tried To Climb NY Times Building Looking For Copy Of Newspaper
Three men have been arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a 60-year-old woman Tuesday morning in the car leasing office where she works in Marine Park, Brooklyn. Carlington Haye, 30, Georges Etienne , 20, and Jonathan Nelson, 21, have all been charged with rape, robbery, sexual abuse and burglary in the assault. “They were creepy. I saw them walk into the building. I felt like I wanted to go inside and lock my door,” one witness told the Post. [ more › ]
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Three Men Charged With Raping 60-Yr-Old Woman In Brooklyn
You know how most people pray not to be seated next to a crying baby on a flight? Well, we are now going to spend the rest of our lives praying to be sat next to a penguin. Because, yes: Penguins can fly! First class, even. Seriously, we’ve got your proof right here: [ more › ]
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Video: Motherf*king Penguins On A Motherf*king Plane
Cafe 501′s high-tech lighting scheme. (Photo: Contemporist ) · Oklahoma City’s stylish Cafe 501 [Contemporist] · Lawsuit pending to prevent sale of Empire State Building. [WSJ] · Celebs who sold their homes for under $1M. [Zillow Blog] · Transforming “the world’s ugliest condo.” [Apartment Therapy] · Paris’s odd, metallic M Building. [Dezeen] · The making of the world’s smallest music venue. [Co.Design]
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Linkage: Okie City’s Slick Cafe 501; Empire State Legal Battle; More!
Yesterday the Oreo cookie turned 100 years young, and although half the office was diving into Double Stufs all day, we didn’t give the cookie any ink. We just assumed the cookie was from Ohio or something! But this morning we learned (via this handy PDF sent to us) that in 1912 the first Oreo rolled off the line at… the Chelsea Market in Manhattan! Which makes sense since from 1898 the building was the National Biscuit Company (Nabisco) factory complex. [ more › ]
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Happy Belated Birthday Oreo, We Had No Idea You Were Born In NYC!
After seeing the menu presented to Eliot Spitzer, it’s easy to understand how Manhattan Madam Anna Gristina reportedly made millions by charging clients thousands of dollars for each encounter. According to the Daily News, “Dream Model” girls cost $1,000, and the “Ultimate Elite Model” experience could be more than $2,000. Friend of Gothamist and CNBC reporter John Carney’s Wall Street sources don’t buy it. “Maybe this was true in 2006. No one is paying $2000 these days. I’m not even sure anyone ever did. Not for one girl.” But our own sources say this pricing is alive and well. “Those expensive women are the ones you actually want to be seen with,” a source says. [ more › ]
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Are People Still Paying $2,000 For High-End Hookers? (Probably)
Brooklyn has many monuments regular folk don’t get invited into on a regular basis—and of those, the Domino Sugar plant that anchors the endangered Brooklyn Industrial waterfront looms large. Though it is eventually going to go residential , the area remains out of reach for most of us for now ( most of the time ). Unless of course you are willing to climb some fences: [ more › ]
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Video: Breaking Into Brooklyn’s Industrial Waterfront
The tap water in a section of Bushwick near the border of Queens is coming out filthy and stinking, as you can see from these disgusting photos and video. A tipster who resides on Linden Street between Myrtle and Wyckoff tells us that as of last night “all the water on my block is running yellowish-brown with little bits of particulate that settle out of it if you let it sit. The water has a metallic, sort of hard smell with a hint of sewer. Apparently it’s not just my building, but the whole block. I’m contacting other neighbors in the area to see how big the phenomenon is. Pretty gross!” Gross, indeed: [ more › ]
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Video: Brown Tap Water In Bushwick Is Not Specifically Too Good