Tuesday, 3 January 2006
The penalty for jumping off a building is death
And other such New York City laws that you should be aware of. Let's start the new year right people!
[thanks to plip for the tip]
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Saturday, 10 December 2005
Partial Demolition
There's a hole being made on the side of the Engineering building of The Cooper Union. No details were available as of press time, but I welcome your guesses as to what this if for (I of course know, but am not at liberty to say... mwahhahha!)
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Wednesday, 29 June 2005
Is it just me...
or does the re-designed Freedom Tower look suspiciously like a watered down version of the Norman Foster WTC design entry?
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Tuesday, 28 June 2005
Charming Two Bedroom in the LES
Nightmare on Orchard Street
Renters beware.
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Wednesday, 15 June 2005
Schweaty Balls
Gotta love summer in the city.
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Thursday, 21 April 2005
High Line Countdown
Preliminary designs have been released for the proposed re-development of the West Side High Line elevated railway that runs through my old neighborhood of west Chelsea and Meat-Packing district. This is probably one of the most exciting public space works currently in development in NYC. Way better than that East Side subterranean monstrosity. (Over, not under please).
If you're really interested, there's also an exhibtion at MoMA on the project.
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Monday, 11 April 2005
God Bless Caffeine
Today I had my first go at the Mud Truck coffee, and I must say, i'm already hooked. I can't believe I've been at Cooper for 4 years now and missed out on this. It's really good stuff, and better karma than StarFucks. Not to mention their website has the following crazy caffeine tidbit:
"NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center researchers reported varying results when they gave various mind-altering substances to household spiders, then observed their webs. The spiders exposed to marijuana did the best spinning. Dr. David Noever, head of the research team, stated that the worst web was spun by a spider dosed with caffeine. April 1995."
Pot-loving-caffeine-junkies selling out of a truck! Sign me up. Oh, also, their cups are orange.
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Friday, 8 April 2005
ACW @ Snapshot
Three nights ago the Animated Coochie Wonders had their debut performance at the *Snapshot* party. Big success. Click the picture for more.
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Sunday, 3 April 2005
ElectroDiskoCrap
I'm sad to report that last night's offering of E.D.S. was not the raging success of the first one. Aside from the fact that no one we personally invited showed up, the move to saturday night didn't seem to work in our favor either. NuBlu has an established Saturday crowd, and we weren't feeling the lack of ambiguous sexuality that we had experienced the first time around. I'll skip over the part where I was made ill by some mistery meat pizza, but let it be known that we're in the search for a new venue so we can continue what we started. We're thinking The Cock, or any such permutation on the theme.
I'll keep you posted as things develop, but in the meantime, I leave you here with evidence of our host-theme for the night. Eyepatches.
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Thursday, 31 March 2005
Screw the West Side, we got our own problems in the L.E.S.
Hipsters are up in arms in the now-tragically-hip Lower East Side. The ruthless machinery of new development is taking out all the local establishments mostly by creating a sharp rise in the rent market, but often also by just crushing them to the ground to make room for "Luxury Boutique Hotels" and megaclubs with celebrity investors. It seems to me that trend-velopers who have ran out of space (and can no longer afford) the MeatPacking District are trying to repeat the model in the L.E.S.. The difference? People actually live here, and they have for a looooooong time. The ugly truth? Money usually prevails over tradition.
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Stadium wins!! Now, who's paying?
It seems the MTA has decided in favor of the Jets (+ Bloomberg Inc.+Olympic Interests). Their Bid for the West Side railyards development deal, the lowest one of all, would bring about "THE STADIUM"—you know the one on which the whole Olympic bid hinges on. So apparently everybody wins. Oh, well maybe not the millions of people who live in the city. I was able to catch some town hall meeting coverage on NY1 this morning. They were complaining about how the bidding process excluded the public entirely by pushing it through in the space of, erm, two days. Well hard not to agree with that. Also, as it turns out, the Jets bid is only for $200 million out of their own pocket. The remaining $400some millions would come through public funding that's yet to be approved, and which requires gargantuan ammounts of difficult re-zoning to occur.
In conclusion: I'm need to start watching morning news more often.
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Wednesday, 30 March 2005
ElectroDiskoSleaze: Round Two
ElectroDiskoSleaze @ Nublu in NYC
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Wednesday, 9 March 2005
Sub-LES Factions Cropping Up
I understand that NYC is known for their neighborhood rivalries, but is it not enough that we now have to sub-divide neighborhoods into smaller rival chunks? LES and LerES?? Give me a break, can't we all just get along.
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Saturday, 5 February 2005
ElectroDiskoSleaze
Big success. See you next month. Thank you to all the friends that stopped by, we had a blast.
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