Tag Archives: NYC

Remember how closet case and former NYC Mayor Ed Koch supported an anti-gay Republican for the U.S. House in order to punish the president for “abandoning Israel”? Remember how much mileage NOM has gotten out of that mess? Forget all that, because now Koch says he loves the president again because Obama clearly “got my message.” Koch says he’s pleased …

“Unprovoked police brutality.” Watch this.

Manhattan’s new country/western gay bar. SRSLY.

My favorite lunch spot of late is this UES dive where a long line of day laborers and hardhats point through a fogged-up steam table to select from a dozen trays of shredded pork, ox tails, bistecca, plantains, etc. My two favorite cuisines in one place: Spanish and stuff that’s already ready! (Note: The place does have a real name, …

Yesterday the NYPD crashed a protest march from Union Square to Wall Street, pepper-straying some young women and arresting over 100. The #OccupyWallStreet action has been going since last week. Scores of protesters were arrested in Manhattan Saturday as a march against social inequality turned violent. Hundreds of people carrying banners and chanting “shame, shame” walked between Zuccotti Park, near …

It may be a boring-ass mini-mall today, but once upon a time the Limelight was the nightclub. I didn’t live in NYC during its heyday, but I always made at least one visit any time I was in town. It’s the only nightclub I’ve ever been thrown out of! True story. I also own the starburst light fixture that used …

New York is considering selling ad space on the sides on the city’s thousands of public housing projects. Mayor Bloomberg supports the plan, with some caveats. The cash-strapped agency’s proposal to hire a consultant to advise it on how to make money by selling ad space has come under fire from residents and lawmakers, who are demanding City Council hearings. …

Beginning on Tuesday, even some of Manhattan’s subway platforms will not be out of reach for the clattering, jabbering, Angry Birding masses. Some straphangers will be able to make calls and go online on their smart phones at six subway stations starting Tuesday, MTA officials confirmed to amNewYork. The pilot program for AT&T and T-Mobile customers will begin along the …

“Mr. President, I respectfully urge you to push the reset button on your Administration’s approach to DOMA. Our federal government should not be presuming ill intent or moral blindness on the part of the overwhelming majority of its citizens, millions of whom have gone to the polls to directly support DOMAs in their states and have thereby endorsed marriage as …

Whackjob blogger Pamela Geller says she will sue the MTA if they don’t accept her above ad. Geller, co-founder of the American Freedom Defense Initiative, said the message is meant to counter posters in 18 subway stations calling for the end of U.S. military aid to Israel. They were paid for by the Westchester-based WESPAC Foundation and began a one-month …

In order to enjoy the same grocery sales share they have in the rest of the country, Wal-Mart would have to build 159 stores in New York City. They presently have none, a situation they are paying PR firms millions to remedy as unions and city officials continue to fight them off. According to a recent study, NYC residents spent …

Bill Gates once agin tops Forbes’ list of the nation’s richest people. The wealthiest New Yorker is Tea Party puppeteer David Koch (above), who is worth $25 billion and with his brother is tied for the fourth wealthiest person in America. Mayor Michael Bloomberg is second in New York and twelfth nationally with a worth of $19.5 billion. Almost all …

Manhattan Mini-Storage’s ads have long been famously bitchy. (One chestnut said, “New York City has six professional sports teams. Plus the Mets.”) But advertising critic Copyranter doesn’t like this latest attempt.

Do you want to be free of witchcraft and voodoo? Harlem’s Church of Jesus Christ Is Lord can help. The lady standing outside may have cast a spell on me for taking this photo today. Such a look she gave me.

Gothamist points us to an 1881 drawing in Harper’s Weekly, which predicted a Manhattan skyline not terribly unlike the one we see today.

Last night I attended the launch party for gossip legend Michael Musto’s above-titled book, where hundreds of bold-face names collided with hipsters, scenesters, and queensters all vying to get their names into large print. Where else but a Musto party would you see F-Troop octogenerian Larry Storch chatting amiably next to drag star Flotilla Debarge while samba dancers spin around …

Towleroad reports that Maggie Gallagher was spotted in the balcony of last night’s celebrity reading of the new play about Proposition 8. Andy Towle: So what could Gallagher have hoped to glean from her perch in the balcony? Perhaps she was finally enlightened last night, that her mission is flawed and hateful, that it is futile, that what she has …