Tag Archives: Manhattan

Follow WTC Progress for some nut-shriveling photos of steelworkers walking the beams at a thousand feet up.

Today in Manhattan: Gay flash mob at JC Penney. I’ll be there! Facebook event page.

It may or may not be a leading sign of economic recovery, but rents in Manhattan are surging back to their all-time high. Manhattan apartment rents continued to soar through the roof in January and are now getting close to hitting historic highs. The average price of a rental apartment was a whopping $3,352, up 5% compared with January, 2011, …

Plain bagel and small coffee: $1.50.

It’s been decades since ticker-tape went the way of the rotary phone, but that’s what they’re calling tomorrow’s Manhattan celebration for the Giants. But good luck getting anywhere within sight of the players as millions are expected to descend on the Canyon Of Heroes. New York City will be hosting a ticker-tape parade and City Hall ceremony for Super Bowl …

An old school disco t-dance at the old school t-dance time. That’s almost revolutionary for Manhattan. The promoter also brings us the fantastic Trippin’ parties that I love so. XL’s grand opening is Friday. It’s the first large new exclusively gay club for NYC in years.

Remember when I mentioned that former Citigroup CEO Sanford Weill was selling his apartment for $88M? He found a taker. Now comes news that Ekaterina Rybolovleva, the 22-year-old daughter of Russian billionaire Dmitriy Rybolovlev, is buying the condominium. Rybolovleva is currently studying at an undisclosed U.S. university and plans to stay in the apartment when visiting New York. According to …

Apartments in a new Manhattan high-rise come with what are arguably the world’s most expensive parking spots. Because the building has a dedicated car elevator that transports your vehicle up to an enclosed space outside your front door. An equivalent amount of floor space in that building would sell for about $800,000. Hit the link for more and for a …

Blue lines are inbound, red lines are outbound. Manhattan is currently getting lots of folks from Southern California. And we’re sending high numbers to South Florida. (That’s nothing new.) Forbes has an interactive map with all U.S. counties.

You may recognize the above Manhattan hotspot as one of Miranda Priestly’s preferred eateries in The Devil Wears Prada. This week Smith & Wollensky and several other tony NYC restaurants are in the news after some of their wait staff were busted for skimming the black Amex cards of their zillionaire clientele. High-tech “skimmers” — hard to detect because they …

Acting upon the orders of Mayor Bloomberg, hundreds of police officers raided Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park in a pre-dawn raid today. At least 75 Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested as they were rousted from their tents and sleeping bags. The mayor’s office sent out a message on Twitter at 1:19 a.m. saying: “Occupants of Zuccotti should temporarily leave and remove …

After 54 days, the protesters in Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park finally have potties. Despite denials of permits by the City, Occupy Wall Street participants have worked diligently with the help of local officials to secure 24/7 access to toilets within reasonable distance of Liberty Square. Starting today, OWS is providing access to porta-potties in a private, well-lit space with 24-hour security, …

After last night’s book launch in Tribeca, I wandered over to Zuccotti Park to check in on the OWS folks. Aside from the usual clingers-on who ruin any decent event (Hari Krishnas, Lyndon LaRouchers, Truthers, etc), some nutsos are marching around telling people that the National Security Agency is sending in poisoned pizza. OK!

As part of an ill-conceived art installation, last weekend New Yorkers saw the words “LAST CHANCE” written in smoke over Manhattan, sending thousands of worried residents to Twitter. NYC Councilman Peter Vallone is furious, but the group behind the idea is defending it. “We did not intend for the artwork to be alarming in any way,” Friends of the High …

Virtual Tourist has named Bryant Park’s restroom as the “world’s #1 public toilet.” I’ve been in there, it IS nice. “Who would have thought that a loo in the middle of such a dirty, noisy, frenetic city would have classical music, fresh flowers, and even an attendant! Visitors report that it’s also spotlessly clean.”

Thousands marched through lower Manhattan yesterday at Slutwalk 2011, an event meant to encourage women to report rape and to denounce “slut shaming.” The walk got its start in Toronto after a local cop told women to stop “dressing like they want to be raped.” A similar thought was voiced just this week by Brooklyn police who are seeking a …

The #OccupyWallStreet protests continued to grow in size yesterday as the NYPD arrested 700 in a massive blockade attempt at the Brooklyn Bridge. The police said it was the marchers’ choice that led to the enforcement action. “Protesters who used the Brooklyn Bridge walkway were not arrested,” Paul J. Browne, the chief spokesman for the New York Police Department, said. …

Much like the GOP likes to characterize anything from the Democrats as “San Francisco values,” NOM has begun calling the marriage equality movement “the Manhattan conspiracy.” Because you know what’s in Manhattan? Jews, dirty queers and illegal brown people! Gay-marriage advocates from Bloomberg to Tim Gill to Ken Mehlman look across the pond and see that the party of Margaret …