Tag Archives: NYC

Daily Show co-creator (and JMG reader) Lizz Winstead rips into Phyliss Schlafly. Lizz appears at Comix NY tomorrow night (Thursday) at 8pm. Get tickets here.

After weeks of rumors, today the New York Times confirms that Conde Nast is ready to ink a deal to move its fleet of aspirational magazines and their accompanying army of snooty clackers away from their present midtown location and into One World Trade Center. Where they will be miles away from anything remotely hip! Oh noes! The deal to …

By a 9-0 vote, moments ago the New York City Landmarks Preservation Committee refused to grant landmark status to the former Burlington Coat Factory building where an Islamic group plans to build a 13-story mosque and welcome center. The vote clears the way for the developer the remove the building and proceed. The site is two blocks away from Ground …

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Courtesy of The Watsons, today’s Swag Tuesday booty is four tickets to see the WNBA’s New York Liberty at Madison Square Garden. The New York Liberty are bringing sports, entertainment and excitement to The World’s Most Famous Arena, Madison Square Garden, all summer long. With All-Star Cappie Pondexter averaging more than 20 points a game, the Liberty are poised to …

If you are in NYC on Thursday, August 5th, please consider joining me, Jeremy Hooper, and Pam Spaulding at Therapy in Hell’s Kitchen as we co-host a special netroots fundraiser for U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand. The event runs 6pm-9pm with a $20 donation. Facebook event page here. And please join Out For Kirsten’s Facebook page. Longtime readers will recall that …

You might know NYC’s Naked Highway from their remixes for Lady Gaga, The Presets, and Rihanna. The band says this video is their tribute to New Order’s Round And Round. I see several regular JMG readers in this clip!

The real life Soup Nazi of Seinfeld fame is reopening his original store in Hell’s Kitchen today, six years after the last of his several Manhattan locations closed. All the famously stringent rules will be enforced: Have your money ready, step to the left, no unnecessary talking. I used to patronize the location at 42nd and Fifth, where a tiny …

After closing them in March for smoking ban violations, NYC’s Health Department will allow M2 Ultra Lounge to reopen. The Chelsea hotspot must pay $7,500 in fines and submit a plan to the city detailing how it will stop patrons from lighting up. It was one of several clubs busted in a Health Department undercover sting in January. Undercover inspectors …

Gothamist tips us to this cool clip of the giant tunnel-boring machine breaking through the final wall of rock to extend the 7 train out to 11th Avenue. Very sci-fi. You have to wade through a minute of Bloomberg’s blah blah blah first.

NBC and CBS have refused to air the GOP’s Kill The Ground Zero Mosque ad. Politico reports: In her letter rejecting the spot, NBC Universal advertising standards manager Jennifer Riley wrote: “An ad questioning the wisdom of building a mosque at ground zero would meet our issues of public controversy advertising criteria. However, this ad which ambiguously defines ‘they’ as …

At a meeting attended by state reps, city council members, and the NYPD, yesterday two gay men spoke out about about being the victims of an anti-gay assault at a Staten Island restaurant. Luis Vieira, 47, and his partner, Richard Vieira, 39, addressed a meeting organized by the Staten Island LGBT Center, Tompkinsville, in response to the brutal beating to …

The National Republican Trust PAC has created the below clip as part of their campaign to thwart the building of a mosque and Islamic welcome center near Ground Zero in Manhattan. A hearing held yesterday on the issue devolved into shouting, slurs, and the removal of some protesters.

The WBNA’s New York Liberty have been posting a YouTube series on NYC etiquette. This one’s about evil taxi stealers. (If only all cab thieves were so cute.) The last time I gave a cab thief a piece of my mind, her ginormous boyfriend materialized from the shadows to show me his switchblade. True story. West 28th Street.

Mercurial New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner died of a heart attack this morning in Florida at the age of 80. Since Steinbrenner bought the team in 1973, the Yankees have won eleven pennants and seven World Series. He retired from day to day operations in 2006, handing over the business to his two sons. Steinbrenner is widely credited as …

Seven NYC restaurants have signed onto a delivery service that will find you anywhere in Central Park via an iPhone GPS app. A new iPhone application for food delivery to the Manhattan oasis debuted Saturday, with Sheep Meadow sunbathers free to order a slice and Great Lawn Frisbee tossers liberated to call for chow mein. The app comes with a …

Manhattan borough president Scott Stringer and his fiance will marry in Connecticut in protest of New York’s unfair marriage law. After five decades of municipal fidelity, Mr. Stringer is refusing to do something rather momentous in the city of his birth: marry. He and his fiancée, Elyse Buxbaum, have decided to wed in Connecticut this year in what they described …