Tag Archives: NYC

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 …

The eternally cash-strapped MTA has announced a couple of proposed changes that won’t find many fans. Millions of straphangers would be hit with a $1 surcharge when they get a new MetroCard from a vending machine instead of refilling an old one under one of the MTA’s leading fare-hike and revenue-raising plans, The Post has learned. “It would provide an …

After her address at the United Nations General Assembly yesterday, Queen Elizabeth II endured the record-breaking heat to lay a wreath at Ground Zero. The New York Times gushes: The small, white-haired monarch, wearing a flowered suit and white gloves, and with an elegant silk hat on her head, stepped out of her car just past 5:10 p.m., in the …

A woman was bitten by a presumably rabid raccoon in Central Park and today she tells New York Magazine her story. I live on the Upper East Side. I was doing a little shopping on the Upper West Side and when I was done, decided to walk back through the park. But it was so gorgeous out, I stopped to …

Devo-esque gay favorites Hot Chip will play Central Park’s Summerstage on August 4th. I was a little late getting to the Hot Chip party, but 2008’s Ready For The Floor did it for me. You’re my number one guy!

The just-crowned Miss New York is a winner in a more ways than one. Miss New York 2010, Claire Buffie, is an outspoken advocate of human rights, opening the dialogue about equality amongst youth, teens and adults alike with her platform “Straight for Equality: Let’s Talk.” The issues of gay rights make up the civil rights movement of our generation …

Days after two NYC clothing retailers temporarily closed due to bedbug infestations, the New York Daily News quotes city exterminators who say they’ve recently been called out to treat movie theaters for the bloodsuckers. Experts warned Sunday that cushy theater seats pose a far bigger bedbug threat than racks in clothing stores – despite last week’s news of bedbug infestations …

Record energy demands may cause blackouts or brownouts around NYC today and Con Ed is asking folks to unplug nonessential electronics, set their A/C at 78 degrees or higher, and avoid using dishwashers and washing machines. Small scattered power outages are already being seen in some parts of the city. Emergency cooling centers for people without A/C are open in …

One day after their Soho flagship Hollister store was shut down due to a massive infestation of bedbugs, today Abercrombie & Fitch has closed their South Street Seaport location for the same reason. Gothamist again has the story. According to an Abercrombie & Fitch spokesperson, the store was closed to “deal with a similar problem” as Hollister’s, i.e. the parasite …

New York City’s neverending battle with bedbugs has gone retail. Via Gothamist: Hollister, the teen-oriented clothing store that’s a subsidiary of Abercrombie & Fitch, was shut down yesterday due to what one employee described as “a massive bedbug outbreak” at the four-story SoHo flagship location. And according to our source, who spoke on condition of anonymity so that he/she wouldn’t …

The MTA has caved to pressure from Brooklyn’s Hasidic Jews and yanked the ad campaign from a vodka company that features a woman’s butt in a bikini. An MTA rep tells Gothamist: “At the request of community leaders, the Georgi vodka ads were removed from buses that are likely to serve Brooklyn’s Hasidic neighborhoods. It has been our longstanding practice, …

Lots more Pride-related Missed Connections at This Is FYF. (Tipped by JMG reader Foxy)

Justice was at last served yesterday in the hate crime murder retrial of Keith Phoenix (left), who in 2008 beat Ecuadorean immigrant Jose Sucuzhanay to death with a metal baseball bat as he screamed anti-gay and anti-Hispanic epithets. Last month a mistrial was declared when jurors could not agree on convicting Phoenix of murder or manslaughter. The second trial’s jury …

Oh what a difference Section Two makes, as yesterday we crossed the finish line at 2:30pm, four hours earlier than last year. At times we moved so quickly it felt like a Pride run, so kudos to the volunteers and organizers at Heritage of Pride. As is our tradition, near the end of the route we posed for the above …

New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan banned a gay Catholic group from marching in the NYC Pride parade with the name of their church on their banner, forcing the group to march with the banner reversed. The gay Catholics lined up directly behind our group, the NYC Gay Bloggers, and one church member told Father Tony that Dolan’s action inadvertently helped …

It was June 27th, 1969. The day that the fags, dykes, and queens of New York City finally said “Enough!” For some historical perspective, I’m posting the story that the New York Daily News ran about the Stonewall Riots. Note how the story drips with condescension and ridicule. We’ve come a long, long way in 41 years and we’ve still …

Thursday night Father Tony and I attended the world premiere of Florent: Queen Of The Meat Market, David Sigal’s documentary of the of famed Meatpacking District restaurant, its flamboyant owner Florent Morellet, and the incredible scenes staged almost nightly over the 25 years that NYC’s night creatures inhabited the place. On hand at the premiere was a who’s who of …

Folks stood in the hot summer NYC sun for a long as six hours to get their iPhone 4 today, its second day of release. It kills me how almost everybody in the line is staring into the perfectly good iPhones they already own. Children of the corrrrrrrrn.