Tag Archives: NYC

Streetsblog notes that as well as the new law requiring NYC office buildings to allow workers to bring their bicycles inside, there’s a new law requiring parking garages to offer a specific number of bicycle parking spaces relative to their car capacities. As you can see, bike rates ain’t cheap. From Gothamist: BicyclesOnly, the Flickr user who took this shot, …

I think that will be some kind of record, if it comes true. We’ve had relatively little snow for so long, I haven’t bothered to get new snow boots. A little late, now.

Forecasters are predicting at least ten non-AOL inches of snow for most of the NYC area tomorrow, beginning at 7am, with Long Island under a “blizzard watch.” If you’d planned on doing some last minute shopping, better break out the skis. Otherwise, stock up on the essentials tonight and plan for a long cozy weekend on the couch. I’ll try …

Walgreens, Upper East Side, 7PM Female Voice On Intercom: Mary Richards, your order is ready for pickup at the pharmacy. Mary Richards. Clearly Gay Male Voice On Intercom: Mr. Graaaaant, your order is ready at the pharmacy. Mr. Graaaaaant.

Last night at the Ali Forney Center’s holiday party, Manhattan bon vivant Mike Diamond tipped me to his clip of the Hanukkah Hairy party at the East Village’s Eastern Bloc bar (which is co-owned by Anderson Cooper’s boyfriend.) You’ll see a few JMG regulars in the video.

The numbers for the new year arrived in Times Square yesterday via pedicab in preparation for the ball drop two weeks from today. You can pose for photos with One and Oh in front of 1540 Broadway for the next week. (Via – Gothamist)

That’s a headline I wasn’t expecting to write today.

This morning NY Gov. David Paterson appeared at the NYC LGBT Community Center to sign an executive order banning discrimination against transgender citizens in all state agencies. This order affects public employees only as New York is not one of the 12 states with full transgender protections. The NGLTF thanks our always supportive governor: “New York and the rest of …

The food at the street meat truck in midtown at 53rd and Sixth is so famously good that you’ll find a block-long line of hipsters and tourists there at any hour. It’s so great, in fact, that it’s worth stabbing somebody to death when they cut in line. The “Gyro Line Cut” trial is finally underway. I’m just surprised this …

Upset about a pending tax on cosmetic surgery, plastic surgeons and office temps saving up for a boob job protested in Times Square this weekend. Don’t tax our ta tas! That was the word Sunday from New York women outraged over a Washington proposal to add a 5% tax on all elective cosmetic surgery – everything from boob jobs to …

Mayor Bloomberg’s office is getting local heat and national press for the below television campaign to convince New Yorkers to drink less soda. It’s really really disgusting. You have been warned.

“Thank you contacting me regarding same sex marriage. While I continue to support civil unions for gay and lesbian couples, I remain opposed to same-sex marriage. I believe that marriage is between one man and one woman. In the months leading up to the vote, I heard frequently from constituents on both sides of the debate, and I believe my …

Longtime AIDS activist and former NYC human rights commissioner Dennis deLeon died in Manhattan today at age 61. He was one of the first city officials to disclose that he was HIV+. The cause was heart failure, said Bruce Kiernan, Mr. deLeon’s companion for 32 years. Mr. deLeon learned he was H.I.V.-positive in 1986 and had grown weaker in recent …

Work on the Second Avenue subway line continues, even in the face of “doomsday” MTA service cuts, which may include ending free rides for the city’s public school students. (An excellent way to put an end to those annoyingly rising attendance rates.) The shot above was taken at 91st street, which will be the launching point for the massive tunnel-boring …

NY Gov. David Paterson will appear at the NYC LGBT Community Center on Wednesday morning to announce a “major transgender rights policy.” We’ve got a special treat for all of our friends in the New York City area. And we’re pretty sure that the rest of you will like it, too. On Wednesday, December 16, New York State Governor David …

For their latest “mission,” Improv Everywhere had a 13-member handbell choir descend on a unsuspecting Salvation Army bell-ringer for some uninvited accompaniment.

I almost blogged about a New York Post story last week about a 175 square foot apartment, which they claimed might be NYC’s tiniest. But the Post has found something much, much smaller. When freelance event planner Eddie Rabon talks about his itty-bitty pad — just one square foot larger than a Rikers Island jail cell — the excitement is …

I’ve been on countless destination-less excursions around NYC with my beloved Farmboyz, during which my camera is drawn to historic or inelegant architecture and Father Tony’s to eccentric characters. But Tony’s husband is usually a block behind us, crouched with his camera over the pattern in a sewer grate, or climbing onto a pile of rubble to get that perfect …

It’s actually pretty good, despite.