Tag Archives: NYC

Squeezed by fuel costs, airlines are cutting nonstop service between New York and 25 cities. [N]onstop flights between New York City and 25 other cities – including upstate Binghamton and Tucson – will disappear. Service to another 55 cities will be cut, according to Crain’s New York Business. “We’re losing service to a lot of cities,” Rick Seaney, chief executive …

Purple Drank, every gangsta rapper’s favorite cough syrup-laden grape drink, is now on sale in NYC. Only without the actual cough syrup. Get ready to “slow your roll” New York; the mass-produced version of “Purple Drank” will hit shelves in Manhattan and the Bronx this week. According to Wikipedia, the homemade version of the beverage is “a recreational drug popular …

Crunch Gym, Lafayette Street, Tuesday 4pm Steroided Meathead: Your hands are on the bar wrong. Put them here and here. Angertwink: If I wanted help from you, I’d buy it from you and then inject it. (Provided by Paul)

Protests continue daily at the Chinese Consulate on the West Side Highway at 42th Street, where at night the Free Tibet crowd has been projecting a giant Tibetan flag and other images onto the bare face of the building. After the protesters posted a video of their projection of the Olympic rings turning into handcuffs, the International Olympic Committee lodged …

Congratulations go out to our dear friends Mark Superdaddy Kane and Tim McSweeney, who slipped off to Provincetown last week and got married after thirteen years of living in sin. While we all feel a tiny bit cheated that we didn’t get to get drunk and cry over exchanged e e cummings poems or whatever, what Mark and Tim did …

And she was eat’n, she was eat’n. Been singing this all morning. Love the New York “n”. What’s that called, linguistically? I missed this clip when it came out last week, but it’s already gotten 400K hits on YouTube. Our dear Father Tony is a hooge fan of gay rapper Cazwell. Who’s the drag queen playing Beyonce?

To misquote Bananarama, it’s a cool summer. Other than that miserable but short-lived heatwave last month, NYC has had quite the moderate season. This morning the news noted that we’ve only had 11 days over 90 degrees, but usually average about twice that. Seems like the weather patterns have flattened here for the last couple of years, very little snow, …

Wednesday, 8:40am, 6 train platform Chick 1: Did you see how he was the only one at the meeting who noticed my bangs? Chick 2: Gay. Chick 1: Oh, totally.

Art rocker David Byrne has designed nine temporary bike racks which have been installed around town as part of the Summer Streets program I’ve been raving about. The dollar sign is naturally on Wall Street, the high heel is in front of Bergdorf’s, and the reclining woman is in Times Square, although today’s tourists may not get the reference. The …

I found this neat shot over at Gothamist. Yesterday was SEAPaddle NYC, a 28-mile surfboard paddle around Manhattan to raise money for autism.

Seven of us did another all day (seven hours!) bike ride yesterday, enjoying the second week of Manhattan’s fantastic Summer Streets program. Above are Craig, Farmboy C, Little David, Chris, Dr. Jeff, and Father Tony posing on the pier at Brooklyn Bridge Park. We started up at East 69th where we found the downtown route on Park Avenue at least …

It’s dark and scary outside. Tornado warnings for most of the city. It can happen here, there was a tornado in Brooklyn last year.

OK, this is confusing. Remember this time last year when the New York Fire Department swore they’d never do another calendar after one of their firefighters was found have appeared in an episode of Guys Gone Wild? Even though the calendar raised over $150K for fire education and safety, showing your substantial fire hose was apparently verboten. Well, there is …

NYC gay dad Joshua Glazer was reunited with his son in Israel yesterday. Last week Glazer’s husband fled to Israel with their adopted son in what was called the first ever case of international abduction by a married gay parent. Glazer’s partner, Eric Hyett, had claimed that Glazer has been emotionally abusive. A “removal team” made up of Israeli law …

Gas prices have sent subway ridership surging, and with those extra people comes extra litter, and therefore, extra rats. And according to amNY, the latest swarm doesn’t appear much bothered by human presence. “People have seen them sitting on benches,” said Andrew Albert, an MTA board member and chair of the NYC Transit Riders Council, of the underground rodent problem. …

Five years ago today at 4:10PM, New York City lost power for 30 hours. After some mild panic in Midtown that the situation was terrorism-related, I went home to my then-apartment on Bleecker Street where my roommate and I sat on the fire escape and read by his leftover menorah candles. Days later we learned that apparently we were the …

Performance artist Mini Karimi wants help: On September 6th, I am staging a large performance art piece that requires 6-8 hundred people recreating the parade scene from Ferris Bueller at the Deitch Art Parade in Soho. I am recruiting secret agents in the audience of the parade to mimic the extras in the movie as my Ferris float approaches. In …

Tourism to NYC isn’t suffering too much in this economy, we’re seeing just a slight dip in Broadway sales. But holy cow, room rates are averaging $350/night. In May the average cost of a hotel room in New York climbed to $350 a night from $300 in May 2007, according to figures released yesterday by the official marketing and tourism …

This Friday, August 15th, is the deadline to register for New York’s September 9th primary. The NYC Gay & Lesbian Community Center has a goal of registering 2000 new LGBT voters by then. You can register to vote online via their site. All of New York’s 29 seats in the House of Representatives are in contention, as are all 436 …