Tag Archives: Upper East Side

Afternoon View – 100 In The Shade

At 1:45pm today it was already 100 degrees on my mostly-shaded fire escape, with record-setting temps being notched around the city, including a 106 degree reading in Central Park. Now excuse me while I try to crawl into the fridge.

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Coffee Talk

Cafe Figo, First Avenue, 1PM Linda Richman Look-A-Like: So anyway, false alarm, thank the BVM. But I told her that if she EVAH makes me a grandma before I’m 50, I’ll move down to her Nanna Marie’s in Boca so fast it’ll make her weave spin.

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Dancing As Fast As He Can

Citibank ATM vestibule, First Avenue, 8:30am MAN ON CELL: OK, fine. Fine! I’ll go without you. But you know what, Ed? No matter how much time you spend at that fucking gym, tomorrow morning when you get up you are still going to be 47 years old. You spend so much time trying to look good, nobody actually sees you.

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Yeah, Totally

Rite Aid, Second Avenue, 8am Cashier: And that comes to $10.02. Elderly Man: OK, wait I have the pennies. He empties his pocket onto the counter and a small diamond-shaped blue pill skitters towards the cashier, who quickly pushes it back towards him with a gasp. Elderly Man: That’s an ALIEVE! Cashier (expressionless): Oh. I believe you. Yeah, totally.

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Daily Grumble

All morning I’ve been smelling what I thought was baking bread, but it turns out it’s just my neighbors burning their Passover chametz in a metal garbage can on their fire escape. Gothamist reports that the FDNY is getting buried with calls about “rubbish fires” all over Williamsburg and Borough Park. Welcome to NYC, noobs! In other Holy Week news, …

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Morning View – Jackhammer Hell

The co-ops behind my apartment building are removing several thousand square feet of concrete patio in order to put in a community garden, probably so they can feed themselves during the coming End Times. So I’ve got a month of 30-feet-away multiple all-day jackhammering coming. I am rather cranky about this.

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Winter Wonderland

February 2010 was the snowiest month in the history of NYC. A record-breaking winter storm dumped more than 20 inches of snow on the city Friday, closing schools and offices, grounding flights and cutting off power to thousands of homes. By the afternoon, 20.8 inches had fallen in Central Park, for a monthly total of 36.9 – more than 3 …

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Afternoon View – Third Avenue

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Afternoon View – My Street

Things are still in the “isn’t this pretty!” stage.

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The Closer

Duane Reade, 1st Avenue, 8:30am Hipster Dude 1: And then she said I was emotionally crippled, that my family is all freaks, that I’m going nowhere in my job, that I’m lazy, that I’ve got bad taste. She just went on and on. Hipster Dude 2: What did you say? Hipster Dude 1: I told her she’s fat. Hipster Dude …

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Daily Grumble

In full realization of how very cliched this post is, I must nevertheless denounce the Sales Prevention Team at the Best Buy on East 86th Street for the most aggravating purchase experience I’ve ever had. I can totally say without hyperbole that that place is a million times worse than Hitler. As I was told, because of “the shrink”, one …

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True In Their World, True In Ours

Cafe Figo, First Avenue, 2pm Hipster Chick 1: Anyway, it starts at 11. Wanna go? You can be my plus one. Hipster Chick 2: I’m sick of being everybody’s plus one. When do I get my name on the list? Hipster Chick 1: Blowing the promoter always helps.

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Morning View – Second & 70th

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Morning View – Fifth & East 62nd

Note the pretty black snow.

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Photo Of The Day – UES Big Dig

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 …

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Afternoon View – My Building On Fire

So I came home from moderating a panel at the LGBT Center today and found my block jammed with fire engines, ladder trucks, and couple of ambulances. My building. On fire. Just as I got near the front of my building, Dr. Jeff came sprinting up from his place two blocks away. Jerry, my houseguest, had just called him to …

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I Almost Became A Real New Yorker

My late aunt used to say that you weren’t a real New Yorker until you saw a dead body. Therefore I almost earned my Gothamite stripes last night when a smiling young man climbed down onto the subway tracks at 68th Street, then started taking off his clothes while walking back and forth on the wooden cover over the third …

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UES Gay Bashing Spree Continues, AVP Issues Community Alert

The NYC Anti-Violence Project has issued a community alert (PDF) after a third Upper East Side gay bashing in one week by what appears to be the same group of young men who committed the attack I reported on Monday. The victim in that attack provided the NYPD with the sketch (left) of one of the men involved in his …

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Brutal Gay Bashing On Upper East Side

The NYC Anti-Violence Project is investigating the case of a gay man who was viciously beaten yesterday by a group of men who called him a “faggot.” The incident happened on the usually sedate Upper East Side. The Village Voice reports: Joe Holladay, in town on business, was jumped and beaten Saturday morning by a group of men who called …

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A Little Fussy, But It Would Do

The late Brooke Astor’s Park Avenue apartment has just gone on sale for $46M. Six terraces, fourteen rooms, including four for the maids. Oh, and don’t worry about a mortgage, it’s 100% down. Conveniently located several blocks and one universe from my apartment.

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