-
Is Schnabel’s Palazzo Chupi in Crisis? Schay It Isn’t Scho!
Is Julian Schnabel's big, pink Palazzo Chupi in the West Village so sleepy that the doormen are giving tours to any old passerby? That and more blasphemous rumors from Sunnyside Gardens, Dumbo, and Park Slope in today's boroughs report.
Posted 09/03/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
-
Does Dumbo’s Squarehead Have a Secret Admirer?
A copycat has taken over for a famed Dumbo robber. Plus, déjà vu at Astroland, tenant grievances in the East Village, and more in our post–Labor Day boroughs briefing.
Posted 09/02/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
-
The Montauk Monster Has Competition. Sort Of.
There is a colorful beast of some sort climbing out of the East River. Plus, Harlem's eye-straining new condo, Chinatown's intra-hood Olympics smackdown, and the big-cabbage guy of Staten Island. In our Freedom Friday edition of the daily boroughs report!
Posted 08/01/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
-
Greenpoint Subdivided: Do You Live in Garbagetown or Sewagetown?
Quick, someone bandage that bleeding Lady of Mercy in the Bronx, mourn the Purchase Building in Dumbo, and scold that greedy Long Island City sweatshop! So much to do in today's boroughs report!
Posted 07/24/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
-
Can Regina Spektor Make Murray Hill Cool?
Regina Spektor moves into Murray Hill, Carroll Gardens' Ivy League hipster types strike back against last week's maudlin anti-yuppie video, and a celeb hip-hop stylist's body turns up in the Bronx. Plus, news from Red Hook, Long Island City, Dumbo, and Coney in today's boroughs roundup.
Posted 06/23/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
-
Someone Is Spending a Lot of Time Thinking About Stuyvesant Town
It's Freaky Friday! What better day for a crazy Caribbean lady in Forest Hills, a goat-slaughtering market in St. Albans, and a $200,000 game-show win for a guy from Westerleigh? (That's on Staten Island, people.)
Posted 06/20/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
-
The Golden Rule, Graffiti-Style
East Harlem's incoming big-box mall, Rockaway's unexpected turn, Gramercy's strange tenements within a condo, and even more, in today's boroughs report.
Posted 06/11/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
-
Andrea Peyser — Wait for It — Thinks Someone Is a Bonehead
That delightful harpy harshes on Dumbo, Robin Quivers leaves Staten Island for the Upper West Side, and a white Seattle woman gets stuck in Harlem and lives to tell. That and more tales of the miraculous in our daily boroughs report.
Posted 05/27/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
-
Scaffolding Already Up for Giant Waterfall Sculptures
Pesky squirrels in Astoria, a not-dead-yet beaver in the Bronx, and a baby born in the Port Authority. Furry little creatures abound in our daily boroughs report!
Posted 05/07/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
-
Park Slope Moms Terrorize the Childless
Now that's a plot for Darren Star's new show. Also Schnabel spotted near his pink palace! And a pink turtle in Billyburg, in our daily borough report.
Posted 05/06/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
-
The ‘Post’ and ‘Daily News’ Have Contrary Takes on the Future of the Atlantic Yards
Jennifer Connelly ditches the Slope, Travolta hits Dumbo, and Warhol's former porn house in the East Village. Those are all the celeb items in today's boroughs report, we promise!
Posted 05/05/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
-
You Can Still Get That Good Unsafe Feeling in Dumbo
Dumbo fights gentrification, a guy in Queens fights the parking authority, and pretty much everyone fights change in our daily roundup of neighborhood news.
Posted 03/21/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
-
Is There a Park Slope in Baghdad?
Dumbo: Last night was the first night that passersby could see Adriana Varella's giant Applied Kinetics projection installation at the foot of the Manhattan Bridge. There are no pictures yet, so go tonight and see it yourself. [DumboNYC] East Village: A funny guerilla-marketing tactic for a Black Lips show has finally made our favorite advertising blogger smile! With black lips! [Copyranter] Park Slope: After a kind of annoying string of posts on a couple of real-estate blogs about what neighborhoods are the "Park Slope"s of other cities, this blog just gets right down to business: What is the Park Slope of Iraq? [Gowanus Lounge]
Posted 03/07/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
-
Phat Tats No Longer Available in Quaint Cobble Hill
Cobble Hill: The very popular Brooklyn Tattoo Shop is leaving the hood. [Brooklyn Heights Blog] Dumbo: Two generally accepted truths debunked in one article: New York has outpriced artists, and the members of the Walentas family are a bunch of scrooges. [NYT] Fort Greene: Attention, 124 Dekalb Avenue: Spike Lee has left the building. [Brownstoner]
Posted 03/06/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
-
The G Train to Get 50 Percent Less Hateable in 2008
Bedford-Stuyvesant: Wait a minute. Is this entire building just a carefully executed, giant beer bong? [Newyorkshitty] Dumbo: This hood's waterfront is getting rezoned. What does it mean for you and your view? [DumboNYC] Long Island City: The G train might be 50 percent more useful? Stop the world, we wanna get off! [Clinton Hill Blog]
Posted 03/04/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
-
Clive Campbell Wants Slavery Reparations From Jay-Z, Of All People
Atlantic Yards: Activist Clive Campbell has filed a $5 billion suit against Bruce Ratner, Jay-Z, and Barclay's bank. He's suing for slavery reparations, because of alleged slave trade ties in the history of the bank. [NYO] Bedford-Stuyvesant: Cleaning your dog's poop is all about respect. Respecting yourself, that is. [Newyorkshitty] Dumbo: If you want your short film to play on the big screen at Brooklyn Bridge Park, now's the time to submit it to Movies With a View. No subtitles, please. [Dumbo NYC]
Posted 02/25/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
-
‘Queen of Delancey Street’ Killed in Accident
Dumbo: From the offices of "legendary" Brooklyn Paper editor (and self-encourager) Gersh Kuntzman comes news that he's auctioning off his ankle cast, signed by (self-encouraging) beep Marty Markowitz, with proceeds going to Markowitz's Camp Brooklyn. The bid's up to $41! [eBay] Jamaica: Sure, Jamaica Center may look a bit rough, but you can still haggle over prices here, and find great real-estate deals posted to trees! [Queens Crap] Lower East Side: RIP to Josephine LaPlaca, the 83-year-old "Queen of Delancey Street," who was struck dead by a car Wednesday night at the dangerous intersection of Delancey and Allen. [Gothamist]
Posted 02/01/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
-
10 Jay to Get Five More Stories
Astoria: If a park designated as a "sitting area" has nowhere to sit, is that kind of like if a tree fell in the forest in that park — if there were a forest there — and no one heard it? Is it really a sitting area at all? Or even a forest or a park? Think about it. [Queens Crap] Bushwick: Get your knives out, the Argentines are coming! Uh, your steak knives, that is, because they make great steaks. Get it? [BushwickBK] Dumbo: That landmark building at 10 Jay Street where the raves used to be held in the early aughts? Those aren't cabanas going on the roof — it's added five stories! Is it going residential? [DumboNYC]
Posted 01/23/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
-
Historic Brooklyn Navy Yard Houses Get a Stay of Execution
Brooklyn Navy Yard: The Feds have indefinitely delayed plans to tear down ten nineteenth-century houses here in order to build a supermarket. Patina before potatoes! [Brownstoner] Dumbo: The waterfront Empire Stores warehouse is so decrepit that the park surrounding it has been closed for safety, and everyone's pointing fingers over who let the Civil War–era pile languish for so long. [Brooklyn Paper via Curbed] Elmhurst: This no-frills Queens hood isn't slated to do so well in the real-estate boom, but maybe it'll fare better than expected with loving testimonials like this: "At sunset, the dirty black bricks of the six-story apartment buildings turn deep red and almost dark pink. At night, it's peaceful." Ahhh… [NYDN via Queens Crap]
Posted 01/18/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
-
After Taco Bell, Rodents Take On Cobble Hill
Clinton Hill: What? You say you weren't at the Pratt annual antique steam-whistle concert on New Year's Eve at midnight? Like, where else could you have been? At least it was captured on this YouTube video. But, dude, it's not the same thing as being there. [Clinton Hill Blog] Cobble Hill: Is that a squirrel or a rat sunning himself in the window of that shamefully derelict Kane Street walk-up? Locals are bitterly divided over the answer. People, can we all agree that it's a rodent? [Lost New York City] Dumbo: Will the new owners of an old Water Street warehouse really build a theater and host a Korean film festival in there? We'll see, kimchee. [Brooklyn Eagle via DumboNYC]
Posted 01/02/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
Advertising
Popular Topics
spring 2009, paris fashion week, politics, movies, music, sarah palin, the greatest depression, barack obama, early and often, john mccain, models, designers, slideshow, video, behind the scenes, tv, books, debates, economy, joe biden, openings, party lines, real estate, shopping, television, tina fey, early and awesome, elections, hair, neighborhood watch, vivienne westwood, art, karl lagerfeld, nightlife, reality tv, advertising, alexander mcqueen, art candy, business, campaigns, chat room, comics, comme des garcons, gossipmonger, harvey weinstein, hussein chalayan, john galliano, louis vuitton, maison martin margiela, mayor bloomberg, media, mediavore, overnights, sales, saturday night live, slideshow, sonia rykiel, sports, the greatest depression, two for eight, bill maher, bravo, cindy adams, fragrance, giambattista valli, makeup, neighborhood watch, newsfeed, park slope, shoes
Can Paterson Navigate the Troubled Economy?
Will Sulzberger's Heirs Sell the 'Times'?
How McCain Lost His Public Image
What Wall Street Will Look Like in Fall 2009
