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Posted 06/09/09 in Vulture

Nastanovich

Pavement Fan Wins Date With Ikea (and Bob Nastanovich)

Blessedly, there is video.

Posted 09/03/08 in Grub Street

Mediavore

Starbucks to Offer Healthy Breakfast; a Red Hook Revival

Britain has its own locavore movement, a review of the Slow Food Nation conference, and more, in our morning news roundup.

Posted 08/27/08 in Grub Street

NewsFeed

Thor Gives BJ’s to Red Hook Residents

Thor Gives BJ’s to Red Hook Residents

Welcome to the wonderful world of bulk.

Posted 08/11/08 in Daily Intel

Company Town

Billionaires Have Bad Days, Too

Billionaires Have Bad Days, Too

Carl Icahn is struggling with various projects, Sharon Waxman becomes the latest media lady to start a news-aggregation Website, and — it's official! — most City Council members pay less rent than you do, in our daily roundup of finance, media, real-estate and entertainment news.

Posted 07/25/08 in Daily Intel

Vu.

‘Real World’ Still Fishing Around Red Hook

‘Real World’ Still Fishing Around Red Hook

Turns out the cast members won't be living on Pier 41 — but they'll still be right near Ikea!

Posted 07/08/08 in Daily Intel

Neighborhood Watch

Ikea Buses for All — Even Recovering Heroin Addicts!

Ikea Buses for All — Even Recovering Heroin Addicts!

Stuy Town laundry thieves are being surveilled, Carroll Gardens raccoon cheerleaders speak out, Ikea bus riders forego affordable design for methadone, and much more, in our 'Ruby Tuesday' boroughs roundup.

Posted 06/27/08 in Daily Intel

Neighborhood Watch

Would You Want to Live in the Same Building As the Cast of ‘The Real World’?

Would You Want to Live in the Same Building As the Cast of ‘The Real World’?

The Belltel lofts marketing plan sputters, things get ugly in Forest Hills, and folks are backed up in Red Hook. That and more in our boroughs-report week-capper.

Posted 06/23/08 in Daily Intel

Neighborhood Watch

Can Regina Spektor Make Murray Hill Cool?

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 06/19/08 in Daily Intel

Neighborhood Watch

The G Train: Helping Greenpoint Keep It Real

The G Train: Helping Greenpoint Keep It Real

They're not too gentrified in Greenpoint to transcend the crummy G train, not too Ikea-fied in Red Hook to alienate Santogold, and not too cranky in Brooklyn Heights to bitch about smaller OJ cartons. So we're not too proud to say this: that and more in today's boroughs report!

Posted 06/18/08 in Daily Intel

Neighborhood Watch

Tom Wolfe and Aby Rosen Continue to Get on Each Other’s Nerves

Tom Wolfe and Aby Rosen Continue to Get on Each Other’s Nerves

The writer disses Norman Foster on the Upper East Side, erotic yet "tender" art is nixed in the South Bronx, and more Ikea mania, in our hump-day boroughs report.

Posted 06/17/08 in Daily Intel

Intel

Swedish Fishing: The Wait for the Red Hook Ikea Opening

Swedish Fishing: The Wait for the Red Hook Ikea Opening

We talked to those hardy souls who will wait in line for anything — even a discount Scandanavian sofa.

Posted 05/28/08 in Daily Intel

In Other News

‘The View’ Darkly Celebrates Red Hook Ikea

‘The View’ Darkly Celebrates Red Hook Ikea

On this morning's show, everyone in the audience got free $200 gift cards — but the audience didn't seem thrilled. And Whoopi was downright ominous: "Don't forget, you'll be putting it together, too."

Posted 04/16/08 in Daily Intel

Company Town

Good-bye ‘Real Housewives of New York,’ Hello ‘Real Housewives of New Jersey’!

Not enough 'Times' newsroom workers are taking the buyouts, BlackBerrys are outlawed at a law firm, and Ikea is finally arriving.

Posted 09/21/07 in Daily Intel

Party Lines

Amy Sedaris Kills Roaches With Her Bare Hands

Posted 01/12/07 in Daily Intel

The Morning Line

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