Artist Who Protested Fancy New Condos on Bond Street Just Bought One
Chuck Close keeps it superreal.
Posted 09/03/08 in Daily Intel
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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 09/02/08 in Daily Intel
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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 08/21/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
South Slope Gets Its Own Tower of Toys
A ‘Retirement Home for Well-Loved Stuffies’ (not scruffles, mind you) has taken up residence near a tree in this hood. Plus, everything else in our daily borough roundup!
Posted 08/18/08 in Daily Intel
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Soho Knows ‘Rod Stewart Loves the Hamptons’
A rogue graffiti artist really wants you to believe that the aging rocker really has a thing for the East End. And for palm trees. Plus, pandas in Union Square, a ‘Gossip Girl’ spat, and more in our daily borough report.
Posted 08/08/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Now Brooklyn Heights Is Climbing Aboard the Ikea Whine Wagon
The Wonder Wheel is 88! On 8/8/08! Whee! Climb aboard the daily boroughs report and drink in the view!
Posted 08/06/08 in Daily Intel
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Punk Celebration in Tompkins Square Park Cited — Shockingly — for Noise Violation
Tribeca's ritzy rooftops, Howard Beach's sacred litter, the East Village's decibel-dueling bands, and Brooklyn Heights' unsolved stab death: all in today's nabes report, which hits four outta five boroughs!
Posted 08/05/08 in Daily Intel
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Joshua Kushner: Jared 2.0?
Jared Kushner's developer bro rocks the East Village shul crowd, the waterfalls installation is killing the trees at River Café, barges are rotting in Jamaica Bay, and scruffle venue Studio B in Greenpoint is shuttered. In today's hood roundup!
Posted 08/04/08 in Daily Intel
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Accidents Happen … Even Within View of the Shake Shack
Hapless poopers in Madison Square Park? Porn kings threatening comedy kings in Times Square? Radicals burning good money in the East Village? The links in today's boroughs report must be clicked to be believed!
Posted 08/01/08 in Daily Intel
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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 07/30/08 in Daily Intel
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Yuppies Discouraged From Partying in Tompkins Square Park
Plus plaster nearly falling on East Harlem babies before their souls are insured and a cure for killer staph in the Gowanus Canal. Why wait? Click through today's boroughs report!
Posted 07/28/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Astor Place to Get Slightly Less Life-Threatening
Scruffles are playing in the streets in Jackson Heights. Gays are scared for their Vespas in Chelsea. Some other group of people is turning in its Uzis in Clinton Hill. And everybody is reading our daily boroughs report.
Posted 07/23/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Red Hook Residents Already Groaning Over ‘Real World’ Invasion
The disingenuous denizens of Red Hook, the doomed views of the West 15th Street co-op dwellers, and the junk food–craving office gals of Long Island City, all wrapped up into our daily boroughs report like the contents of a vegan burrito!
Posted 07/21/08 in Daily Intel
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What — or Who — Pooped in the Prospect Park Sandbox?
A mystery poop enrages habitués of a Prospect Park sandbox, the "Pride of Spanish Harlem" becomes its shame, and a very strange video emerges from a Bushwick barbecue. That and more in today's boroughs roundup.
Posted 07/14/08 in Daily Intel
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Michel Gondry Moves to Historic East Williamsburg Block
You can find libido-enhancing maca in Jackson Heights, aspects of Frenchness in Boerum Hill and, speaking of French things, possibly filmmaker Michel Gondry in East Williamsburg. That and more in our head-choppingly wacky Bastille Day boroughs report.
Posted 07/11/08 in Daily Intel
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Cool Nuns Will Build Houses for Environment, Old People
Generous nuns heed the earth in Bedford Park, an anti-Greek wind blows in the East Village, and sulfurous yet minty odor pervades Long Island City, all in the final boroughs roundup of this awesomely sunny July week!
Posted 07/03/08 in Daily Intel
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Who Eats Hot Wings at 8:30 in the Morning?
Apparently, East Villagers do. That, and dish from Long Island City, Harlem, and Red Hook, in our daily neighborhood roundup.
Posted 06/20/08 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 06/17/08 in Daily Intel
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Carroll Gardens: There Are Still Real Italians There
Will your relationship survive Red Hook's new Ikea? Will Carroll Gardens old-timers continue to make-a da pizza? Will the Upper West Side open-house thieves cop a plea deal? More questions and even fewer answers in today's borough report.
Posted 06/16/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Heather Mills Is Moving to the West Village
Paul McCartney's ex drops some of his dime on a New York pad, well-meaning yuppie scum set up shop in the East Village, Enrique Norten gets a second chance in downtown Brooklyn, and more, in this week's kickoff to our daily boroughs wrap-up!
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