The ‘Daily News’ Is Not an Extraordinary Conglomeration of Multi-Functional PersonnelIt’s no secret that enterprising Webtrepreneurs often buy Web addresses just a few characters away from popular ones, counting on typos to deliver you to their penis-enlargement pitches or AdSense agglomerations. But, as we discovered this morning, those seeking the Website for the New York Daily News, which is at www.nydailynews.com, should make especially sure to get the full address in. A sleepily typed www.nydaily.com took us not to our Hometown Paper but to 123 Escorts, which offers Kim (“Just arrived in town!”) and Evian (“Here for a short time!”) among its “extraordinary conglomeration of bright, amiable, multi-functional personnel.” It’s not that we think such things will offend News readers’ delicate sensibilities. We’re just concerned they won’t be able to handle the porn site’s vocabulary.
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Bloomberg Pimps, in BrooklynAnother day in New York, another presumably doomed campaign against Bloombergian gentrification. This time it’s in Red Hook, where residents, business owners, and local electeds say Mayor Mike is “pimping” their waterfront. Seems there’s a plan to turn the local piers into a fenced-off world of restaurants, condos, and family-friendly attractions, including, possibly, two salvaged historic ships for tourists to visit — what the Brooklyn Papers is calling a “Disneyesque theme park.” Right now those piers host the city’s last operational cargo port, run by American Stevedoring, whose director of operations theorizes that the plan — which would evict the company from the city-owned property is just part of a scheme to get union jobs out of New York City. But we most like this quote from a Red Hook resident: “The history of maritime trade is as old as prostitution,” he told the Papers, “and it looks like the maritime trades are about to be prostituted.” Of course, given the new Fairway, at least they’re high-priced whores.
Mickey Mouse Plan [Brooklyn Papers]