For those who just can't resist leaving their $1,000+ laptops unattended while they smoke or pee (who does this?), there's now a handy camouflage to fool thieves. [LH]
"French language bookstore Librairie de France--a Rockefeller Center destination for 74 years--is closing shop after its rent threatened to triple to an astonishing $1 million a year." [NYDN]
Discovering a last remnant of the old Ziegfeld theater. [HP]
A Beaux-Arts landmark is getting topped with a glassy sliver of a tumor. [EVG]
Without Internet service underground, people still read on the subway. City Room asks for your MTA reading list. [CR]
Mike Albo visits old-school, cost-conscious Syms and finds "my regard for the suit was re-attuned. Instead of a symbol of status, I began to see it as ordinary masculine work wear." [NYT]
A shoplifter gets exposed Luddite style--on paper, taped to a signpost. [Curbed]
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a.k.a. The Book of Lamentations:
a bitterly nostalgic look at a city in the process of going extinct
- Jeremiah Moss
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The French Library closing just makes me feel angry. It's truly disgusting what's happening.
ReplyDeletethe head from the old Ziegfeld is amazing...
ReplyDelete$1 million a year for that space?
ReplyDeleteWhat are they going to sell, drugs?
How do you make money paying $1 million a year in rent?
I HATE this abbreviation "FIDI" What the flying F* is that all about?
It's called DOWNTOWN.