Go see Lost Bohemia, the story of Carnegie Hall's studio tenants and their failed fight to stay at home--next week at the New York Documentary Film Fest.
What to tip a cabbie when you puke in his car. [Gawker]
Into the former Old Homestead Inn space comes the Coal Yard--another good bar from the fine folks who brought back The International, dedicated to preserving local life. [EVG]
Hexing redevelopment at SPURA Site 4. [BB]
Meet the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club. [13]
How a NYC education can cost you over a million dollars--if you're one of those lunatic parents who believes the right pre-school is the golden road to Harvard. [HP]
The city's candy stores. [NYT]
Bedbugs at the UN--poor people setting fire to their mattresses. [NYP]
The year before I left 12th Street, I found a fairly large dead red-tailed hawk on my terrace.
ReplyDeleteI have a feeling that they eat rodents who have ingested rat poison over at Thompkins Square.
Even dead, it was extremely handsome!
I just saw a dead sparrow on Broome...is something sinister afoot??
ReplyDeleteevery so often it seems someone poisons the pigeons. maybe the little birds get caught up in that sinister business.
ReplyDeleteI saw a dying sparrow on Houston. I also saw a great many panicked sparrows swooping and swirling outside my kitchen window. I suspect hawks.
ReplyDeleteLooking at the picture again, it wasn't a sparrow I saw; it was a yellow chested warbler. Outside a glass building (the Ludlow), looking dazed.
ReplyDeletethe World Trade Center was a major killer of migratory birds.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.newyorker.com/archive/2001/05/28/010528ta_TALK_DAWN_PATROL
it was peta who brought world trade center down.
ReplyDeleteHaha someone's been drinking the Franzen-aid.
ReplyDelete