Urban Baby today will make you nuts with its discussion of rich New Yorkers who feel poor: "Under 1Bil in savings in NYC, and you cannot buy anything." [Gothamist]
Books--are they "increasingly illegal intoxicants"? An interview with St. Mark's bookseller Karen Lillis. [SS]
Massachusetts fish coming to 1st Ave and St. Mark's--to the former home of Prana Foods where Allen Ginsberg used to buy his organic, bruised vegetables. [EVG]
An Art Deco masterpiece in the Bronx. [SNY]
3,000 polar bears take the Coney plunge. [ATZ]
e.e. cummings in the Village. [OTG]
At the High Line, a Scores billboard girl gets a cosmetic cover-up for her stubble:
Please tell me those urban baby commenters are fake...
ReplyDeleteClearly you don't understand the plight of these poor commenters. Sure they make a lot of money, but they also have to buy a lot of expensive things! It's horrible.
ReplyDeleteI love art deco. I miss living in upper Manhattan because of those buildings. I don't understand why people lust after brownstones, my dream NYC home is a top floor corner apartment in one of those things.
Here's an expense of an UESider, $500K/yr is barely livable, not that I'm defending them
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/08/fashion/08halfmill.html
Longing for the good old days? I shopped at Prana for 30 years - my most vivid memory is not of Alan Ginsberg but of turning the corner onto the center aisle and coming face to face with the largest rat I'd ever seen - cat size - waddling down the aisle. It was like 3:00 in the afternoon. I literally backed up and around the corner back to aisle one.
ReplyDeleteI continued to shop there, but I always peeked around the aisle to make sure the coast was clear.
good one. i never saw any rats in there, but i did like their (apparently lazy) cat.
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