Thursday, February 4, 2010

*Everyday Chatter

Nightlife Town Hall Tonight: The new chairman of the State Liquor Authority is meeting with EV residents about bar noise in the neighborhood. Says the flyer, "Chairman Rosen already has the reputation for wanting to expedite licenses." Attend the meeting and let the State know--no more noisy bars:


Arthur Miller's room at the Chelsea Hotel is on the chopping block--demolition has begun. [LWL]

Saying goodbye to the city's nut roasters. (Note: The nut place on Hester St. was Kadouri & Sons, and it was wonderful.) [NYT]

Big-box, mega-mall, or jumbo-dorm for Red Hook? [Curbed]

Check out this vintage TV commercial for a Christopher St. gay bookstore. [EVG]

Above the abandoned porn shops of far west Christopher St., advertising diamonds to the new, well-heeled neighbors:

3 comments:

Jill said...

Tonight's SLA meet and greet opened with Squadron (was it him, now I actually can't remember who did the deed) reading this photo of the notice you posted. He said the word "blog" several times to make his point of blogs=rumours=don't believe everything you read.

Jeremiah Moss said...

hey Jill, glad you were there. what does he not want us to believe?

are you going to post about it?

Jill said...

I will post about it, but just haven't had time. Too busy bar hopping and vomiting on the street.

They said that their speeding up the process of approvals doesn't mean that they will pay less attention to the details and rubber stamp them, which is what the sign implies.