Thursday, November 21, 2024

Empire State of Mind

New York Is Allowing Developers to Kill the City: 70 Year Old West Side Highway Car Wash Closes, Fabled Paris Theater Shuttering, Bank Replacing...

I was pretty shocked last night when I realized the West Side Highway car wash has closed after over 70 years. With its brilliant...

Death in Greenwich Village: As Anti-Septic Hudson Yards Opens, 40 Year Old Spaghetto Trattoria Is Closed by New Landlords

I know, everyone is excited about Hudson Yards. It's glass, steel, and chrome. It's so ugly it's mind blowing. A whole new futuristic neighborhood...

Amazon Abandons Plans for Massive Headquarters in Long Island City After Residents Tell Them to Go Away

Amazon will not be coming to New York's Long Island City in Queens. We will have to go out to the corner and buy...

New York, New York: Sarah Dash Singing Tonight, Bryan Cranston on Broadway, Dawes in Town, Common’s Shoes Have a Good Rap

NEW YORK, NEW YORK-- If we survive Election Day here's what's been going on... The great Sarah Dash from the group Labelle is performing tonight...

David Foster, Jon Voight Hang Out, Plus Chita Rivera Awards the Best, Shopping to Stop Cancer

New York really is a small town. Leaving the Outer Critics Circle annual awards dinner on Thursday afternoon, who should turn up in Sardi's?...

UPDATE: NY AG Eric Schneiderman Resigns After New Yorker Article Startles: “No one is above the law”

NY Governor Andrew Cuomo, who never liked Eric Schneiderman anyway, is happy to suggest that he resign immediately. I agree. Who wouldn't after reading...

End of Days? New York Attorney General Accused of Beating Women, Threatening to Kill Them, and Oliver North is Head of the NRA

This may have been the End of Days. While celebrities are going up a red carpet dressed like it's Halloween on Malcolm Forbes's yacht, the...

“Sopranos” Sequel, Not a Scorsese Movie– Manhattan US Attorney Indicts 10 Mobsters (with Nicknames) Associated with the Bonnano Crime Family

Doesn't "The Sopranos" sound like something from TV? "The Godafather"? Well, guess again. Today the US Attorney's office rounded up 10 frightening sounding members...