September 2011
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"Safe Slope" Will Walk You Home This Weekend,... →
It’s true! (Full disclosure: I’m an organizer and volunteer with Safe Slope.)
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Pointing to Congress, the city warns... →
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Listen to Azi discuss the Haggerty trail with... →
He was on the show this morning.
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And I love that Jeff Bezos made his presentation...
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Quality live coverage over at thisismynext.com.
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WatchMelancholia
There is one thing to be said about von Trier’s films: They are 100 percent personal statements, and he approaches his projects with an uncompromising single-mindedness. In an industry ever more completely dominated by corporations, with cineplexes filled with pumped-up sequels and mindless superhero franchises, a director like Lars von Trier is a bracing tonic, and a...
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“If we start the precedent that every time there’s a disaster, that...”
– Charles Schumer, who worries about setting a bad precedent if his party agrees to House offset demands on the disaster bill | by Reid Pillifant | Capital New York
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Watch“Moneyball, directed by Bennett Miller, may be one of the purest baseball movies of all time in that it is actually about … baseball.
Bull Durham is a baseball movie that’s really also a love story. Field of Dreams is a baseball movie that’s really also the story of a man haunted by the imperfect relationship he had with his father. There’s also The Sandlot,...
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The Launchbox →
An obsessive and obsessively absorbing blog about the digging of the Second Avenue Subway tunnel.
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NYCEDC: The Atlantic: "Mayor of the World" →
nycedc:
The Atlantic calls Bloomberg “the mayor of the world”:
With an annual budget of about $60 billion, 250,000 municipal employees, nearly 35,000 armed police officers, over 26,000 vehicles, and 656 miles of subway track, the sheer scale of New York City governance dwarfs…
Police documents obtained by The Associated Press... →
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WatchR.E.M. - “Leaving New York”
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“Unfortunately this body does not reflect the diversity that I celebrate and that...”
– In Brooklyn, the state’s redistricting task force comes under criticism for a lack of diversity | by Reid Pillifant | Capital New York
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“Chinatown, with its jostling sidewalks narrowed by bins heaping with live crabs,...”
– While most of New York City has bounced back — economically and physically — since Sept. 11, 2001, Chinatown has struggled to reverse their slump, writes the New York Times. The months-long frozen zone that came after the attacks hurt businesses and restaurants worse than in other places. It’s...
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esquared:
“They’ve ended back where she started, in Times Square. “I think I fit in better here,” she says, calling from their tiny apartment overlooking the glittery, dirty center of Manhattan, where people from everywhere arrive each day to live out stories whose endings they can’t yet imagine.”
~ A Holly Golightly for the Stripper-Embezzlement Age (New York Magazine)
