Posts Tagged ‘New York’
I Love New York: Graffiti Orders ‘Banksy Go Home’
IN New York, signs are the locals have had enough of Banksy’s stunts:
Spotter: Brendan O’Neill
Who Stole Gumby?
Gumby was created by sculptor Ze’ev Willy Neumann. The locals loved it, as Mr Malkin says:
“People would see it and smile and take their kids to say ‘Hi’ to Gumby… It’s an American classic. He’s friendly. Everybody loves Gumby. I guess the people responsible loved him so much that they stole him.”
Posted: 17th, October 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Racist Goldman Sachs worker knocked out by arrested black man he abused
ON the one side of the public ring in New York city’s West Village, stood mouthing off in a gilded corner with the diamond studs and shorts made from golden eagle perinea, is a suited and booted Goldman Sachs master of the universe. On the other side is a black couple eating burritos.
The GM-modified human stumbles into the dining couple’s table. The dining man is Douglas Reddish, 25. He makes to ‘steady‘ the drunken fool. So it says in the New York Post.
GM yells, according to police:
“This nigger wants to fight me! You niggers are why I lost my job.”
Reddish then delivers a coup de grace to GM’s chin. The banker falls down. His head hits the concrete. There is much blood.
A waiter tells us:
“He was out cold. I thought he was dead.”
Reddish is not carried high on the shoulders of the populace. He legs it. He leaves his girlfriend behind. The Goldman Sachs employee is taken to hospital, where he remains in a serious condition.
Mr Reddish has been arrested for assault.
Your sympathies may be mixed. The NY Post call the banker a “cad“. That makes him sound admirable, no, a Terry Thomas-style charmer?
New Yorker sues for slipping on “foreign white substance” at gym
MARC Moskowitz says he slipped on a “foreign white substance” on the floor at the Bally Total Fitness gym on E. 55th St., New York City.
Mr Moskowitz blames the gays. In his lawsuit filed at the Manhattan Supreme Court, Mr Moskowitz, 66, says the place is known for “cruising and lewd behaviour”, that homosexual action is “commonplace at the steam room, sauna and locker rooms. As a result of the aforementioned activities, there was bodily fluids and other evidence of sexual activity wherever it occurred throughout the gym.”
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New York City’s smallest museum
NEW York City’s smallest museum is not the collection of crap in your jacket pocket. The world’s smallest museum is Museum, a small space between Franklin St & White St in New York City. What you see is “absurdity or the beauty in the everyday”.
While it’s only open 16 hours a week, during the day on Saturdays and Sundays, the museum’s contents are viewable 24/7, lit and sealed by glass doors.
Passers-by are encouraged to call a toll-free number to learn about the 15 collections, comprising 200 objects, inside, including a series of Disney-themed bulletproof backpacks; U.S. paper money and coins so mutilated the Fed has deemed them unfit for currency, gathered by artist and writer Harley Spiller, a.k.a. Inspector Collector; a selection of objects from a fake Mars excavation; and personal items fabricated by prisoners, such as dice made out of bread, collected by multimedia artist Baron Von Fancy. Museum also offers several unique ways to experience the world: You can compare industrial designer Tucker Viemeister’s collection of toothpaste tubes from all over the map, or potato chip bags from various countries (collected by an eighth-grade class), as well as a globetrotting fake vomit collection. And that’s just the beginning.
Collectors Weekly talked with one of the museum’s curators:
In the current season, there’s a collection of toothpaste tubes from around the world. There’s a collection of mutilated U.S. currencies, money that’s counterfeit or real money that’s been scrawled on. There’s a collection from Alvin Goldstein, who was the founder and editor of Screw magazine, who shared with us personal belongings that have stayed with him throughout the narrative of his life. There’s a collection of Disney-themed children’s bulletproof backpacks. They’re things that touch upon something that’s happening in society, things that comment on where we’re at and how we’re thinking and what we’re doing
The picture above is of toothpaste tubes:
In addition to the odd or anachronistic thingamajigs that form this micromuseum’s “permanent collection,” a series of arty New Yorkers have lent their own weird stuff. The industrial designer Tucker Viemeister shares his amusing collection of toothpaste tubes from around the world, while the artist Leah Singer reveals the strange things she found on copy machines in New York City in the 1980s or thereabouts, including one pamphlet titled “The Chronic Masturbator’s To-Do List.”
View the museum’s brochure.
Posted: 20th, June 2013 | In: Reviews, The Consumer | Comment
A banker goes begging on the New York Subway (video)
TO New York, where a banker is begging. Another man is to keep out of his mum’s house. Tracey is begging to pay her second mortgage:
Posted: 5th, February 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
1931: State Superintendent closes American Union Bank New York
FLASHBACK: Depositors gather outside the closed doors of the American Union Bank in New York City, Aug. 5, 1931. It is one of the smaller city banks which experienced a depreciation of their assets and were closed by order of the state superintendent of banks. (AP Photo)
Posted: 10th, December 2012 | In: Flashback, Money | Comment
Salvatore Perrone: this police sketch looks nothing like him
TO New York , where Salvatore Perrone, 64, is accused of killing three shopkeepers. Perrone, 64, of Staten Island is alleged to have killed the three men with a sawn-off shotgun. Police found the gun at Perrone’s girlfriend’s home in Brooklyn. Isaac Kadare, Mohammed Gebeli and Rahmatollah Vahidipour died in their shops.
This is the police sketch of the wanted man:
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Posted: 28th, November 2012 | In: Reviews | Comments (3)
1938: photos inside the Pilgrim Psychiatric Center in Brentwood, New York
FLASHBACK to 1938. The Pilgrim Psychiatric Center in Brentwood, New York. The place was, and still is, home to the sickest of the mentally ill. When the place opened on October 1, 1931, it was the largest psychiatric hospital in the world. In 1954, the place was home to 13,875 patients. Many died there. There are 18,000 numbered cemetery plots on the grounds.
Posted: 19th, October 2012 | In: Flashback | Comments (2)
Two New York suits fight over a tax (video)
To New York, to see two suited and booted New Yorkers fighting over a taxi. The chunkier chap wins. The fat will inherit the Earth (and not walk):
New York’s The Place restaurant dishes up a terrible advert (video)
THE Place is an eatery in New York’s West Village. It has produced one of the worst adverts ever. “We were looking for special…and we found magical”. In a cave:
Posted: 27th, August 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comments (3)
Brett Cohen pranks people into believing he’s famous – becomes famous
BRETT Cohen pranks people into believing he’s famous – becomes famous. Cohen hit the streets of New York City, where the bridge and tunnel crowd come to see the lights and maybe a face. What Cohen did was tape into the truth that there is no small joy in spotting a celebrity.
You’d expect to see one in New York, of course. You’d less expect to see one in Des Moins or Davenport, Iowa. He should conduct another experiment in less starry more out-of-the-way places. Give those locals a thrill Still, all good fun:
Posted: 23rd, August 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)
The New York heat map
WHO’S packing heat in New York City. With his map you can find out. The heat map, by John Keefe at broadcaster WNYC, tells you where people were stopped and frisked the most, and where weapons were found. Two things to note: where you search more you find more; why are there not more searches in the Bronx, where guns are plentiful?
Faces of the day: New York’s Honeys and Bears synchronized swim team
FACES of the day: Members of the Honeys and Bears synchronized swim group gather for directions from their coach Oliver Foote at Harlem’s Thomas Jefferson Park pool in New York, Monday, July 9, 2012. The group, which started in 1979, now has 41 members – 10 men and 31 women – who range in age from 62 to 100 years old. Hope floats…
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Lettice Graham, 90, center, enters Thomas Jefferson Park pool in New York, Monday, July 9, 2012. Graham has been a member of the synchronized swim group,Harlem Honeys and Bears, for 36 years. The group was founded in 1979, and has grown to 41 members, 10 men and 31 women. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
Rat runs up woman’s leg on New York Subway – she drops trousers
ANA Vargas, 40, says that whilst riding the A train New York City a rat ran up her trouier leg. She tells the NY Daily News: “I thought it was my pants moving.”“I said, ‘Oh, my God — it’s an animal on my leg!’ He was very big. I was shaking, but nothing was coming out . . . I had to pull my pants down in front of everyone on the train.”
Posted: 13th, June 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
“Mad Men” mania hits the States
“MAD MEN” mania is setting in in the States as the fifth season of the hit series kicks off this Sunday. As befits a television drama depicting the dawning of the ad industry, the advertising campaign for the show has caused a great stir.
In New York City, where the show is set, there have been complaints that one of the posters is insensitive to victims of the 9/11 attacks. The poster shows a drawing of a besuited man tumbling from the sky. Critics say it is uncomfortably reminiscent of the harrowing photograph known as “Falling Man”. Captured by Richard Drew, that photo showed a man falling head first out of the Twin Towers on 9/11.
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Posted: 22nd, March 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Tramps are now made useful by being turned into WiFi hotspots
TRAMPS. They’ve got an awful life. When the weather’s bad, they feel it most. The die in doorways and have septic extremities. And to think, they’ve got the paucity to actually ask you for money while you’re throwing a sandwich in the bin because it was a ‘bit dry’.
Either way, vagrants are being put to good use as a New York ad agency has decided to turn them into walking WiFi aerials.
Bartle, Bogle and Hegarty (BBH) handed out free MiFi gadgets to the panhandlers along with t-shirts sporting their names alongside the words “I’m a 4G hotspot”. The hobos will be bothering people with their excellent connective properties at hipsterfest, SXSW.
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Posted: 13th, March 2012 | In: Key Posts, Technology | Comment
Live-tweeting from the Park Slope Coop meeting – a gathering for tortured PC souls
WITH its leafy streets lined with charming brownstones, Park Slope is one of New York’s most desirable neighbourhoods. The area’s name comes from its location on the western slope of Prospect Park – Brooklyn’s green oasis.
In the family-friendly Park Slope, also nicknamed “Stroller City”, yummy mummies brush shoulders with actors, directors and authors. Tom Hanks has a house here, as does Steve Buscemi and celebrity couple Maggie Gyllenhall and Peter Sarsgaard. Vintage shops, restaurants serving locally-sourced food and fair-trade coffee, community gardens and farmers’ markets cater to the well-to-do residents’ every need and PC preoccupation.
At the heart of the neighbourhood is the Park Slope Coop, a members’ only supermarket selling organic fruit and veg, artisan cheeses, supplements and vitamins, environmentally-friendly cleaning material and more. The coop has over 15,000 members, most of whom work at the shop once a month in exchange for discounts on groceries – and the buzz they get from feeling morally superior to their fast-food chomping peers.
This week, Reuters journalist and Park Slope Food Coop member Chadwick Maitlin attended the association’s monthly meeting and decided to live tweet it. Lasting over two hours, the Twitter documentation of the earnest proceedings gives a hilarious insight into the tortured souls of Park Slope, whose quandaries about things like how many times to re-use biodegradable plastic bags and whether or not to buy “fascist food” is beyond parody. Here’s a selection of Maitlin’s tweets. Read them and weep.
I wasn’t going to, but it’s too good not to tweet. The park slope food coop meeting has begun.
— Chadwick Matlin (@ChadwickMatlin) February 29, 2012
The room is tense with passive aggression. Israeli food referendum dominates. Free Oreos given out, but not free hummus.
— Chadwick Matlin (@ChadwickMatlin) February 29, 2012
Man gets up, says coop should ban Israeli food only if it bans american food because of native American occupation. He’s wearing yarmulke.
— Chadwick Matlin (@ChadwickMatlin) February 29, 2012
Food coordinator admits that even though clemntines are coming from Morocco, they’re really delicious.
— Chadwick Matlin (@ChadwickMatlin) February 29, 2012
Have now moved on to tonight’s business: whether to eliminate plastic produce bags at coop. No vote tonight. Just discussion.
— Chadwick Matlin (@ChadwickMatlin) February 29, 2012
Slide: “plastic bags + fracking?”
— Chadwick Matlin (@ChadwickMatlin) February 29, 2012
Proponent saying one reason to ban plastic bags because they go into trash that goes through low income community in South Bronx.
— Chadwick Matlin (@ChadwickMatlin) February 29, 2012
Proponent says one option to replace plastic bags is that members can make their own cloth replacements.
— Chadwick Matlin (@ChadwickMatlin) February 29, 2012
Anti plastic bag PSA being played. Called “The Shopper”. Spoof of “The Artist”
— Chadwick Matlin (@ChadwickMatlin) February 29, 2012
“but my collards won’t fit!” — one of the actresses in the silent film PSA.
— Chadwick Matlin (@ChadwickMatlin) February 29, 2012
Lengthy speech abt cost of cloth bags compred to plastic bags on scale. Half cent on a scale, not factoring in cost of water to clean them.
— Chadwick Matlin (@ChadwickMatlin) February 29, 2012
Woman proposing that coop could have muslin (sp?) bag donation drive.
— Chadwick Matlin (@ChadwickMatlin) February 29, 2012
Counterpoint! “Bio bags have their own sustainability issues. A lot of them are made from corn.” Proposes group bag share w mutual cleaning.
— Chadwick Matlin (@ChadwickMatlin) February 29, 2012
“Most ppl have a bag of bags. I used to have a bag of bags that took up half the closet.”
— Chadwick Matlin (@ChadwickMatlin) February 29, 2012
Man comes up to speak and say that he heard on the news that somebody may have discovered a plastic-eating bacteria.
— Chadwick Matlin (@ChadwickMatlin) February 29, 2012
“My name is Robert Dow. No relation to Dow Chemical.”
— Chadwick Matlin (@ChadwickMatlin) February 29, 2012
“corn production contributes to dead zone on ocean, so that’s one thing to consider if we use corn bags”
— Chadwick Matlin (@ChadwickMatlin) February 29, 2012
“In europe I have been using the biodegradable, and they degrade do fast by the time you’re at checkout you don’t know where the bag is”
— Chadwick Matlin (@ChadwickMatlin) February 29, 2012
Bag washing instructions: “you dump them in water with white vinegar. A week later it’s still smiling!”
— Chadwick Matlin (@ChadwickMatlin) February 29, 2012
“the responsible thing for the coop to do is to remove the temptation”
— Chadwick Matlin (@ChadwickMatlin) February 29, 2012
Clear sentiment emerging to pass the ban. But it’ll have to wait until enviro committee hones proposal, brings back another month for vote.
— Chadwick Matlin (@ChadwickMatlin) February 29, 2012
Nuanced point of civil liberty implications of ban raised (by my roommate.)
— Chadwick Matlin (@ChadwickMatlin) February 29, 2012
Plastic bag discussion now closed. Moving on now to whether all coop members should be required to shop with carts. (to prevent theft)
— Chadwick Matlin (@ChadwickMatlin) February 29, 2012
Getting history lesson on coop theft history. At one point in 80s, someone installed in high chair to watch over cashiers. (no longer)
— Chadwick Matlin (@ChadwickMatlin) February 29, 2012
“We had something called the no food zone.” In a grocery store.
— Chadwick Matlin (@ChadwickMatlin) February 29, 2012
“150 linear feet of vegetables. Most of which, organic. Just thrills me.”
— Chadwick Matlin (@ChadwickMatlin) February 29, 2012
Mandatory shopping cart usage far more controversial than plastic bag ban. Only at the coop.
— Chadwick Matlin (@ChadwickMatlin) February 29, 2012
New concerns about racial profiling being raised if we create a culture of “criminalization.”
— Chadwick Matlin (@ChadwickMatlin) February 29, 2012
Point of order for non members: reason why everyone still here because you have to sign in at beginning AND end of meeting. To prevent abuse
— Chadwick Matlin (@ChadwickMatlin) February 29, 2012
Final segment of meeting is time for questions about meeting. Man asks question about whthr discussion should be for comments…or questions
— Chadwick Matlin (@ChadwickMatlin) February 29, 2012
“Meeting is adjourned.” See you all next month for the Israel vote. (Or, rather the vote on whether to allow a vote)
— Chadwick Matlin (@ChadwickMatlin) February 29, 2012
Live-tweeting from the Park Slope Coop meeting – a gathering for tortured PC souls
WITH its leafy streets lined with charming brownstones, Park Slope is one of New York’s most desirable neighbourhoods. The name comes from the neighbourhood’s location on the western slope of Prospect Park – Brooklyn’s green oasis.
In the family-friendly Park Slope, also nicknamed “Stroller City”, yummy mummies brush shoulders with actors, directors and authors. Tom Hanks has a house here, as does Steve Buscemi and celebrity couple Maggie Gyllenhall and Peter Sarsgaard. Vintage shops, restaurants serving locally-sourced food and fair-trade coffee, community gardens and farmers’ markets cater to the well-to-do residents’ every need and PC preoccupation.
At the heart of the neighbourhood is the Park Slope Coop, a members’ only supermarket selling organic fruit and veg, artisan cheeses, supplements and vitamins, environmentally-friendly cleaning material and more. The coop has over 15,000 members, most of whom work at the shop once a month in exchange for discounts on groceries – and the buzz they get from feeling morally superior to their fast-food chomping peers.
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Twin Seoul Skyscrapers Look Like World Trade Centre Collapsing
THE South Korean skyline will soon feature The Cloud, a pair of skyscraper seemingly modelled on the collapse of the Twin Towers in New York. In 2016, office workers in Seoul’s redeveloped Yongsan business district will be able to toil at their desks just like the thousands of people did at the World Trade Centre before they were murdered by militant Islamists.
Any idea that the 54 and 60 storey towers by Dutch architects MVRDV are in poor taste are dismissed by White Paik, spokesman for the Yongsan Development Corporation:
“Allegations that it [the design] was inspired by the 9/11 attacks are groundless. There will be no revision or change in our project.”
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Posted: 14th, December 2011 | In: Money | Comment (1)
This Pre-Occupation With Playing The Victims Of Wall Street Is Just Pathetic
TODAY marks the two-month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. With the Zuccotti Park encampment in lower Manhattan cleared and hundreds being arrested in demonstrations in the financial district, it appears protesters have adopted an unflattering victim mentality.
There’s a whole lot of talk and tweeting going on about ‘police brutality’, ‘Nazi’ NYPD officers, ‘Cossacks in riot gear‘ sent in to ‘cleanse’ Zuccotti Park, and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg behaving like a repressive Arab leader. It all shows that today’s radical left-wing activists are happy, not only to display great historical ignorance, but also to revel in an image of themselves as put-upon underdogs.
Why else would the new poster-girls for the amorphous OWS movement be an 84-year-old lady, a pregnant teen and a disabled woman – three people who all got caught up in the tumult in the past few days? These are all figures many will recognise as fragile and innocent and so they are pushed to the forefront to demonstrate how vulnerable the protesters are.
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Posted: 17th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
Lovey-Dovey Photos From New York’s Same-Sex Marriages
TODAY gay and lesbian couples could legally marry in New York.
In New York City 823 couples married today. Across the state, hundreds more tied the knot. They could not wait any longer.
Albany Mayor Gerald D. Jennings D-Albany, to perform the city’s first legal same-sex marriage at City Hall at 12:01 a.m. Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster stood before a rainbow-lit Niagara Falls as a backdrop.
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It’s So Hot In New York: Photos Of Cooling Down In The Big Apple
IT’S hot in New York. Very hot. We’ve pulled together a gallery of New Yorkers cooling down. Who wants to jump into the Brooklyn street padding pool…?
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Stephanie Gracia, center, sit nearby and watch as her children and their friends cool off in an inflatable pool outside their apartment on Thursday, July 21, 2011, in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, New York. A heat wave that has enveloped much of the central part of the country for the past couple of weeks has moved east with temperatures topping 100-degree. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
Posted: 21st, July 2011 | In: Photojournalism | Comment
Murderer Seeks $50m Damages For Being Called An Inmate – Says It Implies He Has Sex With Men
MARIE Domond is suing the New York State Correctional Services Department for calling her brother, murderer Gerard Domond, an inmate at the Clinton Correctional Facility.
She says the word inmate “implies that our brother is locked up for the purpose of mating with other men“. She is seeking $50 million for damages for “mental anguish”. The prisoner is serving a 25-year jail term for shooting a man in the head.
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Posted: 4th, July 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (23)
