Monday lunchtime linkage
Life as a really expensive call girl [New York Post] Life as a really poor retail employee [New York Times]…
Category: News
Wednesday lunchtime links
Working for Amazon can be hazardous to your health [BBC] New York almost has the most Superfund sites in the…
Revealed: Atlantic Yards’ (expensive) affordable and market rents
Despite the fact that every day, the promise of not just affordable housing, but housing in general, going up near…
Single $965/month Crown Heights 2-bedroom is city’s cruelest housing lottery
The whole lottery system for affordable housing is already kind of crushing and bleak and generally makes you want to…
Tuesday lunchtime linkage
Oh god Mets, what are you doing [SB Nation] Marty Markowtiz loves him some proclamations [The Brooklyn Paper] Ikea Brooklyn…
Charles Bradley opens Rough Trade NYC with soul, pelvic gyrations
Indie record shops keep closing, especially in Williamsburg, and why not? You can instantly buy or stream any song you…
Why one young writer left New York: Too many damn wizards
Leaving New York City. It seems that everyone is either talking about how they want to do it or writing…
City of New York: Stop pouring cooking grease down the drain
So you've made a lovely meal for your special lady and you both ate it and are sated. And like…
Bill de Blasio plans to tax NYC’s vacant lots out of existence
Despite visionaries like Glenn Beck and the majority of the terrified editorial pages of New York City warning us about…
Now there’s a beautifully doomed counter-proposal for the Domino development
It's become conventional wisdom that the Domino factory site was about to go through enormous upheaval, as luxury towers went…