Thursday lunchtime linkage
Whole Foods, Gowanus and gentrification [New Yorker] Revenge is a bar best served successful [New York Post] Melissa Mark-Viverito is…
Category: News
Writers: A group in Detroit wants to give you a free house
Writing. It's a tough racket, especially if you aspire to do anything loftier than say mean things about people's terrible…
Effort underway to co-name LES corner after the Beastie Boys
The Beastie Boys already have one member of the group, with Adam Yauch Park in Brooklyn Heights. Of course, given…
Wednesday lunchtime linkage
Pictures of New York from those far off days known as the 90s [Gizmodo] Today is Robert Moses' birthday. No…
You, yes you, can go to Bill de Blasio’s inauguration for free
Well, the day is rapidly approaching, like a snowball rolling down a mountain and growing cartoonishly larger: Bill de Blasio…
Tuesday lunchtime linkage
Meet the young, hip, with it liberal new members of the City Council [Wall Street Journal] Welcome...to Night Vale, the…
Monday lunchtime linkage
George W. Bush is not a hipster icon, stop it [Wonkette] The AP dryly does their AP thing for Bloomberg's…
The Marty Markowitz Christmas card is pure, unfiltered Marty Markowitz
What you see above is the Christmas card Marty Markowtiz sent out to community board members this year, to remind…
Fidgety Park Slope mom is the best Park Slope mom
http://youtu.be/zcFuWLXqH-s Curbed has a new video series, Neighborhood Crashers, where they go around asking resident of a neighborhood what they…
Graffiti bombers hit new Bed-Stuy building with ‘Gentrify Here’ tag
Just in time for that whole "Bed-Stuy is the new Williamsburg" thing, Bed-Stuy is getting some fancy new apartments of…