Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
“My, isn’t downtown exotic!” (kupicoo/iStockPhoto) Every so often, a newspaper will publish a Rich Person Real Estate Trend piece so horrifying I am certain I will keel over at my desk and die. Usually the Times is responsible for these monstrosities. But somehow, today the Wall Street Journal managed to top even the couple…
On the City College of New York’s handsome Gothic campus, leaking ceilings have turned hallways into obstacle courses of buckets. The bathrooms sometimes run out of toilet paper. The lectures are becoming uncomfortably overcrowded, and course selections are dwindling, because of steep budget cuts. The faculty of the college’s well-regarded engineering school is so “disengaged…
He could have been free for the cost of a cup of coffee. A Queens man spent nearly five months at Rikers Island — from November 2014 to April 2015 — without knowing his bail was just $2, according to records and his lawyers. Aitabdel Salem, 41, who was acquitted of bail jumping…
Sarma Melngailis had it all: an Ivy League degree, model looks and a hot vegan restaurant, Pure Food and Wine in Gramercy, beloved by Alec Baldwin and Bill Clinton. Now, she’s got a mug shot, a $350,000 bail and husband Anthony Strangis: an alleged gambling addict with a criminal past and an 11-year-old child he…
Photo Officers escorted people who had been charged with selling fake tickets to the Statue of Liberty out of the 7th Precinct on the Lower East Side of Manhattan on Wednesday. Credit Dave Sanders for The New York Times The arrival of spring beckons millions of tourists to New York City, and many are set…
After a couple of years off, Curbed’s column Three Cents Worth makes its triumphant return! This week, real estate appraiser, Curbed graph guru, blogger, and podcaster Jonathan Miller looks at the what’s going on in Manhattan’s up-and-down rental market. The April 2016 Manhattan-Brooklyn-Queens rental report was published late last week and I thought I’d present some additional Manhattan rental charts. Rents in…
Skybridges today are relics of New York City’s past—a formidable symbol of what architects imagined the city’s future could look like. But those that remain are not only few and far between, but also often in a state of disrepair. Despite that, one architecture firm has been working to bring them back into the spotlight, and…
New York City vs. San Francisco: Part Deux — The Cooper Review — Medium. Source: New York City vs. San Francisco: Part Deux — The Cooper Review — Medium
A small stretch of Canal Street is at war — and it’s pretty. Companies in buildings across the street from each other are filling their windows with Post-it notes in elaborate designs in what’s become something of a colorful battle of one-upsmanship, as first reported by New York 1. Marge & Maggie stopped by #postitwar #canalnotes pic.twitter.com/6ZFhCwLtHS…
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is asking riders of the L subway how they would like their nightmare: nasty, brutish and shortish, or somewhat less painful but twice as long. Those were the choices offered Thursday night at a community meeting in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Another meeting is scheduled in Manhattan this Thursday. The M.T.A. says the…