Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
View of the lawn last night. (Photo by Sarah Bel) The Bryant Park summer movie series is one of the most well-attended outdoor movie series in the city (and there are a lot). It also has the odd tradition of what we’ll call: The Lawn Rush. At exactly 5 o’clock every Monday movie night, attendees…
Thousands of mythical, dazzling (and scantily clad) sea creatures are about to descend on Coney Island. The annual Mermaid Parade, the largest art parade in the nation and one of the city’s biggest festivals, kicks off this Saturday at 1pm. Actor Mat Fraser, who reigns over this year’s parade as King Neptune, has a blunt question:…
Donald Trump‘s big presidential announcement Tuesday was made a little bigger with help from paid actors — at $50 a pop. New York-based Extra Mile Casting sent an email last Friday to its client list of background actors, seeking extras to beef up attendance at Trump’s event. “We are looking to cast people for the…
The alternative lodging site has some interesting views on the city’s neighborhoods. View Full Caption DNAinfo Illustration NEW YORK CITY — What does Airbnb think about New York City neighborhoods? The site, which connects travelers looking for an alternative to hotels with residents in cities across the world, features write-ups of many of the city’s ‘hoods….
The New York Police Department is having trouble diversifying its ranks because so many black men have criminal records, according to Police Chief Bill Bratton. “We have a significant population gap among African-American males because so many of them have spent time in jail and, as such, we can’t hire them,” Bratton told the Guardian…
Ellie Evangelista loves dressing up as her favorite superhero, Spider-Man. View Full Caption Courtesy of Margaret Ryan HUDSON HEIGHTS — She’s just your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. Like many 4-year-olds, Hudson Heights resident Ellie Evangelista loves to dress up like her favorite superhero and act out scenes of Spider-Man’s death-defying bravery. Then some boys…
(Charles McQuillan/Getty Images) In Sunday’s New York Times, Wednesday Martin claims to blow the lid off a certain set of fashionable, hedge-fund dependent Upper East Side wives with children. It’s a group with whom she spent six years socializing at the playground and in other casual settings—an experience Martin, who holds a BA in anthropology,…
Photo Going to school on the Upper East Side. Credit Erin Baiano for The New York Times A few weeks ago, a woman named Wednesday Martin, a hobby anthropologist whose graduate degree is in comparative literature, published an op-ed article in The New York Times outlining some of the observations she makes in her forthcoming…
Earlier this month, a squirrel in the Bronx bit an MTA worker’s finger, sending her to the hospital. Now, it appears squirrels have developed a taste for salty, delectable people flesh—a second MTA worker has been attacked by a squirrel, this time in the train car of a Coney Island-bound Q train. It’s unclear whether…
Imagine two of the worst New York real estate nightmares consolidated into one: Such is apparently the case for Ari Teman, the man whose Chelsea apartment made headlines last year after his Airbnb guests turned his sublet into a “XXX Freak Fest orgy.” Thanks to all that drama, Teman now says he’s found himself on the city’s infamous…