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WOODINVILLE, Wash.—Five years ago, Quadrant Homes churned out starter houses in the Seattle area with an average sales price of $269,000 and the marketing slogan, “More House, Less Money.” But facing a debt-burdened middle class and rising land prices, Quadrant has since exchanged entry-level buyers for customers free of credit worries and ready to splurge….
Rose Hill Tavern View Full Caption KIPS BAY — Rose Hill Tavern, a home to fans of the New England Patriots, was shut down by the Health Department just days before the team is set to play in the Super Bowl. The sports bar, at 337 Third Ave., was closed on Wednesday evening because of…
Well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well. Well. Despite the nearly unanimous agreement that ordering delivery during asnow storm is a dick move, we just can’t help ourselves. Yesterday we revealed that New York and Boston decided to get tanked on Monday night and sent Drizly (an on-demand booze delivery service) ordersskyrocketing to an over…
A press conference will be held Thursday to announce the construction of the Hunters Point Library. Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer, library officials, local families and business owners will meet at Center Boulevard and 48th Avenue at 9:30 am to announce that the project has been funded and that construction will soon begin. The 21,500-square-foot library…
(Tien Mao/Gothamist) Jimmy McMillan, he of perpetual office-seeking and a beard that would chagrin a topiary, is being evicted from his rent-stablized East Village apartment. According to the Daily News, the freewheeling leader of the Rent Is Too Damn High party has been served an eviction notice ousting him from his $872 per month St….
Bank of England Governor Mark Carney has attacked eurozone austerity. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA The Bank of England governor, Mark Carney, has launched a strong attack on austerity in the eurozone as he warned that he single-currency area was caught in a debt trap that could cost it a second lost decade. Speaking in Dublin, Carney…
My bladder is the Murphy’s Law of organs. It’s not that it’s small, exactly; rather, it’s disagreeable; neurotic. It conspires. In cahoots with some quietly disgruntled fold of my brain, the devil bag demands emptying only when it cannot be plausibly emptied. It is as if there is a tiny agoraphobe peering out at all…
(Bloomberg) — The blizzard blowing through the U.S. northeast won’t drop as much snow as forecasters anticipated, sparing residents and clean-up crews the worst of the potentially life-threatening storm that some predicted. New York City may get no more than a foot of snow as the nor’easter tapers off Tuesday evening, compared to a forecast…
The great #Blizzardof2015 had already dumped several inches of snow on the greater New York City area by late Monday evening EST, and many transportation links, including subways, bridges, and tunnels, are closed in anticipation of an historic snowfall on the east coast. “Non-essential” travel is now banned in the city. Before nightfall, the falling…
Mayor de Blasio lifted the city-wide travel ban this morning after that devastating blizzard turned out to be just a bunch of stupid snow. There’s about half a foot in Central Park this morning—not the 24 inches or more that was expected—and current forecasts don’t call for much more additional accumulation today. And there is…