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Our favorite picture of our dearly departed grandmother is from the late fifties and shows her rocking a hairdo she would fondly recall as an "updo." And now, the Medusa Hair Salon (love that name!) in Park Slope has a …
nymag.com » Daily Intel - Oct 10, 2008
If you've ever had to cross Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, you know how deadly it is traffic-wise, even if it's supposed to symbolize the glory of the New Brooklyn, with Meier's glassy new pile, One Prospect Park, right …
nymag.com » Daily Intel - Oct 10, 2008
Did you know that not only is this the last weekend that Governors Island is open to the public but also that they're demolishing ten buildings there today to create more parkland and you can go there and watch the …
nymag.com » Daily Intel - Oct 9, 2008
Once upon a time (well, two years ago), artist Chuck Close worried that the new development on Bond Street would block the natural light he needed to work in his studio at Number 20. Now it turns out the painter and …
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Williamsburg, Land of the Lushly Rich and Humbly Cautiousnymag.com » Daily Intel - Oct 9, 2008 Photo: williamsburgedge.com Two fabulous polarities come out of Williamsburg today. On one end, the hood's most expensive residential sale ever was announced today — a $5.145 million duplex penthouse in massive new … |
nymag.com » Daily Intel - Oct 9, 2008
You may not know that the rather nondescript West 28th Street was once the site of Tin Pan Alley, the row of music publishers to composers like the Gershwins, Irving Berlin, and Johnny Mercer. Now, five of those …
nymag.com » Daily Intel - Oct 8, 2008
Photo: Getty Images Well, we've all known for a while now that the spray from the fancy art waterfalls was hurting the trees in Dumbo and Brooklyn Heights, and now there's hard scientific proof: Soil at the River …
nymag.com » Daily Intel - Oct 8, 2008
Following up on the smashing of the mysterious "maple-syrup smell" in Manhattan, now Greenpoint — which, even though we don't go there much, seems like the most charmingly strange hood in all of New York City — has a …
nymag.com » Daily Intel - Oct 7, 2008
Being of some Mediterranean blood and having a profile that suggests it, we ourselves historically have been asked this time of year on the street by Orthodox Jews if we are Jewish (because they want to help other Jews …
nymag.com » Daily Intel - Oct 7, 2008
It's hard not to like our current Greatest Depression just a little bit when perhaps it's linked to happy news like the fact that the longtime Chelsea Antiques Garage on 25th Street (which was to close after …