@MarketUrbanism The Atlantic decamped to DC from Boston, though. So even more NYC triumphalism is in order.
Bio: Sarah Laskow is a freelance reporter living in New York City. As a staff writer at the Center for Public Integrity, she covered money and politics, coal mining, and homeland security. Her work has appeared in TheNation.com, Politico, and The American Prospect.
Anyone who has turned to the library in the past few days for a copy of journalist Katherine Boo’s first book, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, met with one of the inevitable pains of living in New York: A very long line. By Wednesday evening, 350 holds had piled up for four available copies of the book. For the person at the end of the line, that would mean waiting for 88 other people to retrieve, read, and return the well-regarded 288-page book before it's available. Forever, basically.
In fact it won't take that long for patron No. 351. More
Posted on February 16th, 2012 11:43am
Until the rules went up in pastel colors on the left-hand door of Heathers on East 13th Street, it was easy to pass by without realizing that, behind those black doors in that black front, there was a bar. More
Posted on February 1st, 2012 9:52am
In 2003, a group of atmospheric scientists set out to illuminate the little-understood behavior of New York City’s urban atmosphere. And despite some significant advances, years later, they are left with the same problem as when they started: the movements of the atmosphere in a city as complicated as New York defy prediction. More
Posted on January 19th, 2011 3:09pm
There will be no more keg service at this address, and the promise that patrons could pour their own drinks withered long ago. Once, private parties commandeered space for revelries that lasted well into the night, featuring epic beer pong sessions and monster keg stands. It seemed like the good times at Superdive would never end; in fact, its proprietor promised the readers of Eater.com, more than a year ago, “SUPERDIVE will live forever… SUPERDIVE will never close… LONG LIVE SUPERDIVE!” More
Posted on November 29th, 2010 8:00am
This is the fourth in a five-part series called "The New York Vote," a partnership between WNYC and Capital New York. We will be painting a portrait of the New York electorate in 2010, as explained by a diverse cast of political players.
Today a look at how Mickey Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, became a believer in polling.
>> Watch the video and read the story here: A Professional Reader of Voters' Minds Discusses His 'Blunt Instrument' More
Posted on October 27th, 2010 8:02am
It is possible for members of the Astoria C.S.A. to avoid grocery stores for weeks at a time. The community-supported agriculture group, like the vast majority of C.S.A.s, offers vegetable shares, and it offers fruit shares, another common C.S.A. option. But it also offers a way to buy maple syrup, sliced sourdough bread, bacon, goat cheese, andouille sausage, whole chickens, leaf lard, bone marrow, freshly ground flour, and organically grown (and relatively fresh) beans More
Posted on October 6th, 2010 7:30am
If New York University had compromised with its neighbors back in 1965, Alicia Hurley’s office would have a less impressive view. Hurley, the university’s vice president for government affairs and community engagement, works from the top floor of Bobst Library, the massive red building on the south side of Washington Square Park, and her wide window looks out over the treetops and onto the Village, spread out below More
Posted on September 29th, 2010 8:55am
Since the beginning of 2010, the 10009 zip code has racked up more of the types of noise complaints linked to nightlife than any other area in the city, according to the city’s Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications, which collects data from 311 calls. (A second East Village zip code, which extends west from 1st Avenue to 5th Avenue, ranks fourth in that category.) More
Posted on June 29th, 2010 8:21am
Jodie Colón, according to the list of contributors to the NYC Compost Project’s Master Composter manual, “defines crazy for composting.”
This is literally true. Colón, a full-time compost educator at the New York Botanical Garden, actually designed a quiz to measure composting passion. Points are awarded for behavior like striking up a compost conversation with a stranger, bragging about compost, or knowing “too much” about earthworms’ anatomy, velocity and sex life. More
Posted on May 31st, 2010 9:34pm
avizenilman: @slaskow @AdrianeQ A lot of the annoying hype about "Girls" comes from Gen-X people trying to recapture their youth!
marcatracy: @slaskow I'm complaining at how unbelievably expensive it is. does that count?
