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• Assless Flaps: Times Square Will Not Be Defiled By Naked Buttocks

  Published: July 31, 2007, 2:50 pm

  Tags: Asses, Assless Flaps, Times Square

  In a compromise on the great Giant Ass Billboard Conflict of 2007, Toto Washlet [insert beloved Gawker sponsor boilerplate here] has compromised with Times Square Church, the site which was to house...

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• Old Kissers Neither Die Nor Fade Away

  Published: August 15, 2007, 10:28 am

  Tags: Photo Op, Military, Photos, Times Square

  as sailors descended on Times Square to kiss a bunch of girls dressed as nurses, as they've been doing — or at least as we totally feel like they've been doing — every year on this anniversary for more than a few years now. It was a stirring, patriotic moment — or else just a chance for people who've never met before to

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• The British Are Coming! And They Expect to be Disappointed!

  Published: August 17, 2007, 12:51 pm

  Tags: In Other News, Little Britain, Statue Of Liberty, Times Square

  the Statue of Liberty and Times Square are two of the most disappointing tourist attractions in the world. On a list of the top ten most boring spots, they fall behind the Eiffel Tower and the Mona Lisa, both in Paris. We imagine if they didn't inherently hate the French so much, the English would have ranked the two New York gems at the top

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• Three Punished for Deutsche Deaths

  Published: August 28, 2007, 9:54 am

  Tags: The Morning Line, 9 11, Albany, Darren Dopp, Deutsche Bank, Eliot Spitzer, Fashion Week, Fdny, Health, Music, Republicans, Retail, Subway, Taxis, Times Square

  rescue workers have twelve times the normal rate of asthma, with those who worked at ground zero on 9/11 and 9/12 and who didn’t wear masks hit worst, a new Health Department report finds. [NYDN] • The legendary Record Mart in the Times Square subway station, closed since 1991, is scheduled to reopen on October 1, stocking CDs and

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• Gossip: Very slight forward movement on a recent ...

  Published: August 29, 2007, 11:40 am

  Tags: Ben Widdicombe, Blind Items, Conde Nast, Gossip, Loving It In 4 Times Square

  Very slight forward movement on a recent blind item: Remember gossipboy Ben Widdicombe's "Which very senior Manhattan media executive looks like he might be about to go public with that office affair...

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• Old Pros: There Are Hookers On 42nd Street

  Published: September 6, 2007, 1:40 pm

  Tags: From The Mailbag, Metro, Old Pros, Prostitution, Times Square

  Yesterday we wondered if the prostitution industry still has a presence on 42nd Street. If one of our readers is to be believed, it does! Bonus seventies nostalgia included free!That giant hole on...

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• Peep Shows: The Last Live Nude Peepshow Girls In Manhattan

  Published: September 13, 2007, 12:50 pm

  Tags: Intern Sheila, Not Peep, Not Afraid To Be Servicey, Peep Shows, Porn, Times Square, Top

  When you hear "peep show" you probably think of video cubicles that reek of Pine-Sol and bleach (one person per booth, please!). Now, with the closure of The Playpen, looks like Manhattan has but...

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• Idiot's Guide to the Hudson Yards Building Bonanza

  Published: September 13, 2007, 11:43 am

  Tags: Manhattan Midtown West Times Square, Real Estate Development, Urban Planning

  The map of the day comes via the Real Deal, which details every major project and land buy near the Hudson Yards. Some we've already discussed, such as Extell's plans for Steven Holl's Towering S (#24) and the McSam Midtown West hotel empire (#11). All in all, a must read to get you up to speed on what will be the biggest construction pit in town.

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• CurbedWire: Farley Scaffold, Closet Shower, Luquer Rising, More

  Published: September 14, 2007, 6:30 pm

  Tags: Brooklyn Boerum Hill Cobble Hill Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn Park Slope, Curbedwire, Manhattan Inwood Washington Heights, Manhattan Midtown West Times Square

  [Photo courtesy of ryanharris73/flickr] MIDTOWN—We have more to report about scaffolding, but the one at the Farley Post Office is being taken down deliberately rather than collapsing. The reader who sends the photo of the de-scaffolding today also reported activity last October. He writes that "Nothing more came down for almost an entire

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• BREAKING CurbedWire: Scaffolding Collapse on 52nd Street

  Published: September 14, 2007, 4:25 pm

  Tags: Curbedwire, Manhattan Midtown West Times Square

  [Photo via aboutmattlaw/flickr] MIDTOWN—Scaffolding at a construction site has collapsed on 52nd Street between Seventh Avenue and Broadway, falling about 20 feet. There are reports of "helicopters and craziness." No word on injuries, but firefighters are searching the debris. Developing... · Scaffolding Collapses in Midtown [1010

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• When a Billion Dollars Feels Like a Throwback

  Published: September 19, 2007, 10:11 am

  Tags: Commercial Real Estate, Manhattan Midtown West Times Square

  Who cares about a Midtown office tower with a bunch of lawyers in it? Yes, while it's true that commercial real estate is usually boring enough to put a Shvo to sleep, the Observer's John Koblin gets us interested by focusing on the case of 1177 Sixth Avenue (right, via PropShark), 47 stories of granite across the street from Rockefeller Center.

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• Coen Brothers Un-Brooklyn the Heights

  Published: September 19, 2007, 5:03 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Brooklyn Heights, Chelsea, Greenpoint, Long Island City, Maspeth, Times Square, Williamsburg

  the mayor. [Queens Crap] Times Square: An old vaudeville theater turned porn emporium on Eighth and 44th will be torn down. [Postcards from Hell's Kitchen] Williamsburg: Uh, maybe somebody should shore up that scaffolding at 70 North 9th Street before it collapses and hurts someone. [Gowanus Lounge]

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• CurbedWire: Tower of Fun Does the LES, Free iPods at Mansfield, Fart Cloud Building Update

  Published: September 19, 2007, 6:45 pm

  Tags: Brooklyn Williamsburg, Curbedwire, Manhattan Lower East Side, Manhattan Midtown West Times Square

  by the triangle ("Straus Square") and the East Broadway subway station." Another tipster fills in some detail: "I even saw a live cop peer out the window and then lower the contraption as other of NY's finest approached the tower. From what I heard, there have been a few muggings and the like in and around the E. Broadway subway station."

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• Rumblings & Bumblings Responses: Glenwood Goes to Hell

  Published: September 21, 2007, 1:31 pm

  Tags: Manhattan Hell S Kitchen Clinton, Manhattan Midtown West Times Square, Manhattan Upper East Side, Manhattan Upper West Side Columbus Circle, Rumblings Bumblings

  Sorry for not getting this out yesterday, but a server meltdown had us moving in slow motion. Intel was a little scarce this week, too. 1) Hell's Kitchen: That "construction eyesore" on the the south side of 38th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues is a project of developer Glenwood, and will probably wind up as one of the company's rental towers.

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• Poon All Over Manhattan

  Published: September 21, 2007, 12:53 pm

  Tags: Architecture, Hotels, Manhattan, Manhattan Downtown, Manhattan Hell S Kitchen Clinton, Manhattan Midtown West Times Square, Real Estate Development

  its appearance just south of Times Square. This week, we were reminded of Poon again, with his troublesome new hotel going up on Watts Street. That's the blue metallic one above, hovering over Kool Bloo as it rises in Hudson Square. After visiting the Peter Poon Architects website, we just can't get Mr. Poon out of our minds. What

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