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Today's Fresh Blogs...| Cue the Violins in Park Slope and Kensington |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 4:01 pm |
| Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Coney Island, East Village, Jackson Heights, Kensington, Park Slope, Union Square, Williamsburg |
| [Gowanus Lounge] Union Square: Beware the hordes of student filmmakers in the park today. [The Weblicist of Manhattan] Williamsburg: White middle-class preservationists faced off against nonwhite low-income affordable-housing proponents at a hearing over the future use of the Domino sugar factory. [Brownstoner] |
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| From PJs to Condos in Fort Greene? |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 4:03 pm |
| Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Brooklyn Heights, Bushwick, Fort Greene, Long Island City, Red Hook, Union Square |
| one left. [Gowanus Lounge] Union Square: Smokers are reduced to sitting on garbage bags. The indignity! [Clean NYC Now] |
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| Danny Meyer, So Much To Answer For: Union Square, Ruined |
| Published: August 20, 2007, 2:05 pm |
| Tags: Danny Meyer So Much To Answer For, New York Times, Union Square |
| IN the taxonomy of New York City, the mere mention of a certain neighborhood conjures an image of its local tribe: the Williamsburg hipster. The meatpacking district club-goer. The Park Slope Earth... |
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| Golden Showers: Live near Union Square and need to make a ... |
| Published: August 24, 2007, 1:40 pm |
| Tags: Collegehumor, Golden Showers, Real Estate, Union Square |
| Live near Union Square and need to make a little extra cash? CollegeHumor jillionaire Zach Klein will slip you a crisp new Benjamin Franklin each month to use your shower and occasionally watch your... |
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| The Gays Have Found Forest Hills — or Maybe Not |
| Published: August 24, 2007, 4:01 pm |
| Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Boerum Hill, Chelsea, Forest Hills, Lower Manhattan, Union Square, West Village |
| TGIF indeed! [Curbed] Union Square: If you need $100 a month, why not let this Internet wunderkind hang out in your apartment sometimes? [Zach Klein] West Village: Gothamist gathers all the info on one of our New York real-estate obsessions, the Northern Dispensary Building. [Gothamist] |
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| Our Crumbling Infrastructure: Union Square Sucks |
| Published: September 4, 2007, 1:15 pm |
| Tags: Metro, Our Crumbling Infrastructure, Union Square |
| Two from the mailbag! "I live by Union Square and have been serenaded by helicopters (sounds like 3 or 4) for the past half hour or so - doesn't seem to be stopping any time soon. What the hell is... |
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| Our Crumbling Infrastructure: From the mailbag, regarding Union Square: ... |
| Published: September 4, 2007, 2:15 pm |
| Tags: Bill Clinton, Our Crumbling Infrastructure, Union Square |
| From the mailbag, regarding Union Square: "I think the helicopters might have something to do with Bill Clinton signing autographs down at the Barnes and Noble over there." Insert your own sinkhole... |
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| Learning From Our Fashion Elders in Union Square |
| Published: October 9, 2007, 6:55 pm |
| Tags: Video Look Book, Fashion, Union Square, Video |
| Sculptor and jewelry designer Gisela von Eicken is a hat person, but what she really loves is a flattering silhouette. New York’s Amy Larocca found Von Eicken near Union Square recently and learned an important truth: “When you’re 74, you can still be stylish.” Archives [Video Look Book] |
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| Making history at 'Irving Mill Restaurant' (Union Square, New York)? I will see on Monday |
| Published: October 14, 2007, 4:39 pm |
| Tags: New York, American Fare, Cooking, Food, Greenmarkets, Irving Mill, New Openings, Restaurants, Seasonal, Travel, Union Square |
| Not sure how many of the new arrivals on the New York restaurant scene will flourish but a plethora of them is set to open in the coming weeks. read more |
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| According to This Guy, We Should All Wear Suspenders |
| Published: October 17, 2007, 12:23 pm |
| Tags: Video Look Book, Fashion, Suspenders, Union Square, Video, Waiters |
| Painter and cater-waiter Mark Diruzza entered the Pratt Institute with a nose ring and a mohawk and now wears suspenders to class at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. Can Diruzza persuade you to forgo your belt for braces? He makes a compelling argument to New York’s Amy Larocca in this week’s Video Look Book. Video |
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| Tumblr: A blog is a blog is a blog except when it's not |
| Published: October 24, 2007, 7:22 pm |
| Tags: Andrew Parker, Jaiku, Pownce, Tumblr, Twitter, Union Square Ventures |
| explaining Union Square Ventures investment in Tumblr, Andrew Parker goes out of his way to distinguish the service from traditional blogs. But in explaining how Tumblr does not compete with Twitter, in which his firm has also invested, he makes it clear that, well, Tumblr is a blog -- while avoiding the b-word at all costs. Tumblr is a just |
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| Tumblr: A blog by any other name is still a blog |
| Published: October 24, 2007, 6:04 pm |
| Tags: Andrew Parker, Bloggers, Blogging For Dollars, Tumblr, Union Square Ventures |
| fragments. In justifying Union Square Ventures' investment in Tumblr, Parker says:... in the past 18 months I have been blogging, I've been surprised by how cumbersome writing a post can be. Expressing yourself on the Internet should be simpler. The tightly defined conventions and formality involved in maintaining and posting to a blog often |
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| Halloween Actually Scary for Once in Union Square |
| Published: November 1, 2007, 10:20 am |
| Tags: In Other News, Crime, Guns, Mcdonald S, Union Square |
| four Halloween revelers in Union Square early in the morning today. And one woman got stabbed. Fortunately, no one was fatally wounded. All of the victims were between 18 and 21, which basically means they were probably dressed-up NYU students with the munchies after a long night of frolicking. They woke up this morning at Bellevue Hospital |
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| Halloween Shoot-Out In Union Square [Crime] |
| Published: November 1, 2007, 9:30 am |
| Tags: Crime, Halloween, Shootings, Union Square |
| If you were downtown last night at 1 a.m., perhaps you noticed the insane volume of the siren of every emergency vehicle in the city converging on somewhere? Now we know that they were all headed to... |
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| Battery Park, Do We Need More of It? |
| Published: November 26, 2007, 3:45 pm |
| Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Battery Park City, Bedford Stuyvesant, Downtown Brooklyn, Greenpoint, Harlem, Long Island City, Smith Street, Union Square |
| say. [Second Avenue Sagas] Union Square: All the girls who are rallying against the hunky "Love Spammer," who seduces by asking directions on Sixth Avenue, don't seem to know if they're outraged or if they'd like to meet him again for sex. [New York Press via Gothamist] |
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