Malcolm Gladwell: Big Hair, Big Feet, Big Heart?

Published: December 14, 2007, 3:05 pm

Tags: neighborhood watch, bushwick, david byrne, east harlem, greenwich village, harlem, malcolm gladwell, roosevelt island, times square, upper east side

Upper East Side: Malcolm Gladwell revealed his big feet, gesticulated intensely, said people shouldn't be allowed to say where they went to college, and stole bloggery hearts at the 92nd St. Y the other night. [UES Informer] Bushwick: Now the hipsters are staging Punk Rock Pillow Fights. Will their crazy, ironic, lo-fi fun ever stop? [Brooklyn Rink via the vaguely anti-Semitic BushwickBK] East Harlem: A principal at a high school here sent teachers a memo telling them to dumb down their standards for the kids. Uh-huh. [NYDN] Harlem: Amid its massive, seventeen-acre expansion in the hood's west side, Columbia says it won't tear down the Cotton Club on 125th after all. That's Christian of them. [NYP]Roosevelt Island: Looks like you Islanders will finally be getting a ferry soon. Such bland news from a bland place that we have no more to say on the matter. [Roosevelt Islander] Times Square: There is something sweetly, strangely eighth-grade book report about this (interminable) post

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