unable to come to terms with the landlord thor equities astroland instead will close up shop. this sunday will be the final day says coowner carol albert whose lease ends in january. my employees cannot live in a state of limbo any longer. it takes six months to pack up a threeacre amusement park that has been in operation for 46 years so a jan. 31 deadline means start packing yesterday. we are ou...
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theres a story id been itching to write about the democratic national convention ever since obamas astonishing and powerful speech there last week. i think some of it is in this new yorker piece by hendrik hertzberg but theres more to it.you will remember that the story going in to the convention was that of a party divided. the wounds of the democratic primary for some 27 of hillaryland remained ...
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did any of you read the new york observer piece about people and their email addresses if you missed it click here to read it. anyway theres a mention of certain people hmmm whose outdated email addresses are the online equivalent of mom jeans in other words if youre like me and stlll have an aol account youre hopelessly clueless a little while back my brother laughed when i told him i sti...
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radars web site landed alex balk then ab convinced choire sicha to jump onboard. whats next a redesign of course. last night we emailed radar to ask about traffic numbers since sichas arrival. instead of getting any hard facts we learned about the upcoming changes in david chos response. he wrote that theres a site redesign in the works thats focused on having a more clear information hierarch...
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we mentioned earlier the construction boom on roosevelt island. now the new york observer has noticed some of the fallout stresses on the islands exceedingly modest transportation system. the tram train and bus are getting very crowded average weekday ridership at the f train stop has increased by over 60 percent in 10 years. things are expected to get worse when they start renovating the tram in ...
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heres some of the reaction to gop vice presidential candidate sarah palins speech last night and the video of it if you missed it. she introduced herself as just your average hockey mom and jump started john mccains final push for the white house which starts tonight with his speech. palin was feisty and confident in part because its quite different being governor of alaska. she also went of...
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number of comments 0we continue of series reviewing the remarks of senator obama at the democratic national convention.but the records clear john mccain has voted with george bush ninetypercent of the time. senator mccain likes to talk about judgment butreally what does it say about .........
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bad news in thursdays new york times the new york sun reportedly needs millions in new investment to avoid closing at monthend. the sun is far from my favorite new york paper that nod would go to the times and the observer but the nose dive that .........
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via the observer we learn that the new york sun is pulling an oral roberts and threatening to leave the temporal plane if it does not get money possibly by late september. in a message to its readers today after bragging about how great the sun is even david remnick likes it and about how much its ad revenues have increased over the past few years editor seth lipsky announces that the sun has ye...
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i mean just the conservative elites ... its actually an intellectual blockage ... that keeps them from supporting this stuff. that is national review editor ramesh ponnuru enlightening todays observer as to why conservative lobbyists dont promote his progrowth profamily tax initiatives but why dont we just get hacky and apply it to another sad development for thinking conservatives broken today by...
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the new york post reports that local broadsheet the new york sun is doomed. their investors have lost money for more than 6 years on what was always basically a vanity paper for rightleaning ultrahawkish proisrael new yorkers and theyve given founder seth lipsky a month to line up new funders. the sun will reportedly announce somethingthe endon their website in just a minute. leaving aside their i...
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last week he found himself in the middle of an angry mob of protestors with some choice words for fox news. this week he was back at it. the new york observers felix gillette followed jenkins for a day of work where he interviewed everyone from angry anarchists to cigarpuffing partygoers. an example of the day eventually mr. jenkins extricated himself from the crowd and managed to conduct an...
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paul newell one of the young challengers to sheldon silver for his assembly seat luke henry is the other made a shocking announcement yesterday he raised much more than silver 40015 vs. 19575 in the most recent filing period. most of these silver donations his campaign points out come from small individual contributors whereas silvers come mostly from pacs and lobbyists. among these the newellit...
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finally a place where hollywood conservatives can have their say. andrew breitbart the friendly half of the drudge report link machine is about to launch what we can only describe as sort of the conservative mirror of the original idea for huffington post the one what was quickly abandoned. his new venture will supposedly become a destination site for hollywood conservatives like jeanclaude van da...
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galleycat is known for dishing out prescriptive commentary on the publishing industrys doings but it can still feel weird to see the real journalists who cover the book biz for print media doing itlike leon neyfakhs article in this weeks ny observer about the industrys refusal to break up short story collections and anthologies. neyfakh notes that commercial publishers have long believed that the ...
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more dancing on coney island boardwalk. photo by lornagrl. red hook parking rules suspended monday ny times new woes for arab academy ny post housing authority cuts affect seniors and youth ny daily news down to the wire for coneys astroland park brooklyn eagle sixteen months and counting ny observer west nile virus high in brooklyn brooklyn courier......
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sheldon silver assembly challenger paul newell has been getting strong assistance from elizabeth crothers the former assembly aide whose rape accusations against silvers former chief counsel which accusations a previously unsympathetic silver was later forced to acknowledge have been frequently revisited during the campaign. a mailer crothers sent out yesterday reiterating her charges was also ...
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the vetting of sarah palin continues. as mayor of wasilla she hired steven silver. silver was a client of jack abramoff at greenberg traurig then was chiefofstaff for ted stevens. talking points memo the vetting of anybody that has ever laid eyes on sarah palin continues. in todays crosshairs is thomas van flein the lawyer palin retained to help her with the ethics investigation involving her in...
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boom. photo by meghannmarco. gowanus whole foods sort of marches on gl scottish bathroom emulates brooklyn subway curbed taking on the brownsville dynasty gotham gazette nyc waterfalls hours cut in half brooklyn heights blog a bit of brooklyn in a glasgow bathroom reclaimed home bensonhurst little italy to little odessa to chinatown ny observer......
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the crack observers over at our favorite pink website have taken note of something truly baffling. vogue hair nazi anna wintour wore the same exact blue dress omg three times this summer. and a green version of the dress once we think this is truly a powerful sign of something with potential consequences for commodity prices and tropical depression hanna and ovulation cycles throughout the wasilla...
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it is not news that the publishing industry is in flux and in dire need of some new directions and definitions. it is not news that there will be more changes more angst more doom more gloom and so on and so forth. what might be news is that the teethgnashing starts and stops gives way to cosmetic changes that seem to accomplish something or other and then a year later when it doesnt people forget...
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roosevelt island real estate is hot reports the new york observer. the sparselypopulated island has seen 1331 new apartments since 2000 with 1160 more expected by 2013. even the old insane asylum now boasts luxury rentals. developer david kramer bids you hurry take advantage of wontlast low prices and thicken the ri herd the local starbucks he says isnt crowded enough. come for the cheap units sta...
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if mayor michael bloomberg buys the new york times this may have been the genesis a game of telephone started by those two inveterate gossips media mogul rupert murdoch and his biographer michael wolff.......
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schools back in session and you know what that means a local politics story. the new york times the sun and wabc all have a look at mayoral accountability for school success a 501c4 nonprofit like the aarp the nra and moveon.org heavily influenced by bloomberg official who want the mayor to retain the power over local schools he won in 2002. the mayors power grab won favor in early days especial...
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the new york observers tom mcgeveran reports on the strange convention in the shadow of hurricane gustav. included on the observers blog is a picture of the giant television screen that greets you as you enter the perimeter. the screen belongs to fox news and is located outside their large tent. we hear there were huge gatherings outside the screen today as people in st. paul checked out the...
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