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Tsk, Tsk: More Criticism of Beyoncé’s Moral Choices In a New York Times Op-Ed...
Oh, my! In an Op-Ed piece appearing in the last New York Times Sunday review Mark Bittman, food journalist and author and columnist for the Times has taken issue with Beyoncé Knowles’ morality for...
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National Notice Article About Bloomberg Equating New York Teachers Union With...
From the New York section of Monday's New York Times Readers of Noticing New York will know that in the context of covering real estate and development policy in the city I often provide contextual...
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Another “Times Effect”: The Times As Gatekeeper Of Populace’s Populous...
What’s most important in this world? What the New York Times pays attention to or what our multitudinous citizenry invests its time and energy in scrutinizing? Sometimes a Venn diagram would show...
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Andrea Fraser, Frank Gehry, Ada Louise Huxtable, Art, Artists, Urban Renewal,...
Andrea Fraser in center, from her performance art work that reacts to Frank Gehry mythos, on each side of her, Gehry's two proposed "Ms. Brooklyn" designs for Atlantic Yards, the first on the left and...
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Forest City Ratner Needs No Stinkin’ Badges To Rake In Cash From Unauthorized...
This is great. What we have here for you is a story from the Journal News in Yonkers about how Forest City Ratner was reportedly illegally collecting fairly appreciable money for a year and a half...
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October 1963, An Historical Snapshot: Ada Louise Huxtable, Jane Jacobs,...
One of Ada Louise Huxtable's first articles in the Fall of 1963 dealt with Jane Jacobs, car congestion in midtown Manhattan, density, the New Planning Commissioner and a whole lot moreBuckle your...
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Bloomberg’s Increasing Annual Wealth: 1996 to 2012 Plus Updates On His Annual...
How much will Bloomberg’s wealth go up? Bloomberg looks skyward.. . . .The image above is from the November 1, 2012 press conference when, with multiple counties in New York, New Jersey and...
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Sports Glummery: Goodbye To Professional Sports Teams Like Dem Dodgers Bums...
It’s front page news today. . .Many bemoan the Dodgers unceremoniously departure from Brooklyn, New York back in 1957, but the New York Times tells us that due to an impending deal with Time Warner...
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More On Jay-z And Beyoncé- Criticism of Beyoncé’s Morality In Lip Syncing . ....
The issues involved (do you know which ones?) were of national concern so I posted an article I've written to address the kerfuffle concerning Beyoncé’s lip syncing of the National Anthem after Obama's...
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Latest (Early) Update On Bloomberg’s “Charitable” Giving- A Preview Of 2013?...
Bloomberg looking skyward.. . . .The image above is from the November 1, 2012 press conference whenBloomberg made faces behind FEMA’s Secretary Napolitano, who was in New York to provide Superstorm...
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Haberman Interviews Kent Barwick: Grand Central Terminal As An Important...
Kent Barwick: From 2006 StreetsBlog InterviewI am very fond of Kent Barwick, former president of the Municipal Art Society (among many important roles) and highly appreciative of the extraordinary...
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New City-Wide Policy Makes Generation Of Real Estate Deals The Library...
Library Trustee meeting Tuesday night at Brooklyn Heights Library proposed to be sold to a developerDo we want a shrinking library system for a growing, wealthier city? . . . . . It’s what we are...
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City Strategy Of Withholding Basic City Services To Blackmail Public Into...
On right, Pacific branch library proposed to be closed to for the sake of real estate deals. This photo is from: Reflecting Pictorially, And Otherwise, On The Un-Truth And Consequence Of BP...
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What Could We Expect Forest City Ratner Would Do With Two Library Sites On...
As the result of a new city-wide policy making the generation of real estate deals the library system’s priority the city expects to be selling off sites to developers. See: Thursday, January 31,...
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Asked To Name Subway Station After Ed Koch MTA Says It Doesn’t Name Subway...
(click to enlarge) The poster we'd like to see in the Barclays subway stationsRep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan) is seeking to have the Lexington Avenue 77th Street Subway stop named after former...
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Libraries That Are Now Supposedly “Dilapidated” Were Just Renovated: And Are...
Foreground: The lion Patience , of Patience and Fortitude fame, in front of 42nd Street Research Library whose research stacks will be sacrificed. Background: Mid-Manhattan Library that will be sold...
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One-Stop Petition Shopping: Report On The Brooklyn Heights Association Annual...
Sent in by a NNY reader: The morning crowd waiting for the Brooklyn Heights downtown library to openThe Brooklyn Heights Association Annual Meeting was held Monday night and the big news of the night...
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Atlantic Yards Report Fine Tunes Calculation Of Mounting Land Subsidies For...
Bloomberg arriving to give his State of the City Address at the "Barclay" arenaMayor $25 Billion-and-counting-in-personal-wealth-since-entering-politics Bloomberg is visiting the piled-up pirate...
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Last Night’s Community Meeting To Save Long Island College Hospital- Pictures...
One segment of last night's crowd convened to save LICHLast night’s “Community Forum on the Future of Long Island College Hospital” (LICH), really a rally in support of saving the hospital with the...
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If Our Besieged Libraries Could Speak For Themselves: Maybe They Do! A...
Wall of Brooklyn Heights Library reading: All that come here to seek treasure will not take away gold but the seeker after truth and instruction will find that which will enrich the mind and...
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