Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Bad to worse in Boston: Citgo Sign Catches Fire. #
David Galbraith: America's banks from a foreigner's perspective. #
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Friday, October 10, 2008
Eater's got the word on some real good restaurant doings in Nolita. #
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
My brother took a bunch of great photos last weekend in Maine, including the above and this terrifying Monarch Butterfly attack. (Also: Fenway on Sunday.) #
The Onion: Phish to reunite. What do you think? (Aside: Red Sox to ALCS! Phish reuniting! Seth, where are you? Further aside: though we do have this to give us hope.) #
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
Angels pitcher John Lackey, class act: "'[On Sunday] they scored on a pop fly they called a hit, which is a joke,' said Lackey, referring to a popup that was misplayed into three runs. '[On Monday], they score on a broken-bat ground ball and a fly ball anywhere else in America [except in Fenway Park]. And [Pedroia's] fist-pumping on second like he did something great.'" Have a great winter, John! #
Bill Simmons: "With Manny riding in the other limo, they started telling 'Manny Being Manny' stories, like how Manny routinely stuffed uncashed paychecks in the top shelf of his locker. Seems he rarely got around to cashing them. The checks were for $978,000 every two weeks during the season. (Big Papi knew the exact number because he made a team employee show him one.)" #
Curbed, no. 5 with a bullet. Congrats to Ben Leventhal & Others. #
Thursday, October 02, 2008
A-Rod Watch, Pity Poor Tom Brady Edition: "A-Rod was running around the clubhouse asking everyone, 'Are we gonna play? Are we rained out? Are we postponed?' Every few minutes he'd come around and ask his teammates—or anyone else who was around—the same thing." #
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Matt Harvey: "He's seen the inside of one of those new glass boxes recently—and loves the view. 'That's a beautiful building. I could just sit there and watch traffic all day. Who wouldn't want an apartment like that?'" #
NYC real estate industry adapting to bloggy times. #
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Annals of Plutocracy: "Gorbachev initiated plans for the new party, said Lebedev on his website, http://alex-lebedev.livejournal.com/141495.html." #
Having read (and loved) Lush Life and Oscar Wao over the summer, I find this almost too good to be true. Price: "I think the Lower East Side is the Star Wars bar. Everybody thinks it's a done deal and it's all yuppie. Man, that thing, I mean, there's more afterbirth than rebirth. You go half a block, and you're in China. You're not even in China, you're in Fujian Province. And then you go into the projects and you're in black-and-Hispanicsville. And then you go over here and you're in Orthodox Jewville. And then you got the kids that, it's like they're in Rent but they have credit cards. So they don't have to say, 'Ooh, light my candle.' They'll go to Restoration Hardware and buy a fucking lamp." #
Mashup alert: those into Twitter and Eater, do check this out. #
MediaPost: Bob Guccione Jr. v. Gaby Darbyshire. #
True Gotham: "This is truly the most bizarre environment that I have experienced in my 16 years in the Manhattan real estate industry." #
Monday, September 29, 2008
Stat for the day: Around 2,300 $3 million NYC townhouses. #
Friday, September 26, 2008
Wired Gadget Lab: "It's possible that Apple is taking so long to implement copy and paste not because it is difficult, but because Apple is reinventing it. Imagine a system-wide menu added to all applications which, instead of shuffling items off to a clipboard, lists all the places you can send that file (or text string)." Suck it, Leventhal. #
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Peak meat! David Chang: "The machinery that's pumped so much meat into our lives over the last half century was never built to last, and now it's breaking down big-time. Feed is more expensive. Gasoline is more expensive. Milk, rice, butter, corn--it's all going through the roof. And for the foreseeable future, it's not coming back down." [hat tip: Kottke] #
Dan Lyons: "The real kicker was when I ran into Owen Thomas of Valleywag after the panel and he told me where he and the uber-geeks were having dinner tonight after all of their glorious collaborative filtering and scouring of their trusted online networks—the Union Oyster House." #
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Twitter trending livestream of the day: #suspending. (Twitter Search is the single greatest source of breaking news amusement currently available on the internet.) #
Friday, September 19, 2008
Hey, look, I wore a suit. #
Carney: "For those of you still on Wall Street or wondering what to do next, I'll offer a four pieces of advice. Remember that we'll get through this mess we're in, and we'll have great stories to tell about it for the rest of our lives. Never work in a job that makes you miserable. Love your family, help your friends. Buy drinks for strangers." #
SoSH: "Boston will make its first visit to the new Yankee Stadium for games on Monday and Tuesday, May 4-5 to be followed by two weekend series in the Bronx, August 7-9 and September 25-27." You can never plan for this sort of thing too early. #
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Kind of feels like the dam is breaking this week. Only six more cycles to go! #
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
In this time of uncertainty, here's an economic explanation that actually makes sense. #
36 Cooper Square
Monday, September 15, 2008
Bless this mess: quite the entertaining Curbed comment thread. #
A-Rod watch: "I have a big pillow, I probably just slept on it the wrong way. It's never happened to me before, but it's quite painful." #
Friday, September 12, 2008
Patience and Steel. Sullivan has been an oasis of calm rationale this week. #
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Who would have thought, five years ago, the New New Museum would just fade to the background? Welcome to the Bowery, Lord Norman Foster! #
Life at Curbed just keeps getting wilder. #
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Mark Cuban, bringing the awesome at TechCrunch 50 conference: "Maybe I'm missing something, but that just sounded like the biggest bunch of bullshit I've ever heard in my life... Let me give you a suggestion, don't make it a mass application, make it a corporate application. Then all you have to do is find one kindred messed up soul in an organization and you can sell them anything." #
One measly photo from inside the 11 Spring makeover? Need more!! #
Tuesday, September 09, 2008
RedOctober3829: "This is why I watch baseball. These moments are like pure gold that stay with me throughout winter." Yup. #
Above, view from the 52nd Floor of Good Ol' 7 World Trade Center. NB impending doom.
Just back from press conference (on 52nd floor of 7 World Trade, natch) revealing new (shrunken!) design for Sept. 11 Memorial & Museum at WTC Site. Full reveal at Curbed. #
Team Curbed is fooling around with Yammer today. Sample updates thus far: "cleaning Yammer emails out of my inbox"; "Listening to Leventhal gripe about Yammer." #
Flickr photoset of the day: Greg wins Jeopardy. #
Monday, September 08, 2008
"All Alex Rodriguez has to do is average 22 home runs a year over the 10 years and he'll get his money. And because he'll hit 35 to 40, he'll have this thing done by the sixth year. My point was, I wanted to make $315 million, and I wanted the probability to be in the 90th percentile that he will do it." Oh what do you know, Boras actually negotiated full ARod contract. Color me shocked. [via the schadenfreudtastic NYYFans] #
High Line: getting planted. #
Lost Remote shares some thoughts on Curbed's new Marketplace & Quicklistings, too. #
Friday, September 05, 2008
Mark Cuban: "Is there a book out there called 'No One Has a Clue What Is Going On and the Whole World Is Guessing?'" #
Charlie Suisman, you rogue, almost sneaking a MUG redesign right past us. #
Racked is going to be having some Twitter fun during fashion week. Also, Leslie and Izzy are liveblogging from shows for the first time, which is kind of insane and awesome. #
The estimable Joel Burslem at FOREM has some nice words about Curbed's Quicklistings. #
Thursday, September 04, 2008
Curbed Marketplace Launches
Fall Party Watch, Guaranteed Rager Edition:
#I'd like to invite you personally to join [redact] members for an evening of real estate industry networking. These events are typically a good mix of people from across the industry, including developers, lenders, investors, attorneys, and architects. Whether your looking to find new clients or new opportunities, this event is a great way to kick off your efforts this fall.
Venue: Marquee, 289 Tenth Avenue, Manhattan
The Fall Begins
Signs you haven't posted to your blog in awhile: you do not recall the width for photos. (500px, for future reference. Above, final sunset of the summer from PNYC.)
Been a little sleepy around LS.com over the summer. But it's fall now. Let's do this. #
