February 2010
10 posts
“resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.”
– zadie smith
Bloomberg, Quinn Don't Care About Mets Fans
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn took to the podium today in City Hall to give her State of the City address.
She spent the majority of it sympathizing with the over 9% of unemployed New Yorkers, outlining her plans for job creation over the next few years.
But a throwaway line, while detailing a testing program that will allow tech companies to test their new products in the City, showed...
"...bittersweet reminders of a place that seems to...
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/03/nyregion/neighborhood-report-rockaway-publisher-builds-home-for-lost-soul-rockaway.html
That’s how it is in Rockaway, a New York world apart, where everyone seems to know everyone else or at least punched them once in a bar.
new york magazine
Despite my diligence, some editors failed to take me seriously those first months at the Herald. I thought I knew why: Something was missing.
I threatened to buy one at an adult store and display it in a flowerpot on my desk.
-Edna Buchanan, Nobody Loves A Police Reporter
In New York today, the face of the city, Manhattan, is proud and glittering. But Manhattan is not the city. New York really is a sprawl of neighborhoods, which pile into one another. And it is down in the neighborhoods, down in the schools that are in the neighborhoods, where this city is cut and slashed and bleeding from someplace deep inside. The South Bronx is gone. East New York and...
Flashback: A Decade
I was thinking this morning about my Presidents Day “teen night” experience at Club Metropolis, which was located across Flushing Bay from Shea Stadium. I felt so fucking cool because I convinced my parents (how, i will never know) to let me not just go to this shade-ball club but actually come home at 3am (after we worked out car pickups with Amy Rutter’s dad). For $20, there...
