Thursday Links
Surprise: Most New Yorkers Say They Like the City [City Room] Niche Lawyers Spawning Housing Fracas [WSJ] Finalists Selected for Brooklyn Do Gooder Awards [NY Post] Women, Bystanders Shot Near Crown Heights Bus Stop [NY1] Dueling Rallies Over Prospect Park Bike Path [NY Daily News] Nabe Split Over Renaming Franklin Ave. ‘Panama Way’ [NY Daily…
Surprise: Most New Yorkers Say They Like the City [City Room]
Niche Lawyers Spawning Housing Fracas [WSJ]
Finalists Selected for Brooklyn Do Gooder Awards [NY Post]
Women, Bystanders Shot Near Crown Heights Bus Stop [NY1]
Dueling Rallies Over Prospect Park Bike Path [NY Daily News]
Nabe Split Over Renaming Franklin Ave. ‘Panama Way’ [NY Daily News]
Brooklyn’s Pumpkin is 502 Pounds! [NY Daily News]
After Three Year Fall, Architects Finding Work Again [Observer]
City Says No to Newtown Creek Kayaking [Brooklyn Paper]
First Edible Schoolyard Takes Root in Brooklyn [Brooklyn Eagle]
‘Hipster Express’ Rides from Brooklyn to DC [Brooklyn Eagle]
New York Ninth Hardest City to Pay Rent [Forbes]
thats the russian orthodox church in williamsburg on n11th and driggs, dibs.
Rob should visit the Bay Area if he wants to see barf. It’s like one big Park Slope except everyone is in tech and “the arts” means Burning Man.
Oh wait, Rob loves Park Slope.
I believe Ms. Wilson was being ironic. Her article was largely critical, and certainly made me want to avoid the store at all costs. It portrayed Barney’s as representing everything that many people move out of Manhattan to escape.
I knew you would be horrified, Rob. That’s why I posted it.
OK, San Jose No. 1. Were No. 2 and 3 also in the Bay Area? It’s all kind of one large metropolitan area, much like LA or NYC.
There is nothing sexy about looking impoverished.
no in San Fran. minimum wage is WAY higher.
and this.
“Brooklyn’s bourgeoisie may safely let its beard mat into felt and start shouting at passing cars: It knows where to shop to look sexily impoverished.” — Cintra Wilson on Barney’s in Brooklyn, NYT.
BARF x INFINITY.
*rob*
SF is no 3 or 4. San Jose is no. 1.
Is SF No. 1 on hardest to pay rent?
That’s not a mosque (or are you joking).
It’s a Church (probably Orthodox – is it the one at MacCarren Park?)
The crosses on the domes are a clue!