Tuesday Links
Boom Time for Hipster Bowling Alleys [NY Times] Sales Spur Optimism in Manhattan Real Estate [NY Times] E-Mail Hoax Raises Hopes of a Day Off [NY Times] Disabled Girl Left on Brooklyn Bus [NY Post] Goldstein Starts Thinking About a Back-Up Plan [NY Daily News] City Eyes Quick Fix for BQE [Brooklyn Paper] Lawsuit Looms…
Boom Time for Hipster Bowling Alleys [NY Times]
Sales Spur Optimism in Manhattan Real Estate [NY Times]
E-Mail Hoax Raises Hopes of a Day Off [NY Times]
Disabled Girl Left on Brooklyn Bus [NY Post]
Goldstein Starts Thinking About a Back-Up Plan [NY Daily News]
City Eyes Quick Fix for BQE [Brooklyn Paper]
Lawsuit Looms over Albee Square Housing [Brooklyn Eagle]
Goldstein Still Hangs Tough on Atlantic Yards [Brooklyn Eagle]
Two-Alarm Fire Rips Through Brooklyn Home [Brooklyn Eagle]
Hasidic Children Left Alone in City Playground [Gothamist]
Photo by petiteoiseau_noire.
I’m sure that Goldstein et al will wind up in Park Slope or Carroll Gardens, hardcore yuppies that they are.
I know I’m not the only one who will be thrilled to never see him in Prospect Heights again!
sadly i was convinced to be on a gay bowling league a few years ago with my ex and his friends. it sucked. it was at the bowlmore in the port authority. i guess they allowed leagues back then, but then they started with crazy rules. the biggest one was no headwear, i.e. no hats and dress code! wtf!? it’s a BOWLING alley!!! then you couldnt bring in your own food anymore and had to order their overpriced crap. then they got rid of mixed drinks? or maybe it was beer and only served mixed drinks? one of those, totally ridiculous. i quit in the middle of the season anyway as i was so bad at it and the last thing i wanted to be doing one night a week was bowling with like 100 other gays.
*rob*
Pete, I never knew there was a distinction. To me, it’s all one crappy road.
that is the Gowanus expressway part …not the BQE.
Pete, they need to work (they actually are, but it seems like they’ll never finish) on the stretch between Hamilton Ave and 39th St (Northbound)
don’t get your complaint about BQE – other than too much traffic. They just completed that whole section and seems quite good from Atlantic Avenue to end in Queens.
“In October, a 90,000-square-foot Bowlmor alley is set to open as the largest retail tenant in the former New York Times building on West 43rd Street. It will cost over $20 million.”
WTF?!?!?!?!
90,000 sq. ft. for a blowing alley!
“Bowlmor and the upscale alleys typically shun leagues. They don’t want guys who show up with bowling outfits and excessive stomachs and their own equipment and want to pay $1.95 a game.
“They want the cheapest, most miserable experience,†Mr. Shannon said. “I would describe it as a Stalinist experience.†At Bowlmor, games are generally $11 to $13.”
That is so wrong! F*ck Bowlmor. Not that I belong to a league or bowl often, but really the elitism is disgusting. Plus I hate kitschy crap like this. In this bowling alley they’re going to have a ‘Chinatown’ and a ‘celebrity chef’. ***GROAN***
The Hasidic community should hire the bike riders as teachers. They probably would be more responsible as they seem to be pro-active.
“City Eyes Quick Fix for BQE”
I got so excited when I read that ‘headline’ thinking finally something is gonna be done to fix that highway. BUT the story is about fixing the ‘ditch’.
Something needs to be done about the BQE, dammit!!