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Nasty Rain, Winds Continue Across Tri-State
The tri-state is halfway through a washout weekend, and while Sunday will be a bit better, overcast skies and rain will still be around to finish the weekend. "Sunday will be rainy, but not stormy," CBS 2 HD Meteorologist Giorgio Panetta said. "Winds will lighten up, and tides will begin...
LI Rainstorm Knocking Out Power, Flooding Streets
From debris to floodwaters, Long Island was hit hard by this weekend's rainstorm. Businesses on Freeport's Guy Lombardo Avenue became islands, and men with mops guarded front doors. Driving through Oceanside, the business district was dark, with merchants were losing money, and drivers losing their nerves, wishing they'd stayed home....
Rainstorm Leaves Thousands Without Power In NY
A gusting rainstorm has knocked out electricity to thousands of customers in New York. Utility company crews were working to restore power Saturday night to customers from Long Island to the northern suburbs of New York City. Consolidated Edison was reporting that more than 125,000 customers were out of power...
Jets, Giants Will Flip Coin For New Stadium Opener
The Jets say they will flip a coin with the Giants to determine which team will host the first regular-season game at the new Meadowlands Stadium. The teams will begin playing in their new 82,500-seat, $1.6 billion stadium this season, and both have campaigned to the NFL to play the...
Sim, Streit Strike To Lift Isles Over Devils
Jon Sim and Mark Streit scored 50 seconds apart in the second period against New Jersey backup goalie Yann Danis, and the New York Islanders snapped a four-game losing streak with a 4-2 victory over the Devils on Saturday night. With New Jersey playing for the third time in four...
Powerful Storm Knocks Out Power To 166,000 In NJ
A powerful rain storm blew across New Jersey on Saturday, ripping the tops of buildings, causing widespread train service suspension and knocking out power to at least 166,000 utility customers. High winds caused a crane collapse at a casino under construction in Atlantic City, leaving a city police officer injured....
Mommy Poppins - Get more out of NYC with kids
Deals, Discounts and Promotions: Free Frozen Yogurt, $2 Car rentals and 30% off Gap Denim
I've been posting a little bit lightly this week because I was under the weather. My family is a mess, actually. This week has been full of lice and vomit and in the middle of it all my daughter has been taking all her middle school entrance exams, but that's...
Free and Fun Weekend Events for NYC Kids - March 13 and 14, 2010
It’s the time of year that New Yorkers start to breathe a sigh of relief. We return to the streets, blinking in the long forgotten sun, happy to have made it through another cold and snowy winter. It is hard to believe that two weeks ago we were literally buried...
A Chocolate Birthday Party at Max Brenner's
Last week I wrote about last minute birthday party ideas, inspired by perhaps my most slacker mom moment—not having a party planned on the actual morning of my daughter's 10th birthday (Who am I kidding? Probably not even top 10). I wasn't stressed though, this is New York, limitless possibilities...
St Patrick's Day Parades, Events, and Activities for NYC Kids 2010
St. Patrick's Day often conjures up images of empty red cups and "Kiss Me I'm Irish" pins, but there are some family-friendly events for all to participate in, and it is still a great way to celebrate the culture. Since everyone is Irish on St. Patrick's Day, why not discover...
Circus Elephants Walk Across Manhattan March 22, 2010
Once again the Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus is heading into town and since the circus elephants can’t go up the Penn Station escalators, they need to get off the circus train a stop early in Queens and walk through the Mid-Town Tunnel, and straight across Manhattan to Madison...
10 FREE Kids Crafts Places in New York City
The great thing about crafts is that anyone can do them. all ages, year-round, in any weather, and you don't have to sign up for an expensive class. Not only is doing crafts fun for kids, but it's good for them too. If you read our recent post about sensory...
A VC
I cringed when I used the "2.0" term in the headline of this post, but I think it's useful. In the past year, when people ask me what I think is interesting in web technology, I often talk about emerging......
The Gotham Gal and I don't normally keep much cash in the bank. We like a portfolio of tax free municipal bonds for our cash that is not invested in venture deals, private companies, real estate, and the like. But......
Our portfolio company Foursquare turned one year old yesterday. They posted about their birthday on the company blog. It is stuff like this that makes startups so fun to be around: It was exactly a year ago when Naveen and......
Sorry for the inside baseball title, this post is not about net exercising options or warrants. It is about an exercise I've been going through since the beginning of the year. I've always walked around with hardly any money on......
Transitioning From One Job To Another
Mark Suster just keeps putting out great stuff on his blog. Last night he posted about the tricky issue of transitioning from one job to another. Mark writes the post from the perspective of the entrepreneur/executive hiring someone who is......
Lost City
The Rat-Squirrel House Is Getting Repaired, Maybe; Bloomberg Digs Brooklyn's Grave; Progress on Frankie & Johnnie's New Ground-Floor Bar; I Saw an Opossum and People Went Nuts; The SoHo Crocs Store Scrubbed Its New Home Too Clean; I Find the Most Untouched Block in SoHo; and New Lost City Carroll Gardens...
From Upstate Johnny G on the topic of urban opossums:Brooks, please get the truth out about 'possums. According to my vet, they are not prone to rabies. From wiki (where it has a footnote reference) "Opossums are about eight times less likely to carry rabies than wild dogs, and about...
Jackson Heights History in a Building
I like the look of this building on 37th Avenue in Jackson Heights, even if it does contain a Starbucks. It's so obviously different (white brick, not red), and of a different time (peaked roof, not flat). It reminds me of the sort of structure one finds on Main Street...
A fire ravaged the lovely little Montagure Wine & Spirits in Brooklyn Heights. [Brooklyn Paper]Another nail in the coffin of the dying Flower District. [Curbed]Old Ukrainian East Village shop to become Manhattan branch of the Brooklyn pizza shop run by the owner of P.J. Hanley's, the age-old Court Street bar....
On 81st Street, near Northern Boulevard, in Queens.What a beautiful and unusual neon hue. One of the very best liquor store signs I've ever seen.The store is old. Take a look at the blue tile on the facade below....
Bloomberg and Friends, Digging Brooklyn's Grave
Actually, its the groundbreaking ceremony for Atlantic Yards. But same difference.Take special notice of the bolts of vengeful white lightening streaming down from the angry skies, and the vipers leaping from the poisoned ground. Oh wait—those are streamers.Photo courtesy of The New York Times....
Gawker
Happy Daylight Saving Time: Prepare to Die Young, Commit Suicide, and Not Have Sex [Spring Forward]
Daylight saving time begins at 2AM, which only matters if you still own clocks that don't connect to the internet or have cellphones attached. (Technophobe.) Saving daylight means increased rates of heart attack, suicide, money loss, and sleeplessness. Thus, sexlessness. More » ...
Meet Jihad Jamie — the Other Islamic American Woman Who Plotted to Kill a Cartoonist [Breaking]
Jihad Jane had a friend. Meet Jihad Jamie, a 31-year-old Colorado mom named Jamie Paulin-Ramirez who is being held by police in Ireland for allegedly plotting to kill a Swedish cartoonist who had depicted the Prophet Mohammed. More » ...
Comment of the Day: Drunks Get Robbed and Sean Penn Horror Stories [We Read You]
Today we watched a reporter get banned from a Sean Penn event for asking about his "die screaming of rectal cancer" quote. This brought two more Penn confessionals. (One from Ravi!) Plus, a taxi scam that only happens to drunks. More » ...
NYT's David Carr Tells SXSW Panel He Gets Scooped by Gawker 'All the Time' [Immodest]
We're going to get big heads. First Rush Limbaugh unexpectedly says he loves us, now the New York Times' (excellent, not Rush Limbaugh-like at all) media columnist David Carr says we scoop him all the time. We'll take it, whether it's true or not. More » ...
'Me? Just Chilling...' [Pic Of The Day]
[ On the set of 30 Rock, Tina Fey phones it in. And thus concludes the bad pun portion of our day. Image via INF ] More » ...
David Paterson: "Things started to go wrong... [What He Said]
David Paterson: "Things started to go wrong the first day I was sworn in." ...
Savory Cities Blog
The last time we walked past 15 East, we had to do a double take. Was that Jean-Georges holding court at the sushi bar? In fact it was. We shouldn't have been too surprised. We'd heard that he likes to......
We were saddened yesterday to read the news that the TriBeCa landmark Chanterelle has closed for good. We were fortunate enough to dine there a number of years ago, before we'd started Savory, and had a wonderful, luxurious meal that......
New in NYC: Ron Suhanosky on Civetta
After the success of Sfoglia on Nantucket and then the Upper East Side [watch the video], Ron Suhanosky has returned to his downtown roots for his latest venture. Steps from nightspot Southside, Civetta, meaning "little owl" in Italian, is......
Get Down with the Sake Set Tomorrow Night at Webster Hall
The Joy of Sake returns to Webster Hall tomorrow night to showcase over 250 premium sakes and food from some of NYC's top Japanese restaurants. If you're eager to learn about sake you won't want to miss it. Sample the......
Dave Wondrich on the Manhattan Cocktail Classic
The Manhattan Cocktail Classic, New York City's first ever multi-day event celebrating the history, contemporary culture, and artful craft of the cocktail will take place on October 3rd and 4th. Part festival, part fête, part conference, part cocktail party,......
Meet the Masters at the Manhattan Cocktail Classic
New Yorkers have long believed that our fair city is the center of the universe. We've got arts, culture, amazing restaurants and some of the most groundbreaking and influential cocktail bars in the world. Why, then, hasn't there been a......
Baseball - NY Daily News
The Yankees' 'other' contenders
Three of the five pitchers competing for the Yankees' fifth starter spot were in action Saturday, but the race for the final slot on the rotation is as murky as ever. It includes Sergio Mitre, Alfredo Aceves and Chad Gaudin. ...
Galea could be facing charges in U.S.
Toronto Physician Tony Galea already faces four drug-related charges in his native Canada, and as federal agents continue their investigation, it appears that the sports medicine doctor could be charged with practicing medicine without a license in this country. ...
Lupica: A-Rod needs to answer Galea question
Here is the question that Alex Rodriguez will eventually have to answer, for the feds, for the Yankees, for Major League Baseball. It doesn't have to be the first question he is asked, but it is still one that requires not just an answer, but a straight one. ...
Hal: Plan is for Boss to be at opener in Bronx
Yankees co-chairman Hal Steinbrenner has told The Associated Press that "the plan" is for George Steinbrenner to attend Opening Day in the Bronx on April 13, when the Bombers will get their World Series rings. ...
Harper: Fernando should stand in for Beltran
The ball was hit to shallow center field, too shallow for a runner to score from third. Or so it seemed. However, Angel Pagan promptly showed again that his instincts for baseball never seem quite right, and offered reason to ask whether he should play center field in Carlos Beltran's...
The Mets continued to maintain dialogue with lefthanders Ron Mahay and Joe Beimel, as both free-agent relievers were expected to make decisions soon. ...
City Room
The Week in Pictures for March 12
Slide Show: Subjects include the Atlantic Yards groundbreaking ceremony, Lil Wayne's sentencing, and auditions for a reality show about the Russian population in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn....
Carriage Horses Have Their Day at City Hall
One bill before the City Council would replace the city's carriage horses with faux classic cars. Another would give the horses mandatory vacations and increase drivers' wages....
Suspect Held in Attack on Woman in Bar Bathroom
The police have a suspect in custody in the brutal assault and attempted rape on Thursday of a woman in the bathroom of the Social bar in Midtown. They say he is the same man caught on a surveillance video leaving the bar....
A Move to Protect Low-Wage Workers
Legislation before state lawmakers would increase penalties against employers who violate minimum-wage and overtime laws....
Cabbies Gouge Passengers Out of Millions, Agency Finds
For the past two years, thousands of taxi drivers overcharged passengers a total of more than $8 million by switching the meter to double the rate....
Limbo King Finds a New Home and an Old, Familiar Face
An unlikely reunion in an assisted-living home for an aging limbo king and one of his princesses....
New York News, New Jersey News, and Connecticut News, Weather, and Traffic -- 7online.com
Amtrak service between NY and Philly restored
Two of the four available tracks are in operation....
Wind and rain knock out power to thousands
Thousands of people are without power on Long Island with rain and wind pounding the island....
AccuWeather: Heavy rain & wind for New York area
A flood watch is in effect for the New York area through Sunday afternoon....
Trees falling on homes and cars, wet windy weather
Westchester County residents are experiencing power outages as well as trees falling on homes and cars due to the weather....
Constant rain causing problems in New York City
Rain caused downed power lines and utility poles across parts of New York City....
NJ getting soaked by another major storm
Weather-weary New Jerseyans were dealing with another major storm Saturday, though this one was dropping lots of rain instead of snow....
UPTOWNflavor
Friday Freestyle Flavor:Lauryn Hill-Everything is Everything Filed under: Uncategorized ...
Unreported partial building collapse
By Uptownflavor Photos. A building on the corner of 144th Street and Lenox Avenue suffered a partial roof collapse over the stormy weekend. The building housed a bodega, nail shop, and Jamaican restaurant on the lower level. The upper level was unoccupied and had for a rent sign in the window....
What’s happening on the Harlem food scene?
First the good news, Tea and Things of that Kind has opened! I’m not sure how long they have been open and they are a bit inconspicuous, but they are indeed open for business. You can visit them at 137th and Adam Clayton Powell Blvd. Heading west one avenue over, Charles’ Country...
Editor’s Note: So much trouble in the world
I know it has been a while since I have posted a note to the readers of Uptownflavor. Heck, it has been a while since I have posted anything to Uptownflavor. Just know that we are down but not out. A few set backs and time constraints have taken hold,...
Police Announce Parade Crackdown [CR] Counting Prisoners: The Population Politics of the Census [NYC] Appeal notice filed in closely-watched Harlem ILSA case [REALDEAL] Inside a Divided Upper East Side Public School: Whites in the front door, blacks in the back door[VOICE] Advocates Believe New York May Be Next to Legalize Medical Marijuana [[WNYC] Allies Turning...
Friday Freestyle Flavor: Chrisette Michele – Fragile ft. Wale
Shot under ViVa in Harlem Filed under: Freestyle, Video ...
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"Paolo Mastrangelo was recently listed as among those whose twitters are followed by the staff of The New York Times, rated right between Nicole Richie and Newt Gingrich. Wow, what Paolo says is more influential than the former Speaker of the House?" ...
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ArtsJournal: Daily Arts News
Needed: A Roadmap For Paul Taylor
"The current Taylor season at New York City Center ends on Sunday; it has offered a number of pieces so mysterious that I long for further disclosures. I like best of all getting to know Mr. Taylor's works by rewatching them in performance, but some are revived so seldom I...
Music Dying? The Facts Don't Buy It
"It is easier to make the case that the music industry, far from imploding, is one of the great success stories of the recession. Last year sales of singles soared to an all-time record of 152.7m units, an astonishing 33% rise in a year when the whole economy (GDP) contracted...
Report: UK Recording Industry Still Vital
The "report says that there are more than 4,000 artists on major record label rosters, with thousands more on independents. Around one in four of these artists were signed in the last 12 months. The report points out that, in the UK, record labels spend 23% of their total revenue...
Music's Carbon Footprint In The UK
"Each year the UK music industry is responsible for around 540,000 tonnes of greenhouse-gas emissions, according to researchers from the UK and US. Three-quarters of this is due to live music performances, while the rest is caused by music recording and publishing."......
Looking For Signs Of Art In Today's Iraq
"Sadly, the glories of Iraq's civilisation are displayed for a lonely few. Any hopes of a surge in cultural tourism have been quashed by the precarious security situation. There are far more people working at the museum - including a swarm of middle-age men smoking and chatting in the lobby...
Scanner Can Tell What You're Thinking
"British scientists from University College London found they could differentiate brain activity linked to different memories and thereby identify thought patterns by using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The evidence suggests researchers can tell which memory of a past event a person is recalling from the pattern of their brain...
NYDailyNews.com - Columnists: Entertainment
If there was a compelling reason to drag "Fanny" out of musical mothballs, it never materializes at City Center, where it runs through Sunday....
Whatever reluctance you might have to watch a two-hour movie on autism will vanish as Claire Danes draws you into the character of Temple Grandin....
Now that you know all the Oscar nominees, it's time to get busy. After all, you can't play along at home on March 7 unless you've seen everything in advance. Our suggestion: Make a weekend of it, and support some local arthouses at the same time....
With Fashion Week almost upon us again, we can use a lot of what we learned in the premiere of Kelly Cutrone's Bravo reality series, "Kell on Earth."...
Beginning with its cutesy-derivative title and ending with John Travolta's ugly American act, "From Paris, With Love" oozes immaturity. If it were the brash, inventive kind, that at least might be fun....
Everything changes ? except Sade. For over a quarter-century, the singer has sported the same look, employed the same band, recorded for the same label, and for the most part, kept the same sound: a lean, wan take on lounge-jazz that never loses its temper or its focus....
NYDailyNews.com - Hockey
A Rangers-Flyers game with bad blood and enduring grudges is nothing new, and never gets old. But given the peril in which the Rangers find their playoff hopes, how much can they afford to settle the kinds of scores that don't lead to points?...
Islanders blast Brodeur backup in win
There isn't enough room for a backup goaltender on the visiting bench at Nassau Coliseum, leaving Martin Brodeur to watch Saturday night from a chair in the runway leading to the Devils' dressing room....
Isles' Weight to undergo season-ending surgery
Islanders captain Doug Weight's NHL career is in doubt after he announced Saturday that he will undergo season-ending surgery to repair a torn labrum and rotator cuff in his left shoulder. The 39-year-old center initially suffered the injury in November....
Vinny Prospal scored a pair of goals and Marian Gaborik added one in the Rangers' three-goal first period from which they never looked back in a 5-2 victory over the Atlanta Thrashers. Gaborik and Chris Drury each had two assists....
With third-period goals from Andy Greene and Ilya Kovalchuk, the Devils held off the defending Stanley Cup champion Penguins, 3-1, in a physical game in front of a sellout crowd at the Rock in Newark Friday night....
Rangers' penalty kill losing steam
Go figure: For as lousy as the Rangers have been 4-on-4 this season one of their better traits has been their play at 4-on-5. But even that penalty-killing corps has been wobbly at the knees at the wrong time of year....
Yankees - NY Daily News
The Yankees' 'other' contenders
Three of the five pitchers competing for the Yankees' fifth starter spot were in action Saturday, but the race for the final slot on the rotation is as murky as ever. It includes Sergio Mitre, Alfredo Aceves and Chad Gaudin. ...
Lupica: A-Rod needs to answer Galea question
Here is the question that Alex Rodriguez will eventually have to answer, for the feds, for the Yankees, for Major League Baseball. It doesn't have to be the first question he is asked, but it is still one that requires not just an answer, but a straight one. ...
Hal: Plan is for Boss to be at opener in Bronx
Yankees co-chairman Hal Steinbrenner has told The Associated Press that "the plan" is for George Steinbrenner to attend Opening Day in the Bronx on April 13, when the Bombers will get their World Series rings. ...
Yankee stars Jeter, Mo on McNamee's witness list
The Yankees have never relished the destructive defamation suit former pinstripe hero Roger Clemens brought two years ago against his accuser, former Yankee trainer Brian McNamee, but bigger headaches for the club may yet lie ahead. ...
Modern Yankee Heroes: Mariano Rivera
To understand how Mariano Rivera developed into baseball royalty, how he became the pitcher with the mystifying cutter who has dominated for years yet remains humble to a fault, deeply religious, and who is revered by teammates and foes throughout baseball - you have to step back in time with...
Pettitte forced to keep it inside
Rain washed away the Yankees' game for the second straight day, forcing Andy Pettitte to follow A.J. Burnett's lead and throw a simulated game on an indoor mound Friday. Unlike Burnett, however, Pettitte had taken part in the same exercise five days earlier. ...
Runnin' Scared
Mbarek Lafrem, Accused Social Bar Attacker, Says He Was Defending HImself in the Woman's Bathroom
According to the News, construction worker Mbarek Lafrem, who is now charged with attempted murder, attempted sexual assault, and another attempted assault charge in the Thursday woman's room beat......
MTA Wants High-Speed Wireless Internet on Metro-North and LIRR Trains
According to the Post, the Metropolitan Transit Authority is asking for bids from service providers to make high-speed wireless internet available to riders on Metro-North and LIRR commuter trains......
Freddie Thompson, Accused Robber Who Escaped from Staten Island Court, Captured
Freddie Thompson, a convicted felon who faced 5 robbery charges in a Staten Island court on Wednesday, answered the bailiff's call for another defendant. The police officer who was supposed to che......
Yesterday Diana Taylor, a former state regulator better known in the local press for her relationship with our billionaire mayor, joined the list of local political celebrities being floated for a......
Danazja Monroe, 12, Missing in the Bronx
Police in the 44 Precinct are looking for information about Danazja Monroe, 12, of Anderson Ave in the Bronx. She was last seen at home yesterday. They describe her as 5'0 and 100 lbs, with hazel ......
Mbarek Lafrem Charged With Social Bar Beating
Construction worker Mbarek Lafrem, 30, of Pennsylvania, has been charged with assault and attempted sexual assault in a Thursday morning attack in a women's bathroom at Social Bar which left a Con......
Curbed NY
Open House Open Thread: What's a little rain to a...
What's a little rain to a serious hunter? If you're out and about in the New York City real estate market this weekend, let us know what you're seeing out there: crowd sizes, market conditions, great or gruesome finds, and,......
curbed marketplace: Sunday Open House Roundup
Time for this week's open house roundup from your friends at Curbed Marketplace. More where this came from in our Open House Calendars. And a reminder: sales listings are only $25 this month. Sunday Sales 265 Riverside Drive, 1BR,......
Corcoran Sunshine Spring Open House
Visit 12 of NYC's most desirable developments Saturday & Sunday, March 13-14, 11am-5pm Complete Event Guide [Corcoran Sunshine]...
Week in Review: Barclays Center Breaks Ground; 1182 Broadway Tenants Evicted
Click the image above to view the full photogallery. This week's top stories: Liveblogging the Barclays Center Groundbreaking!, Illegal Conversion Boots Tenants from 1182 Broadway, Another New Luxury Rental Tower Opens Its Doors, Theater Guru Wants Out of Soho's Celeb-Friendly......
CurbedWire: Waiting on Nolita Rehab; Evolution of the EV's Crazy Landlord
NOLITA—The boarded-up 244 Elizabeth is waiting on its rehab by the city and conversion to low-income co-ops, but a tipster says don't hold your breath: "Called the name on the permits at the city's office about if this is ever......
Linkage: Manhattan House Gets Snazzy Spa; Gowanus Cleanup Ideas
[A view of Brooklyn's Washington Avenue, by Curbed Photo Pool/Cran Burry] · Credit problems push back Times Square hotel redesign [Crain's] · A retrospective on a Bowery restaurant-turned-flophouse-turned-hotel [NYT] · Manhattan House gets a fancypants rooftop spa [Luxist] ·......