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The Afternoon Wrap: Tuesday
A New York-based nonprofit created a video game called ICED to teach students about immigration laws. Each player chooses between five teens of different ethnicities and varying immigration status to...
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The Afternoon Wrap: Thursday
Even the shameless campaign to brand a neighborhood "So-Ya" is not going to make Yonkers cool. [Jeramiah's Vanishing New York] Will a two-acre vineyard in Staten Island transform New York’s most...
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The Afternoon Wrap: Friday
The Daily News and the Post both ran profiles of a bitter, bigoted Bay Ridge super who likes to write his (predominately Arab) tenants abusive notes with racial slurs. Creepier still, he has a doggie...
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The Afternoon Wrap: Monday
The Plaza Hotel re-opens this Saturday, welcoming the first official guests since its renovation, and charging $715 a night. [NewYorkology] The author of The Field Guide to the Natural World of New...
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The Afternoon Wrap: Wednesday
Now that Mercato 55 has piqued New Yorkers’ taste for African cuisine, Time Out has some suggestions for some off-the-beaten track (and cheaper) spots. [Time Out New York] Opponents of the Trump Soho...
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The Afternoon Wrap: Thursday
Racked’s new Like/Likely feature takes a look at all the mixed-use developments on the horizon in Williamsburg and weighs in on the future retail landscape. [Racked] The School of Visual Arts is buying...
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The Afternoon Wrap: Friday
Did you know that New York’s Ginkgo biloba trees are very interesting? Also, the gender differentiation of Ginkgo biloba ("the females produce fruit with a foul smelling fleshy cover") provides an odd...
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The Afternoon Wrap: Monday
The proprietor of Manhattan’s see-and-be-seen nightspot Beatrice Inn is tasked with transforming the home of a Howard Johnson’s hotel and a Holiday Inn in Atlantic City into a boutique hotel. [NY...
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The Afternoon Wrap: Tuesday
The bassist of indie rock band Team Robespierre gives a guided tour of his semi-legal, grungy East Village pad. [Village Voice] First, the Upper West Side gets a Magnolia Bakery; now a Shake Shack....
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The Afternoon Wrap: Wednesday
Forbes includes Lombardi’s, Zero Otto, and Naples 45 in its list of the best pizzerias in America. [Forbes] A Brooklyn bike enthusiast tries to move all her possessions to her new apartment by bike....
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The Afternoon Wrap: Thursday
Will a personal nuclear reactor be the latest luxury home amenity? It’s "super-safe, small, and simple;" can run for 30 years without refueling; and, rest assured, it doesn’t violate the nuclear...
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The Afternoon Wrap: Friday
Governor Spitzer makes plans to save Moynihan Station… and possibly his reputation. [City Room] The Park Slope mommy brigade debates the neighborhood’s equivalent in Baghdad. [Gowanus Lounge]...
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The Afternoon Wrap: Monday
Rising food prices are prompting some serious penny-pinching at restaurants across the country. Gramercy Tavern has replaced its caviar-topped hamachi appetizer with a beet-garnished tuna tartar, and...
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Federer, Sharapova and Fish Advance to Fourth Round
Roger Federer, Caroline Wozniacki and Maria Sharapova all advanced in straight sets despite the tough conditions. And Mardy Fish is beginning to go on a run like he did in 2008. He won in front of a...
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Rafa Wins and Says He's Getting Better
Rafael Nadal hasn’t dropped a set through three rounds of the Open and he’s looking more and more confident out there. He defeated Gilles Simon today 6-4, 6-4, 6-2. “Are you feeling better about this...
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