The Monday List: Memorial Day
Updated: 2010-05-31 18:23:36
BROOKLYN MEMORIAL DAY PARADE
The 143rd Kings County Memorial Day Parade, the nation’s oldest continuously run Memorial Day parade begins at 11am on Monday, May 31 in Bay Ridge on 91st Street and Third Avenue and travels along Third Avenue to Marine Avenue, up to Fourth Avenue and concluding in John Paul Jones Park on 101st [...]
Yesterday I went into the brand new Cafe Martin on Park Slope’s Fifth Avenue between 4th and 5th Streets. And a lovely place it is run by two Irish gentlemen, one of whom is the barista Martin O’Connell, formerly of Cafe Regular on 11th Street.
It was great to see Martin, wearing his signature blue striped [...]
Hi. My name if Rutherford B. Trace, and I’m the new editor of this weblog. I beg pardon from the ongoing series Frederick Douglass In Brooklyn, which I will soon continue, to implore, beseech, encourage and even— in some cases— command all ya’ll who can get near Grand Army Plaza Tuesday June 1 to see the Internets [...]
, PriceChopper Gwathmey-Designed Apartment Now Nearly 45 Percent Off Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 2 new posts Eater NY 25 new posts Racked NY 19 new posts hamptons 2 new posts MARKETPLACE Monday , May 31, 2010 Upper East Side , 1.325M Monday , May 31, 2010, by Curbed Network Listings Upper East Side , 1.325M 2 BR , 2.5 BA Co-op Asking : 1,325,000 Quiet and Private 850 Park Avenue , 1DR Stribling QuickListings are paid advertisements from trusted Curbed . advertisers Curbed aims to make all advertising on the site as valuable and relevant as possible to our readers , and as part of this , Curbed allows trusted advertisers to pay to promote their listings in the blog flow . All sponsored posts on Curbed , including QuickListings , are identified as such and carry a light
Thursday, June 10th at 8PM, Brooklyn Reading Works presents People Make Mistakes curated by Martha Southgate. Lauren Grodstein, author of A Friend of the Family, Danielle Evans, author of the upcoming short story collection Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, and Martha Southgate, author of Third Girl From the Left will read.
Brooklyn Reading Works [...]
PriceChopper Gwathmey-Designed Apartment Now Nearly 45 Percent Off Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 25 new posts Eater NY 25 new posts Racked NY 21 new posts hamptons 2 new posts MARKETPLACE Friday , May 28, 2010 CurbedWire Coney Island's Luna Park Opens for the Season Tomorrow Friday , May 28, 2010, by Sara Via Curbed Photo Pool Rubys Host CONEY ISLAND We're wrapping up early for the long weekend , but we haven't forgotten that Coney Island Astroland replacement Luna Park opens for the season tomorrow . Above , a test run for the Swing Ride . City bigwigs gathered for a ribbon-cutting ceremony today , at which Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz announced We don't have to invent our freakishness . We don't have to import characters to Brooklyn . Only the rides ,
PriceChopper Gwathmey-Designed Apartment Now Nearly 45 Percent Off Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 25 new posts Eater NY 25 new posts Racked NY 21 new posts hamptons 2 new posts MARKETPLACE Friday , May 28, 2010 Real Estate Sold Village Green Condos Still Selling Close to Asking Prices Friday , May 28, 2010, by Sara Ever since we first labeled eco-minded East Village condo Village Green a success story for overcoming its bust-era origins , we've been checking back to see whether the closed sales bear out that prediction . Last we checked , two units had closed both at 8 percent off . Another eight closings have hit public record since then , with the steepest discount being 13.5 percent off at unit 5D which sold for 995,000. But most discounts were smaller , hovering around
PriceChopper Gwathmey-Designed Apartment Now Nearly 45 Percent Off Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 25 new posts Eater NY 25 new posts Racked NY 21 new posts hamptons 2 new posts MARKETPLACE Friday , May 28, 2010 PriceChopper Gwathmey-Designed Apartment Now Nearly 45 Percent Off Friday , May 28, 2010, by Sara We hate to put our usual bloody axe over this apartment at 240 Centre Street but we can't avoid the ugly truth : the place did get PriceChopped this week , from 19.95 million to 16.75 million a 16 percent cut . Of course , that's nothing to the long-term choppage this place has seen . It first came on the market asking 30 million in May 2008, bringing it dangerously close to PriceChopper Hall of Fame territory here . The increasingly desperate seller is ex-Bear Stearns
: PriceChopper Gwathmey-Designed Apartment Now Nearly 45 Percent Off Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 25 new posts Eater NY 25 new posts Racked NY 21 new posts hamptons 2 new posts MARKETPLACE Friday , May 28, 2010 Recaps Selling New York : Putting the Dome' in Domesticity Friday , May 28, 2010, by Joey Last night was another episode of Selling New York HGTV's reality show following Manhattan brokerages CORE and Gumley Haft Kleier as they try to sell fabulous properties fabulously . Here , our recap of how the NYC real estate industry is portrayed to the world . This week's SNY was all about babies It was up to GHK broker Sabrina Kleier Morgenstern to squire around an expecting couple who were initially drawn to the kidville that is the Upper East Side , but soon realize
PriceChopper Gwathmey-Designed Apartment Now Nearly 45 Percent Off Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 25 new posts Eater NY 25 new posts Racked NY 21 new posts hamptons 2 new posts MARKETPLACE Friday , May 28, 2010 Construction Accidents Construction Worker Falls to His Death at Clinton Hill Site Friday , May 28, 2010, by Sara The construction foreman on a Brooklyn project fell to his death yesterday afternoon , The Daily News reports . Luis Zaruma fell from the fifth floor of an under-construction residential project on Bedford Avenue in Clinton Hill . A tipster tells us the project in question was 892 Bedford Avenue seen in the Google Street view shot at right and Brooklyn 11211 agrees . A Department of Buildings complaint filed yesterday for 892 Bedford says a construction
PriceChopper Gwathmey-Designed Apartment Now Nearly 45 Percent Off Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 25 new posts Eater NY 25 new posts Racked NY 21 new posts hamptons 2 new posts MARKETPLACE Friday , May 28, 2010 On the Market Scuba-Diving Film Producers List 3.1M Park Slope Brownstone Friday , May 28, 2010, by Sara We've been enjoying our townhouses with a bit of an aquatic theme lately , and here's another : 144 Lincoln Place which recently hit the market asking 3.1 million So where's the water The Times getting a jump on the holiday weekend with some Sunday real estate stories up early , reports the place is owned by Chris Kentis and Laura Lau , the team responsible for the 2003 movie Open Water about a couple left behind by their scuba-diving group and forced to face
PriceChopper Gwathmey-Designed Apartment Now Nearly 45 Percent Off Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 25 new posts Eater NY 25 new posts Racked NY 21 new posts hamptons 2 new posts MARKETPLACE Friday , May 28, 2010 Linkage Manhattan Map Getting Wider New Buildings Far From Parks Friday , May 28, 2010, by Sara Via Curbed Photo Pool Tim Schreier Manhattan getting 30 percent bigger in new subway map NYT Where to find NYC's best cell phone reception : the Lincoln Tunnel WSJ Try to take a photo of Ponzi schemer's building , get punched by doorman NYDN State parks will stay open for Memorial Day weekend NYP Only 70 percent of new Manhattan development within a quarter-mile of a park NYT Universal Studios rebuilds fake Manhattan in Los Angeles NYDN Actress Connie Stevens sells Park
Celebrity Real Estate Inside Daniel Craig's New Tribeca Pied-a-Terre Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 27 new posts Eater NY 22 new posts Racked NY 16 new posts hamptons 0 new posts MARKETPLACE Thursday , May 27, 2010 CurbedWire Edge's Affordable Rentals Open Cooper Union Building Honored Thursday , May 27, 2010, by Joey WILLIAMSBURG Politicos like City Planning commish Amanda Burden and HPD commish Rafael E . Cestero gathered to cut the ribbon on the Williamsburg Community Apartments which is the name of the 347-unit affordable housing portion of Edge The former ghost town along Kent Avenue is the largest inclusionary zoning project to open to date , and a rather chipper Burden commented , This important development epitomizes many of the goals of the Greenpoint
Celebrity Real Estate Inside Daniel Craig's New Tribeca Pied-a-Terre Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 27 new posts Eater NY 22 new posts Racked NY 16 new posts hamptons 0 new posts MARKETPLACE Thursday , May 27, 2010 Linkage Slumlord Turns Himself in Workers Back at Stalled Site More Thursday , May 27, 2010, by Sara More angry New Yorker sidewalk art , via Runnin' Scared Slumlord turns himself in after arrest warrant Village Voice New public art project plans to give people working keys to the city PSFK Other celebs who should join their local community boards DNAinfo FSBO columnists try out a broker Ruh-roh BU Some Williamsburg building post-abandonment destructoporn Nathan Kensinger Workers on the scene again at stop-work-ordered 100 Third Avenue EVG The newest set of
"Tour de Verre has a shape and style to it. This is a boring bunch of boxes w/ vertical stripes. I wish it looked more like Foster's elegant 610 Lexington and make it a true super-needle."NYC architect [Another Look at Carnegie 57, the New Monster of Midtown]
: Celebrity Real Estate Inside Daniel Craig's New Tribeca Pied-a-Terre Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 27 new posts Eater NY 22 new posts Racked NY 16 new posts hamptons 0 new posts MARKETPLACE Thursday , May 27, 2010 PriceSpotter Big Reveal : Pricing a Taste of Downtown on the Upper East Side Thursday , May 27, 2010, by Joey And now , the results of this week's PriceSpotter asking price guessing game Location 360 East 88th Street 2D Asking 1,995,000 Our magazine-featured , Tribeca-inspired duplex turned out to be in the Leighton House a sliver tower in Yorkville . It didn't fool many PriceSpotters , as a pair of folks correctly guessed the asking price . Do click back over for some entertaining conversation about the floorplan . So we guess the logical next question is :
Celebrity Real Estate Inside Daniel Craig's New Tribeca Pied-a-Terre Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 27 new posts Eater NY 22 new posts Racked NY 16 new posts hamptons 0 new posts MARKETPLACE Thursday , May 27, 2010 What's Cookin' Soho Loft's Kitchen Gets Lost in Harlem Thursday , May 27, 2010, by Joey What's cooler than being cool This kitchen , which we're becoming more obsessed with the longer we're exposed to its icy blue stare . Adding to the intrigue is that it looks nothing like the rest of the apartment , a triplex on top of three commercial floors at 2280 Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard in Harlem at 134th Street The whole building is for sale for 2.15 million . Or 2 million . Or maybe it's 1.85 million No matter which active listing you pick , it's still cheaper than
Celebrity Real Estate Inside Daniel Craig's New Tribeca Pied-a-Terre Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 27 new posts Eater NY 22 new posts Racked NY 16 new posts hamptons 0 new posts MARKETPLACE Thursday , May 27, 2010 Real Estate Sold Human Gondola Sells Upper East Side Townhouse Thursday , May 27, 2010, by Sara Human gondolas . They're like , you know , when a guy . dresses like a gondola . to raise money for crumbling Venice landmarks . Anyway , Randolph Guthrie used to be one , and so did his wife Beatrice . They housed an organization called Save Venicewhich holds an annual masked ball where people dress as gondolas to raise money for Venetian artwork and buildings destroyed by floodingin their townhouse at 15 East 74th Street But they listed the place for 19.5 million
. Celebrity Real Estate Inside Daniel Craig's New Tribeca Pied-a-Terre Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 27 new posts Eater NY 22 new posts Racked NY 16 new posts hamptons 0 new posts MARKETPLACE Thursday , May 27, 2010 On the Racked Brits Take Columbus Ave . Bleecker Street Oldtimers Vanish More Thursday , May 27, 2010, by Joey And now , the latest from Racked NY covering shopping and retail from the sidewalks . up 1 Upper West Side Quietly in the night , like an invading army of Red Coats , Burberry Brit opened on Columbus Avenue . The slick boutique is right next to Uggs , meaning we can expect a good Aussie-on-Brit brawl any second . now 2 West Village The great Bleecker Street die-off continues with the passing of antiques store Leo Design , which shares a block with the
, , Celebrity Real Estate Inside Daniel Craig's New Tribeca Pied-a-Terre Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 27 new posts Eater NY 22 new posts Racked NY 16 new posts hamptons 0 new posts MARKETPLACE Thursday , May 27, 2010 Development Update-o-rama Murano , LIC's Odd New Light Show Building , Hits the Market Thursday , May 27, 2010, by Joey The first of Long Island City's newborn triplets is showing its hand early . Though Murano which just to remind you will have a nightly multicolor LED show and a moat , is having its grand opening party and first open house next week , some listings have trickled online . Whats the damage Well , to compare the glassy new Borden Avenue building to other recent additions to the LIC market , Murano looks a touch more expensive than L Haus and
Celebrity Real Estate Inside Daniel Craig's New Tribeca Pied-a-Terre Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 27 new posts Eater NY 22 new posts Racked NY 16 new posts hamptons 0 new posts MARKETPLACE Thursday , May 27, 2010 Reader Rant Battery Park City Parent Vows to Break Park Rules Thursday , May 27, 2010, by Joey Like other new parks or park-like things CaVaLa the High Line etc . Battery Park City's Teardrop Park South has a fun water feature that on a hot afternoon can prove very tempting . So what happens when poor , innocent , overheating children with few publicly accessible swimming pools try to take advantage of this new neighborhood amenity : This Went to the new Teardrop Park South yesterday with my kids . Super tiny space , but the water features are pretty awesome .
: Celebrity Real Estate Inside Daniel Craig's New Tribeca Pied-a-Terre Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 30 new posts Eater NY 23 new posts Racked NY 16 new posts hamptons 1 new post MARKETPLACE Thursday , May 27, 2010 sponsored post The Brooklyner : Brooklyn's Tallest Tower Leasing High-Floor Units Thursday , May 27, 2010, by Joshua Now the tallest building in the borough , The Brooklyner offers studio , 1 2 bedroom rental apartments with stellar views of the city , harbor , rivers and beyond . The tower is located in Downtown Brooklyn , a new residential neighborhood that lies at the core of Brooklyn Heights , DUMBO , Fort Greene , Boerum Hill , Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens . Nearly every subway line is accessible within 3 blocks . Select building features include a
Celebrity Real Estate Inside Daniel Craig's New Tribeca Pied-a-Terre Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 30 new posts Eater NY 23 new posts Racked NY 16 new posts hamptons 1 new post MARKETPLACE Thursday , May 27, 2010 Architectural Craziness First Set of Balls Meets LIC's New Pole Dance Thursday , May 27, 2010, by Joey Photos via Archpaper . One of the best architecture stunts of the summer is SO-IL's Pole Dance the winner of this year's Young Architects Program put on by Long Island City art museum P.S . 1. The museum's courtyard will host 100 flexible fiberglass rods supporting a huge net holding up dozens of bouncy balls , because , well , why not Matt Chaban over at the Archpaper snapped some spy shots of the installation just stuffing a dollar in a museum curator's
Celebrity Real Estate Inside Daniel Craig's New Tribeca Pied-a-Terre Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 30 new posts Eater NY 23 new posts Racked NY 16 new posts hamptons 1 new post MARKETPLACE Thursday , May 27, 2010 Rent Wars Upper East Side School Gears Up for Another Eviction Battle Thursday , May 27, 2010, by Sara The Upper East Side's posh Brearley School appeared to admit defeat a few months ago in its battle against the elderly rent-stabilized tenants of 85 East End Avenue , who refused to be ousted as part of the school's plan to expand into their building . But it turns out Brearley just had other tricks up its sleeve . The school has purchased 70, 72, and 74 East End Avenue instead , The Real Deal reports . Which means another 15 apartments' worth of rent-stabilized
Celebrity Real Estate Inside Daniel Craig's New Tribeca Pied-a-Terre Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 30 new posts Eater NY 23 new posts Racked NY 16 new posts hamptons 1 new post MARKETPLACE Thursday , May 27, 2010 Skyline Update Another Look at Carnegie 57, the New Monster of Midtown Thursday , May 27, 2010, by Joey The Observer pried another rendering of Carnegie 57 out of the grip of developer Gary Barnett's Extell , this one showing what the Park Hyatt hotel redonkulously expensive condo tower designed by Christian de Portzamparc will do to the Central Park South skyline . The billion-dollar glassy skyscraper will be the tallest residential building in the city when completed , and let's just say spotting it in this rendering is a bit easier than finding Waldo .
Celebrity Real Estate Inside Daniel Craig's New Tribeca Pied-a-Terre Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 30 new posts Eater NY 23 new posts Racked NY 16 new posts hamptons 1 new post MARKETPLACE Thursday , May 27, 2010 Linkage Huge Cash Deal in TWC What's Your Building Biology More Thursday , May 27, 2010, by Joey An East Williamsburg deal-in-the-making , via New York Shitty President of concrete test fakers gets 7 to 21 years in prison NYT Russian oligarch buys Time Warner Center duplex for 15.95M in cash NYP Building biology' experts tell you what's wrong with your apartment NYT Some in South Williamsburg wants a park built over the BQE BK Paper City may buy Village's 75 Morton Street for new school NYDN Brooklyn College stopped from paving paradise to put up a parking lot
Mindboggling Reveals Extell's 75-Story Midtown Condo Hotel Finally Revealed Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 28 new posts Eater NY 26 new posts Racked NY 16 new posts hamptons 1 new post MARKETPLACE Wednesday , May 26, 2010 CurbedWire Orchard Street Hell Reactivated Closings to Begin at 500 Fourth Wednesday , May 26, 2010, by Joey LOWER EAST SIDE The latest twist in the saga of the Orchard Street Hell Building sudden activity From next to 180 Orchard Street , a tipster writes : We live in an apartment on ludlow next to the Orchard hell site . This week we've heard noises of construction hammering , rotary saws I'm guessing about 4-5 workers on site , hidden beneath the second story . I also spotted what seemed to be a site super giving a tour of the site to a rather young
: Mindboggling Reveals Extell's 75-Story Midtown Condo Hotel Finally Revealed Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 28 new posts Eater NY 26 new posts Racked NY 16 new posts hamptons 1 new post MARKETPLACE Wednesday , May 26, 2010 Linkage Weekly Food Edition : Lincoln Center's Restaurant Still Unnamed Wednesday , May 26, 2010, by Sara Nolita's Cafe Colonial closed yesterday Carroll Gardens' Prime Meats gets two stars NYT Trump Soho's Quattro plagued by inconsistency NYP One reviewer calls new pizzeria Pulino's a total flop Bloomberg Three potential restaurants for sale on the corner of Bowery and Great Jones EVG Gross but happening anyway : Midtown street meat taste test ML Lincoln Center's 20 million new restaurant doesn't have a name NYT Food truck competition show filming in
"More steel and glass. Looks pretty boring. The wavy basketweave entrance texture is at least some nod to ornament. I can't imagine anyone paying 15 CPW prices to live in something that looks like an office building in Jersey City."Troy Torrison [Extell's 75-Story Midtown Condo/Hotel Finally Revealed!]
Mindboggling Reveals Extell's 75-Story Midtown Condo Hotel Finally Revealed Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 28 new posts Eater NY 26 new posts Racked NY 16 new posts hamptons 1 new post MARKETPLACE Wednesday , May 26, 2010 PriceSpotter Pricing a Taste of Downtown on the Upper East Side Wednesday , May 26, 2010, by Joey PriceSpotter is Curbed's asking price guessing game . We provide you with some details and pictures from an apartment listing , and you take a crack at the price in the comments . Tomorrow we reveal the answer . And hey , no cheating What Where 2BR , 2BA condo on East 88th Street btwn First Second Square Feet 1,765 Maintenance CC 1,395 The Skinny Something we don't normally find in Yorkville apartments : a double-height living room with a wall of windows .
Remember Me Forgot your password Register Home About Stadium Tips Contact Press Discount Yankees Tickets Attendance Tracker 09 Attendance Tracker 10 Attendance Tracker Archives 2009 Archives 2010 Archives Old Site Hiatus Written by Ross Tuesday , 25 May 2010 21:57 Hey all . Once again , we find ourselves overwhelmed by life and underwhelmed by blogging about the Yankee Stadium experience . We've had some disappointing experiences at the stadium this season , but the main reason for the lack of posts is our upcoming nuptials set to occur on June 18 in Turks and Caicos . Hopefully we'll emerge from that trip re-energized to do what we do here . Meanwhile , we're hoping for some contributions from blog contributor , Leonora , and potentially other fans of the . blog If you've have a
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IN MEMORY OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS
A meeting to honor the memory of Frederick Douglass was held last night in the Concord Baptist Church of Christ on Duffield street. Among the speakers was the Rev. Hiram Hutchins, whose 85 years, it is said, make him the oldest living abolitionist. Others who addressed the meeting included the Rev. [...]
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I first saw Mr. Lincoln in the early summer of 1863. I had a special object in seeing him at that time. I had been engaged in raising two regiments of colored men in Massachussetts, the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth. Two of my sons were in those regiments. Jefferson Davis had taken notice of these colored [...]