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- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a professor at Brooklyn Law was killed by a garbage truck this morning in Brooklyn Heights and an "all hands" fire broke out on Ludlow and Delancey Street in Manhattan.
- A Westchester teen got busted by the SPCA after collecting more than 150 animals, and forcing them to live in squalid conditions. The animals included "bearded dragon lizards, rabbits, guinea pigs, turtles, ferrets, chameleons, South American squirrels, cats, hamsters, an albino leopard gecko, a prairie dog and a Russian tortoise... cockatiels, lovebirds, chickens, roosters, domestic pigeons, peacocks, a parakeet, geese and diamond doves."
- Hevesi still has to pay the state another $33,604.97-- he's got ten days to do it, or else!
- The Observer has a list of the 29 most important families in New York. Most of them, like the Hearsts, Sulzbergers, Trumps, and Tischs are dazzlingly rich, but there are some surprises, including the literary Foer brothers, and the artistic Schnabels.
- New York Mag has an illustrated look at Prospect Heights-- the neighborhood whose northern edge is set to be consumed by the Atlantic Yards project.
- Yoko Ono's chauffeur was arrested after trying to extort $2m from her. He claimed to have "secret recordings of Ono's personal conversations." Maybe she admitted to breaking up The Beatles!
- Have we noted that Goldman Sachs is giving out $16.5 BILLION in bonuses to its staff this year? If we did, who cares-- $622,000 dollars (on average) per employee is worth another link.
- Good news: the beautiful and spooky Child's Restaurant Building in Coney Island is being renovated and reopened.
- And Star Foster, our Phillyist co-editor who passed away suddenly this past week, has been lovingly memorialized at many Philly sites. Phillyfuture has a good wrapup of all the links, and the info on the scholarship Star's family is setting up in her honor; there is a service for her tomorrow in Philadelphia.
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Quick. Somebody tell me how to get a job at goldman sachs!
What an amazing photograph!
Anyone want to take a stab at a year? I'm guessing early 60s, based on the cars.
The Admiral sign looks earlier than the rest of the scene. I would've thought there'd be a Coke sign by then. The Castro Convertibles sign looks later than the rest of the scene. Interesting how we have mental images of time periods but the reality is a moosh of different periods somehow being averaged out in the brain.
I would think the movie "What a Way to Go" was verging on mid-'60s (I suppose I could look it up) even thought the guy looks early.
Great picture.
The Admiral sign looks earlier than the rest of the scene. I would've thought there'd be a Coke sign by then. The Castro Convertibles sign looks later than the rest of the scene. Interesting how we have mental images of time periods but the reality is a moosh of different periods somehow being averaged out in the brain.
I would think the movie "What a Way to Go" was verging on mid-'60s (I suppose I could look it up) even thought the guy looks early.
Great picture.
what a way to go - 1964
um, goldman sachs will not be distributing that bonus money evenly, i'm sure. the investment bankers will make out like the disgusting, greedy, evil pathetic scum that they are, and the support staff will get a couple of thousand each that will be chopped in half by taxes. they'll also be lucky to get a cost-of-living increase raise. bankers don't become rich by being nice, even during the holidays.
Why are ibankers scum? Because they make more in a week than your sorry english-major ass makes in a year? I guess I'd be bitter too if I was you.
And, for the record, the bonuses trickle down nicely.
you're so off the mark on everything ken, that it would be hilarious if it wasn't so sad. why are you an apologist for pure evil?
When ExxonMobil makes billions in profit the left demonizes them. When Goldman Sachs makes even more . . . nothing. Where's the cry for a windfall profit tax?
Thank you so much for that photograph! Excellent!
i'm a leftist and i'm happy to demonize the financial services "industry" (the word is in quotes because they don't actually produce anything or contribute to society in any positive way). so there.
RIP, Professor Robbins. Very, very sad.
I'm a leftist who works in an investment bank.
The people I work with are kind and generous -- for example, everyone at my firm donates a portion of their income to the United Way. Whenever someone on the support staff or in the mailroom has a tragedy, everyone opens their wallets and donates (to help pay for funerals, etc.)
The whole "Investment bankers are greedy scum" trope is nothing more than a stereotype that may apply at times, but I'm guessing it may NOT apply in many more situations.
Hipster doofus like wilson are pathetic jealous losers who was too lazy to achieve the success others have done, and instead proceed to demonize their accomplishments.