June 21, 2007
Extra, Extra
- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a pursuit at 95th St. and 2nd Ave in Manhattan and two pedestrians were struck, a hanging at the D.E.P. plant on Wards Island, and a pipe explosion on 4th Ave. and 2nd St. in Brooklyn.
- Perhaps the early bird lunch for seniors at the Fort Greene Masonic Temple should be all-ages, because we hear that James Brown impersonator Black Velvet rocks the house.
- The several-thousand-pages-long environmental impact statement regarding Columbia University's expansion into Manhattanville details the eventual displacement of thousands of current residents through rent escalation, and the adverse environmental problems of waste, congestion, air quality, and energy use.
- Some residents of the Hotel Chelsea received a possibly ominous letter.
- GE and Pearson LLC have dropped their bid to acquire the company that owns The Wall Street Journal.
- Brooklyn Heights will soon have a floating pool: a pool that will float in the East River between Piers 4 and 5 near Joralemon St.
- Is Jessica Alba buying a condo on the Lower East Side? Or maybe she is buying it for younger brother Joshua Alba?
- A former Westchester teacher was sentenced for selling crack in Manhattan - on the playground of PS 28 in Harlem.
- Citizen Kane and The Godfather led this year's American Film Institute second ranking of the greatest U.S movies of all time, (the first ranking was five years ago.) We've actually always preferred The Godfather 2, but we're not a historian, film critic, or expert, so had no say in the rankings.
Planetarium, AMNH, by chschulz at flickr
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RE: the swimming 'pool'...I looked at the website, and maybe i'm dumb, but I don't get it. Swimming? in the East River???? in the WATER of the East River??
who would actually do that?
someone explain this to me. Today I was walking on white and 6th avenue and there was a gameboy concert. Someone was playing his gameboy hooked up to huge speakers and had a bad and was just wailing away on the buttons and white hipsters were going crazy. It was unreal.
If one looks at the plans closely, one can see that people won't be swimming in the waters of the East River. The proposed project involves a swimming pool and recreation area on a floating barge that is anchored in the East River.
That's exactly what it is. I can see it from my window. It's a pool and some cabanas on a barge between Piers 4 and 5. It's been there since the fall, though I think it just opened.
In all honesty, it looks pretty small for a public pool. But what the hell...