With New York's obscene real estate market starting to look ever so slightly less obscene, real estate brokers are panicking like jocks on prom night stuck with dates who won't neck. The crack trend spotters at the Times report that brokers are plying their clients with hard liquor and expensive wine so as to wear down their resistance. "Alcohol brings everyone together," declared broker Kipton Davis while showing a group of bankers and traders around......

Holiday traveling season is fast approaching, as are inevitable, soul-sucking delays, and there’s a very good chance you’ll end up by yourself at the airport re-reading about Clay Aiken’s Magic Birthday Miracle or honing your Sudoku skills. But if you're stuck waiting for Jet Blue at JFK, such a fate might actually be a blessing in disguise. Jauntsetter has obtained a copy of the master wine lists at JetBlue’s new Terminal 5. Prices “range from......

The Daily News suggests that when it comes to drugs, drunks, and overall debauchery, it's all happening in the Meatpacking District. With the NYPD's crackdown of West Chelsea ever since notable, violent crimes, apparently the action has moved south. From the News: "One reporter was solicited by three dealers within two hours on a Saturday night. Reporters watched a pair of twentysomething club girls vomit in tandem; a man urinate as he weaved along Washington......

Safe at Home with Mr. Met, by nycmikewp at flickr A baseball fan was arrested and charged with criminal trespass, disorderly conduct and harassment after making a regrettable scene at last Saturday's game against the Dodgers at Shea Stadium. 32-year-old Christian Hansen was reportedly inebriated and pushing children out of the way to get some face time with Mr. Met, the team's mascot whose costume head is an enormous smiling baseball. Hansen allegedly began......