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In September, we wrote about department store Lord & Taylor and many praised its prices and shopping environment. One passionate comment:

Lord & Taylor's is fantastic. Over the past 3-4 years, they've made a great effort to stock well edited pieces from younger, trendier brands. They're like Macy's in that they always have a great sale (and bonus coupons), but it's never as crowded, loud, chaotic, or unorganized. I've never had to wait in line for a fitting room or had to wade through knee-deep clothing that's fallen off the racks. The sales associates are polite, friendly, and are actually knowledgeable about the clothes that they're selling - I mean, how often do find a sales associate in a mid-priced large dept. store suggesting and pulling items for you!? So I guess if shopping in a calm, uncluttered store that offers well-made, stylish clothing AND thoughtful service is only for the elderly - friggin hand me my walker.

Well, now it turns out that Lord & Taylor's parent company NRDC, is considering a drastic change. Crain's reports, "NRDC may move the store - a landmark on Fifth Avenue and West 39th Street for 92 years - to another Manhattan location. Or it could leave town altogether, moving its flagship to the suburbs." President Richard Baker says, "It's nice having a Manhattan store, but I wouldn't call it key. We want to be where people live, not where they work."

Chef Hilly Blondheim never meant to start a business. After serendipitously creating a multi-purpose chocolate powder (meant to be hot cocoa mix) while at culinary school in Atlanta, Georgia, Blondheim wandered from store to store seeing who would bite. Looking to raise money for his mother’s breast cancer foundation, the Joy-to-Life Foundation, an organization funding mammograms for women who cannot afford them, Blondheim was elated when Thom Foust, a buyer at Neiman Marcus, discovered the gourmet chocolate treats and put them in their Atlanta store.

Toby Leah Bochan, About.com Editor

Gothamist understands the need for advertising revenue, but this pop up ad from the New York Times website really took the cake. It seemed like a pop up ad appropriate when going to Maxim or FHM. Time to fire off a letter to new public editor, Daniel Okrent. "Dear Daniel, Love the paper, hate your ads." Granted, the ads seem to only appear after 11PM, but they're still kind of downmarket, back of Village Voice or NY Press style.