The Carsten Höller slide at the New Museum is now long gone, so there's only one thing to do about the regret we feel from having never gone... and that is to become friends with whoever buys this East Village pad. This penthouse apartment just went on the market, and features a sculptural steel slide that connects the two floors—according to the Wall Street Journal, it will bring you from "the office with a wet bar on the upper level to the floor below."
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Yeah, This Apartment Has A Carsten Höller-esque Slide In It
Photos Of The New Museum's Giant Slide Being Taken Down Fills Us With Regret
Three months is just too short a time to spend with something as special as Carsten Höller's giant slide, and all those other fun things in his New Museum exhibit that opened last October. But alas, we warned you, we warned ourselves, it was all coming to an end after Sunday. And here we are feeling empty, and cold—oh so cold, like the giant slide probably felt against one's skin. But we wouldn't know, because we never actually went down it.
Last Chance To Slide! New Museum's Carsten Höller Show Closes Sunday
You know what goes great with a snowy saturday? Slides. Which we mention to you because if you've been meaning to get to the giant slide at the New Museum but keep forgetting you are going to want to hop to it this weekend. The museum's record-breaking Carsten Höller show closes Sunday.
Love The New Museum Slide? Well The Price Just Went Up
The New Museum's big attraction, the Carsten Höller exhibit, just got more expensive. The installation, and in particular the giant slide, has been drawing large crowds, and the museum says they raised the price in order to pay for extra staff (and, you know, because they can). The new price is $16, up from $12... but the experience of going down a giant slide and then soaking naked in a public sensory deprivation tank is truly priceless.
The New Museum's Giant Slide (And More) Has Arrived!
New York, say hello to the your newest favorite attraction: Carsten Höller's 102-foot-long slide at the New Museum. The giant plastic tube, which goes down from the museum's fourth floor, through ceilings and floors, to the second floor is now fully operational and will be open to the public from tomorrow through January 15, 2012. And did we mention there is also a sensory deprivation tank? And upside down goggles? And a fish tank you rest your head in? Suddenly getting dragged to the museum seems more like dropping acid and reliving your childhood than a chance to better yourself.
A Giant Slide Is Coming To The New Museum!
Sure we may never get a slide into the subway or one in our airports but we can deal: The New Museum is about to install a three-story slide in its Bowery building. Wheeeee!
Video: We Demand The MTA Install Slides In Our Subway Stations
MTA, you are on innovation notice! While our transit authority is struggling to keep our countdown clocks working Northern Europe is really innovating. We've already discussed Sweden's stunning subways but now the Netherlands has gone and taken getting underground to a whole new level. At the entrance to the Overvecht railway station in Utrecht, a Dutch railway maintenance company has gone and built a slide for people in a hurry. Okay, they are calling it a "transfer accelerator" but let's call an awesome spade an awesome spade. That is a slide.
Do New York Airports Need Slides?
Sure, JetBlue's T5 at JFK Airport is nice, but it's also lacking in in-house entertainment (aside from the occasional concert or random emergency slide exit). Just take a look at what they've got going on at Singapore’s Changi Airport: a 40-foot-slide! Endless opportunity for fun, right at the airport... or as Americans might see it, endless opportunity for lawsuits.
Makeshift Waterslide On Grand Street Today!
Spotted this morning at 41 Grand Street in Manhattan: an incredibly dangerous looking homemade slip n' slide! This is apparently part of Recess Art's Wet Slipper installation, where visitors are told they should be prepared to shed their street clothes and don a custom bathing suit "to be reborn riding a log through the flume ride rapids." So if your morning coffee just isn't doing it for you today, head over there for a little adrenaline rush. (The slide will be up through September 2nd... or until the first injury occurs.)
Teen Sues City After Softball Slide Injury
Today's frivolous lawsuit that will probably flush away more of your tax dollars in an out of court settlement: A Queens teenager is suing the city because she broke her ankle in a base sliding drill during high school softball practice. Francis Lewis High School sophomore Alina Cerda had to have six screws and a metal plate implanted in her ankle after sliding on a muddy base path during a May practice. You'll never guess who's fault that was!
11-Year-Old Arrested For Putting Razor Blade On Slide
This is messed up: A 6-year-old was gashed when sliding down a playground slide in Dutchess County—because a razor blade was placed there! Police arrested an 11-year-old boy for putting the razor there (investigators found the razor "had been inserted into the slide through a hole created from underneath the slide, so that just the edge of the blade stuck up into the slide and would cut anyone sliding down") and apparently the boy had vandalized the Pleasant Valley playground before. The victim, Sean Yambo, required 30 stitches to close up the laceration (it's pretty gory-looking). His father told WCBS 2, "It was horrifying to say the least. Every night we're changing the gauze and what not. The pain, the agony, the screaming," and added, "I feel bad for the other kid who was involved who did it. He's 11, so something is wrong with him, too."
Swing Time: Dow Ends Down 128 Points to 8,451
Traders really need this weekend after stocks swung in a 1,000 point range on the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The stock market fell 696 points in the first 15 minutes but managed to recover and even trade above the open. At the end of the day, the market closed down 128 points, to 8,451. Nasdaq ended slightly up, +0.27%, while the S&P 500 ended -1.18% down.
Dow Closes Down 668 Points to Under 9,000
Well, neither talk of the government taking ownership stakes in banks or yesterday's interest rate cut has helped stem the stock market's slide. Today, the Dow Jones Industrial fell 7.2% to close at 8,589 points, under 9,000 for the first time in five years. The Nasdaq fell 5.47% and the S&P 500 fell 7.5%.
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