Today Duane Reade opened a massive new 24-hour, 22,000-square-foot, flagship store at 40 Wall Street in the Financial District. And what exactly does Duane Reade do with 22,000 feet? Offer a surprising array of upscale goods, food and services that you just can't find in the area's 14 other Duane Reade locations.
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Palatial New Duane Reade Brings Nail Salon, Sushi Bar To Wall Street
Let's Rename The FiDi "SoMa," Or Let's Not!
A group of Lower Manhattan residents clustered around the Financial District think the FiDi is just too reductive a portmanteau these days. Because it's not just for banksters anymore, you know! And so, in an attempt to shed the neighborhood's reputation as an after-hours ghost town, they're trying to rebrand the area with a name that "embodies the new spirit and community": SoMa, for South Manhattan. So moronic, or so marvelous? Here's their pitch:
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href="http://londonist.com/2008/01/6_years_on_amne.php">Amnesty International bringing Guantanamo Bay to the American embassy to raise the profile of the continuing campaign to close the detention center.
Week Around the -Ists
SFist witnessed a new apartment building tszuj the skyline with spectacular, gaudy turquoise aplomb, the (informal) renaming of the Mission/SOMA neighborhood border, the return of the Maltese Falcon, the Mayor Gavin Newsom mea culpa-ing over his Hawaiian getaway during the oil spill, and double-decker buses hitting the streets of San Francisco. Oh, and some baseball player named Barry Bonds is a liar whose pants, it seems, are totally on fire.
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