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- And tomorrow is a big day: There's the Mermaid Parade tomorrow afternoon and the Gothamist-A Hamburger Today Burger Party at Water Taxi Beach in the evening!
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Somehow, perhaps due to a rip in the time-space continuum, Reader's Digest found that New York City is the world's most polite city. Not that Gothamist doubted the friendliness or kindness of our fellow residents, but nailing an 80% in the Reader's Digest Courtesy Test, over say, Toronto (77%)? Or Sydney (a paltry 47%)? And what was the courtesy test?
The routine in New York was similar to the one followed elsewhere: Two reporters -- one woman and one man -- fanned out across the city, homing in on neighborhoods where street life and retail shops thrive. They performed three experiments: "door tests" (would anyone hold one open for them?); "document drops" (who would help them retrieve a pile of "accidentally" dropped papers?); and "service tests" (which salesclerks would thank them for a purchase?). For consistency, the New York tests were conducted at Starbucks coffee shops, by now almost as common in the Big Apple as streetlights. In all, 60 tests (20 of each type) were done.Continue reading "NYC is the World's Most Polite City"
This is probably the first time a literary magazine has won our Map of the Day prize! The Morning News put up a nice set of maps by Dorothy Gambrell measuring the bohemianess of various neighborhoods in NYC. The formula she used:
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The New York Times has a nice spotlight piece about Paul Ford today. We've been big fans of Paul's work at FTrain for years-- and he was nice enough to sit for one of our first interviews:
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Recently Time Magazine picked the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present. Now as these lists seem to come out about once a month and mean about as much as the prize in a box of cracker jacks we've learned to generally completely ignore them. In fact, we probably wouldn't have even registered this latest list if it weren't for this genius post on The Morning News.
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- The Morning News has a great interview with photographer Douglas Levere, as well as a gallery of his New York City photographs
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- Bob Denver passed away at age 70; Gothamist spent so many hours of our youth watching Gilligan's Island on Channel 5 that we really feel like we've lost a bumbling friend who looked great in the color red
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Gothamist fought the stinking heat Tuesday to...sit in only marginally less heat at Florence Gould Hall (we sat among people who did not bring the smell of the 6 train, but there was no AC). The gracious staff of the French Institute/ Allaince Francaise were very accomodating, though, and kept things on-topic with the personalities and finesse of Audrey Saunders of Bemelmans(The Morning News included Bemelman's in a great, if somewhat dated, article about hotel bars) and Anthony Giglio, author of the new book Cocktails in New York and restaurant critic for the New York Sun. And the Tantris Sidecars.
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This week, we've been reading Inigo Thomas's diary in Slate; he's been writing about "Bohemian New York," and the entries are part travelogue, part history of a different kind of life:
There's no bohemia in today's New York. Nothing resembles Greenwich Village in its various incarnations from the turn of the 20th century to the 1960s, or the art-scene East Village of the late 1970s and 1980s, or Williamsburg in the early 1990s. You can try to find bohemia in far-away Bushwick or Red Hook, both districts of Brooklyn. You can go over the Hudson to the disused warehouses of Jersey City; to Harlem; or even across the harbor to Staten Island, where, in the 1950s, in a house near the ferry terminal, the bohemian critic and Henry James scholar Marius Bewley threw legendary weekendlong parties at which he sometimes dressed as a cardinal, so legendary that I heard about these gatherings across the ocean, in London, 40 years on. But you don't come to find such a place, do you? You come to live the life.This got Gothamist thinking about what we know as bohemian - and this isn't counting all the ex-hippies who got lucky with their Park Slope real estate. There's the Bohemian Beer Hall in Astoria and, um...Thomas is right, we have no idea what we're talking about. Luckily The Morning News sussed out bohemian-ness in NYC last year (there are pretty maps!). And there's also Christine Stansell's book, Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century, which covers turn-of-the-century NY. And Thomas's Slate entries also have some nice links to other books that inform on the matter.
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Of course, many people are familiar with some variation on the film strip, even if filmstrips were being phased out in favor of videotapes (Gothamist's personal favorite: The 1970s film about menstruation, where an excited girl yells "I got it!" and then her parents say to each other proudly, "She go it!" and the younger brother says, "Got what?" Bwa ha ha.). The educational film are also a frequent subject of homage on The Simpsons (see a list of Simpsons educational films here on this page about Troy McClure, if you scroll down) - "Two Minus Three Equals Negative Fun."
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"It seems like it's part of the larger urban environment," he said. "It seems, in a way, that it's always been there."
Another Pentagram partner, Michael Bierut, likened Gotham to the Manhattan street grid. "It doesn't show individual authorship," he said, "but it shows a character you wouldn't find anywhere else." Some samples of the typeface can be found here at the Hoefler-and-Frere-Jones website, plus here are some interview with Frere-Jones from Typotheque and The Morning News. And is Tobias any relation to music critic Sasha Frere-Jones? Hmm...
Another Pentagram partner, Michael Bierut, likened Gotham to the Manhattan street grid. "It doesn't show individual authorship," he said, "but it shows a character you wouldn't find anywhere else." Some samples of the typeface can be found here at the Hoefler-and-Frere-Jones website, plus here are some interview with Frere-Jones from Typotheque and The Morning News. And is Tobias any relation to music critic Sasha Frere-Jones? Hmm...
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Is there only one rivalry left in baseball? George Vecsey thinks so (for the record, Gothamist thinks there are at least two rivalries in baseball). Vecsey contends that the only rivalry that is worth watching is the Yankees/Red Sox rivalry and to an extent, parts of his article are true. There is tremendous buzz around the two teams this year, with each team making off-season moves. Then there are the Mets, who Vecsey says are serving "leftovers" and have "no buzz" (has he been reading Whatevs?). Gothamist wonders if the addition of Kazuo Matsui and the play of Jose Reyes can cause excitement in Vecsey. Even we weren't so down on the Mets in our baseball preview.
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Thanks, Charlie, for letting us contribute. We, probably like the others, feel like we barely scratched the surface, so if you ever want to do Favorite Things, 11-20....
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Everyday Matters drops the reader into Gregory and his family's life as they recover from the accident and reassemble their life together through the intimacy of Gregory's drawings and handwritten journal-style entries. It's tragic, moving, beautiful, passionate, and encouraging; in short, a story about life in New York.
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The most productive most people are on the subway is scanning a few headlines in the paper or getting through a chapter of a book. Maybe some can manage to put on their mascara, but that's real talent. That's why The Morning News's feature on Witold Riedel and his drawings that take seed from his subway journeys is fascinating. Riedel has some beautiful thoughts about New York and riding the subway, like "New York appears to be not really one city, but millions of parallel cities, seen from the point of view of every person living here. The subway is a place where very different perspectives are packed onto a common below-ground denominator." Here here.
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Lloyd Grove gets political and examines Wesley Clark's recent subway journey. And it's official: The Democratic presidential hopeful is a Metrotard (TM The Morning News). After claiming he was riding the subway "Simply because it's the best way to get around the city," Clark tried to swipe his Metrocard at the turnstile, only to get "PLEASE SWIPE AGAIN." Then his aide tried a few times to work the Metrocard. Grove asked if the general had ever taken the subway before, and Clark replied, "I've taken it lots of times. My wife [Gertrude] is from Brooklyn. She's from Park Slope. Then, her family lived in Flatbush for a while. And so we used to ride the IRT all the time. But I haven't been on since they got the new ticket machines. I'm used to the old tokens." Okay, but still, if he gets elected, Gothamist wants a check on his motor skills.
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The Morning News the fabulous Great Pupkin event in Fort Greene. The Great Pupkin is an opportunity for dog owners to dress up their dogs in various Halloween finery (just as Halloween is an opportunity for girls to slut it up ), though writer Todd Levin notes, "There is something tragicomic about a dog in a sombrero...The psychological implications of a dog in costume might be horrible if they weren’t so completely adorable." And the most adorable photographs by Geoff Badner accompany Levin's essay. Gothamist can't help it - we love dogs, er, dog owners who dress up their dogs, as ghosts or Pooh.
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More New Yorker Festival hilarity from Choire for The Morning News (thanks for the visual of David Remnick wearing his "off-label jeans too high"). A recipe from Grand Marnier utilizing cranberry juice and Grand Marnier.
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The Times looks at how Metrocards aren't safe from thieves trying to steal fares, specifically with techniques like "bending the card" which is a far cry from ancient techniques of stealing tokens. The MTA estimates they lose $260,000 a year on card-benders, versus $5 million on turnstile jumpers. The Morning News coined a brilliant Metrocard phrase: Metrotard - Maybe they were simply fare swiping. Oh, and the Times piece answers what's done with the discarded Metrocards that litter stations: Absolutely nothing.
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Mon dieu! Gothamist's favorite New York Times food writer, Amanda Hesser, and husband New Yorker writer Tad Friend, are riding Segways in Paris for Slate. Apparently, Tad Friend is heading up some sort of diplomatic-literary-technology type of delegation to bring cutting edge human transport devices to old-school Europe. About time.
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Something so gross and horrifying that it's now probably going to be Gothamist's number one nightmare, especially when our tummy hurts:
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