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The gentrification of the East Village might be overshadowing its Beatnik, bohemian roots, but, at least after today, one building's escaped any potential transformation into a new hot spot for young professional hipsters. In a move sure to preserve a bit of the area's original identity, one of EV's oldest buildings just attained landmark status.
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A housing complex near Ohio State University is calling itself the East Village. By the time this blog is posted, NYU plans to own half of it.
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The New York Times today investigates a trend among some urban youth to search for roommates with the same intensity that one uses to find a lifelong partner.
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Of the mass of people congregated outside the Empire State Building yesterday afternoon, 20 or so were not tourists being mesmerized by the light show creating red and yellow hues on the sight-seeing institution. They were protestors. And they were not protesting what they saw as the blatant overexposure of the New York landmark for the sake of tourism, but rather what they saw as a blatant nod to communism.
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He may be an octogenarian, but Milton Glaser is as gregarious and prolific as ever. Last week, the School of Visual Arts opened the SVA Theatre on West 23rd Street, a state-of-the-art facility for film screenings, artist talks and cultural events that was formerly the rundown Clearview Chelsea West Cinemas. Mainly an extensive rehab job, the new colorful design is the work of Milton Glaser, a longtime SVA faculty member and the school’s acting board chairman. The most distinctive element is this 18-feet-high structure over the theater marquee inspired by Tatlin’s Tower. The kinetic sculpture will rotate at hourly intervals against the newly painted coral-colored wall. This comes after a documentary about Glaser was released earlier this year. Plus, he has a new book of his drawings out. We're mostly excited about the fact that the smelly cinema has been cleaned up and now we don't have to worry about our shoes sticking to the floor during another screening. I mean, there's nothing wrong with that, we're just saying...
Some things are just too classic and flawless-featured to touch. They have the kind of structure that only gets better with age and should be allowed to do so gracefully. This philosophy holds true not only for classic beauties but for classic buildings like, say for instance, the Plaza Hotel, an iconic symbol or Old New York charm and romance. At least it was until owner The Elad Group decided the old dame needed some work done. Not the subtle kind that leaves a girl feeling refreshed either, but rather a cosmetic overhaul of Joan Rivers proportion that's left the Plaza a nipped, tucked, barely recognizable version of her former self.
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When the Jane Hotel opened on its namesake street in the West Village, neighbors welcomed her with quintessential New York indifference. That was until she turned in to a debauched hot spot for the city's social savants. When the din of taxi traffic started ruining their REM cycles and ciggy smoke started killing their begonias, the neighbors said 'Oh hell nah!' and took to their blogs in protest.
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