The Library's lion is getting a haircut! The Times is reporting that the New York Public Library is unveiling a new logo which is designed to look better online when shrunk—the old one was too detailed and wouldn’t translate digitally. Also Patience, the lion who is featured in the logo, just really wanted to try something new, you know? It was time! Too bad the king of the jungle ended up with an 80s blowout.
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Take a long drag of your Warm Mocha Mint Cigar - it might be the last you buy in the city. Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed the ban on flavored tobacco into law yesterday. But before you hyperventilate, read the fine print: the ban doesn’t include clove or menthol cigarettes or even flavored hookah.
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As the roller derby season winds down, interest in the sport has just sparked. The crowd at Saturday’s double-header game was chock full of newbies, tweens, and kids. You could just see images of Ellen Page in their young, innocent eyes. While the games weren’t nearly as violent as the ones in “Whip It,” the visiting team, Sockit Wenches, gave our gals a run for the money and went home with the prize.
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The love-hate-mainly-hate relationship between pedestrians and cars in this city plays out on corners and in cross-walks on a daily basis and it ain't exactly a fair fight. In all realness, a head-to-head battle between a person on the street and a car in NYC has the same expected outcome as my third-grade self and the sixth-grade bully that used to hustle me for my milk money (let's just say I grew up calcium deficient). But tomorrow marks a little victory for the walking man, when he gets to flip his nemesis the proverbial finger and steal his parking spot.
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The Naked Cowboy, aka Robert Burck, is a 38-year-old guy from Ohio who has been playing his guitar and posing for pictures with tourists in NYC for 11 years, qualities that obviously qualify him to be mayor. "No one knows how to do more with less than yours truly, and that's the kind of thinking I plan on sharing with my fellow New Yorkers when you elect me,” he said.
Mr. Naked Cowboy (a slightly more official name to put on the ballot), who plans to announce his candidacy on Wednesday, is going to run a campaign with a platform that will concentrate on “innovation on tax breaks, tourism, gay marriage, transit and homeland security,” and "bringing transparency to a whole new level." Tony Avella? Bill Thompson? Michael Bloomberg? These names are fading under the huge spotlight of THE NAKED COWBOY. Of course, he still has the crazed panache of Rev. Billy to deal with. New Yorkers, buckle your seat belts.
Ever felt that your liquor wasn’t quite as potent as it was supposed to be? That’s not all the State Liquor Authority has been cracking down on, as numerous hot spots around the city are being fined for both contaminated and diluted alcohol.
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Something’s fishy about New York’s fish—but that won’t stop desperate locals from bringing home a free dinner. The “fresh” fish that people have been catching is laden with toxins and cancer causing PCBs; levels of mercury make it especially dangerous for children and women of child-bearing age.
The Daily News tested fish in three different locations, and the highest levels of mercury and PCBs were seen in a striped bass found off of Gantry Plaza. Although Hunts Point in the Bronx had a winter flounder that was a bit cleaner, tests of bluefish from the Gowanus Harbor off Red Hook also had dangerous levels of toxins.
Although the studies appear to demonstrate that the fish caught near NYC's coast aren't safe, many of New York’s shanty fishermen have yet to accept this fact. Gabriel Gomez—a married father with two sons aged 12 and 15—is sited in the Daily News story as the typical example of a New York fisherman. He was spotted wearing a garbage bag to protect himself from the rain, while using his makeshift fishing rod constructed of discarded water bottle and string. He said that, “This week, I only work one day. Yesterday, fish. Today, fish. Not working too much, you see.”
Recreational anglers at Gantry Plaza State Park in Queens say that even beggars are hungry for the fish. Instead of asking for spare change, they ask for spare fish from whomever is willing to share. Yet some fishermen weren’t even aware of the dangers of mercury and PCBs. To spread the warning, state officials say that they have already handed out thousands of brochures in English and Spanish, and signs have been put up at fishing spots throughout the city. [via nydailynews]
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