Financial analysts Chris Solarz and Matt Ferrisi—number crunching co-workers at a “Manhattan investment firm”—have become New York-famous for having painstakingly studied the system and planning to beat the current world record by riding through every station in less than 24 hours.
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The first rule in roller derby is... there are a whole lot of freakin’ rules to roller derby. For a first-timer like me, the beginning of the bout proved confusing. It was fun, but I didn’t have a clue what was going on. Lucky for me, Brooklyn Bombshell player Double Clutch (aka Pebbles Napakh) pointed me in the direction of her husband, Elliot, and he explained it to me. Here is what I learned while the championship team Queens of Pain duked it out with the taxi-themed Bronx Gridlock at Hunter College’s Sportplex this past Saturday for the opening of the Gotham Girls roller derby season.
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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.
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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Today the New York Yankees released single game tickets for the 2009 season at the new stadium. I live in the Bronx and I want to see the new addition to the neighborhood, so I decided to see what was available for tickets. I figured most tickets would be sold out at this point, 11 o’clock in the morning, though I decided to try anyway.
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Starting this week, you can adopt a building in the 9,335-square-foot scale model of New York City at the Queens Museum of Art. In an effort to raise money for the museum and update the famed panorama, the museum is putting every building in the city on the market. For $50, you can own your apartment. For $250, you can finally purchase that house you’ve been saving for. For $500, you can name your school, library or firehouse. What a deal!
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As I watched the Bronx Gridlock skate their way to victory, I had mixed emotions. I was happy, because they won in a neck-to-neck game against the Manhattan Mayhem, but sad as well since their victory symbolized the end of the 2009 derby season. This was my first year watching the Gotham Girls and, honestly, they are a pretty amazing bunch of women. To witness the players and teams grow in these eight games has truly been a wonderful adventure. Now, to try and summarize the incredible game last Saturday.
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Mott Haven High’s papers said "Best Couple: pick a boy and a girl." But Victoria Cruz, a youth reporter in WNYC’s Radio Rookies program, crossed out boy and wrote girl, submitting herself and her girlfriend, Deoine. And so did the majority of her classmates, making them the first same-sex couple to win Best Couple in the school’s history.
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For the first time that I can discern, federal stimulus money will be used to repair and prevent the inevitable destruction of actually tangible things: The Brooklyn Bridge (and 16 other bridges along with the Staten Island Ferry terminal).
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