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Good Causes: Even the mighty Saks Fifth Avenue...

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Even the mighty Saks Fifth Avenue hasn't been able to withstand the current dour economic climate. In the last quarter, the company lost $31.7 million. "What can you do to help?" asks one concerned...

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Wednesday AM Clickage

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Local · Paul Stuart sale "better than Barneys Warehouse" [Choosy Beggar] · Bergdorf gets a special shoe-shaped bike rack [NYP] · Upscale kosher supermarket Pomegranate has opened in Midwood [Urbani...

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Where: Paul Stuart

Slow News Week: The New York Daily News has...

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The New York Daily News has an article on how and where to wear "mandals" or man sandals. "'Mandals are casual footwear. That's what it's meant to be," says Tim Gunn, style guru and 'Project Runway...

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Magnolia Bakery Coming to Midtown

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From the paper of record: “Another branch of this Greenwich Village bakery is to open in late September in Midtown: 1240 Avenue of the Americas (49th Street).”  Oh boy.

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Stunts: Bath and beauty company Lush is...

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Bath and beauty company Lush is drawing attention to the environmentally harmful practice of excessive packaging...by asking staffers to show up to work practically naked, clothed in only their apr...

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Tram Advisory: Early Closing 8/21 due to Film Project

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Per a Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation Advisory on Thursday, August 21, the Tram will be closing at midnight due to a film shoot. The Tram will reopen on Friday August 22, at 6am.No word yet ...

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Meyer's Moving & Storage

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Smooth operator. Meyer's Moving is another big operator in the New York area that we have heard good things about. They can handle local and national moving and are on the phone the second you c

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Rebirth of the QueensBridge Wind Project?

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With Mayor Bloomberg's call for exploring the use of wind power it is appropriate to bringback this video of installing wind turbines on the Queensboro Bridge above Roosevelt Island. I first spoke ...

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Where: Queensboro Bridge
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Flickr Finds: Baltimore Rowhouses Washington DC

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Less than an hour away from DC, Baltimore is a great place to escape for a day trip. With all the interest on last week's post The Wire and Baltimore's Architecture, we're rounding up some amazing p

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The problem with having talking chairs in hotel rooms

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Let's take a quick trip back 55 years to August 1953. An article in that month's Mechanix Illustrated highlights ill-fated inventions, such as talking hotel chairs, which were giving a whirl at the...

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Where: Hotel Edison
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"Maximum" private participation: will the Urban Room become ADT Plaza?

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Atlantic Yards Report Where else does a "Civil Rights-era provision aimed to clear slums" spawn "ADT Plaza" and Ye Olde "Jones Soda Shoppe?" Ratnerville, of course: Architect Frank Gehry, developer...

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Forest City firm on price for convention center site

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The Cleveland Plain Dealer By Joe Guillen Forest City Enterprises executives said they will not drastically cut their $40 million asking price for land at Tower City to pave the way for a medical m...

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Amy Ruth's a No Go in Downtown Brooklyn

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We are so bummed: The Brooklyn Eagle reports that Harlem soul food restaurant Amy Ruth’s, which had signed a lease for the former Gage & Tollner space on Fulton Street in Downtown Brooklyn, is prob...

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Where: Amy Ruth's
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My Trip Up Shit Creek: Part Deux Deux

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I learned a funny thing yesterday. A “friend” will invite you on a boat ride of Newtown Creek. He will later even laud the photographs and the footage you shot. That is, until some person at Channe...

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'Big Daddy Rules' in Brooklyn

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Graffiti in the cement near the Manhattan Bridge overpass. Photo by MK Metz Go to McBrooklyn's HOME PAGE.

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Urban Artifact: Manhattan Avenue

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I strongly suspect this will become a regular feature on New York Shitty. “This” being my predilection for picking up weird crap off the street and taking it home. That said, here’s urban artifact ...

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How Toxic is your paint?

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This is really helpful if you are thinking about painting. This website is run by National Geographic so I totally trust it- and thanks Leo for telling me about it. Here it is: http://www.thegreeng...

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Tonight: Hairspray in Prospect Park

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Summer's almost over! End your vacation the right way by enjoying "Hairspray" in Prospect Park. Sponsored by Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz. Park concessions will be on hand, selling ho...

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"Maximum" private participation: will the Urban Room become ADT Plaza?

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Architect Frank Gehry, developer Forest City Ratner, and the Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC) have long called it the "Urban Room," publicly-accessible open space. (See more here and her...

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Where: Atlantic Yards
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