My First Ticker-Tape Parade:
Skip to 1:19: I Need to Go to 53rd & 7th Right Now and report back with some first-hand impressions of the fancy-schmancy MSFT Surface-touch-thing-a-ma-jig…
(via Archinect) Conceding the failure of the South Street Seaport pier as a “festival marketplace” — these days, it is not much more than a waterfront mall — its owners plan to replace it with a mixed-use project including a 42-story, 495-foot apartment and hotel tower, wrapped in a terra-cotta exoskeleton and rising from new [...]
Pata Negra Tapas, NYC How are the hams cured? The hams from the slaughtered pigs are salted and left to begin drying for two weeks, after which they are rinsed and left to dry for another four to six weeks. The curing process then takes at least nine months, although some producers cure their jamónes [...]
Anyone Going?
Got $10.5 Mil? If you opened up both sides, wouldn’t the cross-draft reach unsafe wind speeds?
New York’s Soul Survives: dailysession.com, a new online media source for New York’s underground music culture, helps reestablish the city’s collective soul. Dailysession is NISE Music’s newest venture. NISE is one of the most talented DJ/Producers in NYC right now and he’s devoting himself to fostering and promoting underground music culture in NYC. Download the [...]
(Via the NYC Department of City Planning Website) The proposal would capitalize on Coney Island’s beachfront location and envisions the development of between approximately 4,000 and 5,000 new units of housing outside the amusement area, including roughly 900 affordable units. It would promote new retail uses and hotels to serve the year round amusement area. [...]