How Was Your Weekend?

Photo of car fire on Brooklyn Bridge via Jon Mah

• The New York City metro area received a lot of rain and severe weather. One daring Hoboken resident didn't fare too well when he tried to drive through a flooded road.
• Notify NYC (advertising here at top left!) started sending alerts for a car fire on the Brooklyn Bridge at around 4.30pm yesterday. The dramatic photos seen here started appearing on Twitter immediately. 
• No parking? Always room in a crosswalk.
  Who owns the domain names NewYork.com and StatenIsland.com? These ballers do. (via)
  
• Have you walked by Keith McNally latest restaurant, Pulino's, on Bowery and asked yourself, 'why does it look like an upscale Olive Garden?' You're not the only one.
  
• A post on the 'Dying Manhattan Coffee Shops' leads to a discussion in the comments; Is your neighborhood coffee shop racist?
  
• When and why did Gawker start preventing Google from caching their site? Nick Denton is mum on the topic.
  

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Milford Plaza on 8th ave btw 44 and 45th

• Last night the obituary was celebrated at New York Public Library <Art.Cult>
  
• Historic photos of Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade <Animal>
  
• Fact: No shortage of Obama shirts in Union Square <Urbanite>
  
• Tracy Colburn: Driving the night shift of a NYC Transit bus, <City Room>
  
• NYC Advocacy Group: Homelessness Getting Worse <1010 Wins>
  
• December tour of NYPL 'stacks' will be last ever <Newyorkology>
  
• NBA Union Square Event "Lame," Rainy <Runnin' Scared>
  
• He thought he was in the true-Blue UWS, but JOHN H. TUCKER discovered not everyone supported Obama’s campaign <8 Million Stories>
  
• Pinsky Says New Yankee Stadium "A Home Run"; We Cry Foul <Runnin' Scared>
  
• Hanging out with Chet from The Real World <Fifth Column Blogs>
  
• Where Manhattan's $1 M. Home Sales Happen <The Real Estate>
  
• Time Out NY covers the activities beat for deaf people <I, New York>

Harlem World

Camera phone photo of PS 186 on 145th St. in Harlem, the school has sat empty for over 30 years

• Canty Cordero, 38, was shot once in the head on w.176th, and once in the stomach. He died at St. Barnabas Hospital. <Spotcrime>
• Man Is Killed in Harlem Fire <NY Times>
  
• Profiling the Harlem Y.M.C.A. <NY Times>
• Columbia University defends women's studies <Newsday>
• City Carves Up E. 125th St. for Developers <The Indypendent>
• City College Exhibit Highlights Dominican Experience In New York <CUNY Newswire>
  
• A City-owned lot at Park Ave. and 108th St. in negotiations with real estate developer Tahl-Propp Equities for $1 sale. <Epoch Times>
• CUNY journalism student witnesses thieves crash a stolen minivan, the proceeding police attempt to arrest the suspects, and the suspects delivered to the precinct. Blogging and photos follow. <Fundamentals of Interactive Journalism>
• SpaHa? SoBro? SoHa? Awkward much? It's The South Bronx. Spanish Harlem, El Barrio. "You build on that kind of passion, you don’t paint over it." <Diary of a Mad Nuyorican> And so it should come as no surprise following last week's article in the NYTimes featuring some great clubs in W.Harlem that a PR flack is trying to brand the area in question, the "Harlem Meat Packing District."

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Opening tomorrow night at the Italian Academy of Columbia U, btw 117 and 118 on Amsterdam

• ObamaBike Sells, Democratic Candidate Just Got A Little Richer <Animal>
  
• Trace of an old pet shop surfaces where Duane Reade once held court <Urbanite>
  
• Answers About the History of Wealth in New York <City Room>
  
• Hotel Chelsea Residents Faced With Eviction Notices <Gothamist>
  
• Clowns at Lincoln Center! the Big Apple Circus returns <The Bowery Boys>
  
• Chanel Mobile Art is a Bizarre Example of Consumerism for Sexy-Chic Strivers
  <Fifth Column Blogs>
  
• A Guide To Japanese Candy In NYC <NY Mag>
  
• Urban Fiction Goes From Streets to Public Libraries <NY Times>

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Harlem World

Looking North past 125 St From the elevated train line at the 123 Subway stop

• Columbia Students Release New Erotic Magazine <College on the Record>
  
• Thursday October 30th, the Jackie Robinson Recreation Center will be hosting the Halloween Children's Festival <Exodus Foundation>
  
• W.Harlem nightclubs are fly <NYTimes>
  
• "...West Harlem residents expressed concern that evictions and rent hikes would continue to worsen in the face of economic downturn and Columbia’s expansion into Manhattanville." <Columbia Spectator>
  
• John Kelley from the BBC visits the Dance Theater of Harlem <Talking America>
  
• Mulling over the new Target coming to E.Harlem <Geo/Graphi/Culture>
  
• Recollections of growing up in E.Harlem in 1940's <The History Box>
  
• ModSquad Bike Shop Sign is Up in Harlem <Harlem Condo Life>
  
• A Harlem man was gunned down early Saturday on a basketball court a few blocks from his home at 102nd St,. <Daily News>
• The First Line of Defence. Marker honors the 225th anniversary of The Battle of Harlem Heights fought on September 16, 1776, during the Revolutionary War <HMBD>
• Man in Harlem hit by SUV, dragged by clueless driver <Daily News>
• What happens when a secular Jew walks from Harlem to Ground Zero in a burqa?
  <The Comment Factory>

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Yellow B Line, seen at the 145th Street station

• ObamaBike Update: Bid Reaches $1,025 <Animal>
  
• Comedic highlights: City Council term limits hearing <Urbanite>
  
• For Young New Yorkers, Wages Stuck in 1979 <City Room>
  
• Arthur "Kendu" James, 39. West St between Christopher and W 10th Sts
  <I, New York>
  
• Street Etiquette in the present <New York Lookbook.nu>

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seen at 8th ave btw 57th and 58th streets

• Tonight, the National Press Club and NYU are hosting a discussion on free speech <Animal>
  
• Pledge now and you could win a Mac Book Pro! <WNYC>
  
• Prayer Booths installed on Roosevelt Island <City Room>
  
• Say Good-Bye to the Queen Elizabeth 2 <Gothamist>
  
• A Bronx tale: Death at the Edgar Allen Poe Cottage <The Bowery Boys>
  
• Scenes from the 44th annual Hispanic Day Parade <am New York>
  
• From Wasteland to Parkland Along the Hudson (play with the slider on the photo!)
  <NY Times>
  

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Harlem World Short Stack

• Economic Struggles Hit West Harlem's Small Businesses; "I wish there was a bailout package for local businesses, because local businesses are what give money back to the community, Joseph said. "When we fail, it really has an impact on the community."<Columbia Spectator>
  
• Basketball takes center stage in this Harlem "dog show" <Columbia Journalist>
  
• Studio Museum in Harlem’s Schedule of Exhibits <Uptown Flavor>

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Greenwich Village's Village Cigars Shop on 110 7th Avenue South

• "The estate refused to surrender a remaining triangle, 500 square inches, the smallest piece of private property in the city. In 1938 they sold the plot to Village Cigars for $1,000. Cracked and worn, it remains a testimony to one small triumph over the city of New York..." <Greenwich Village Daily Photo>
  
• Bucky Turco would like you to have this Obama Bike<Animal>
  
• Bring back the humpbacks! <Urbanite>
  
• City Is Sued Over Staten Island Landfill <City Room>
  
• Eyes on the Street: Going Soft on Bus Lane Violators <Streetsblog>
  
• Hannah Upp Makes Surprise Public Appearance <Gothamist>
  
• The Bowery Boy are hosting a NYC Trivia Night tonight <The Bowery Boys>
  
• The Townhouse of Horrors on East 63rd Street <>
  
• Andrew Borin, 27 2nd St at Borden Ave, Long Island City, Queens
  <I, New York>

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Harlem World

I'm looking for a home, by piterart on Flickr

• General Growth, one of the developers of a 1.7-million-square-foot development between Second and Third Avenues and 125th and 127th Streets in East Harlem, is in financial trouble. <NY Times>
  
• Compiling a list of free Wi-Fi spots in Harlem <Uptown Flavor>
  
• Mapping crime in Harlem <Harlem Hybrid>
  
• Harlem Hybrid's other project, documenting and photographing birds, catches a Hawk he's been keeping an eye on uptown -who has just caught a squirrel. <The Origin of Species>

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Ron English's McCain Poster, at the Bedford L stop in Brooklyn

• am New York writer just got an ATM card <am New York>
  
• The lost reel of Andy Warhol's "Sleep" <Art.Cult>
  
• At Parade, No Apologies for Columbus <City Room>
  
• Gang Violence Continues in South Williamsburg <Gothamist>
  
• Take the B or C to Cathedral Parkway (110th Street) for a sinfully good time...
  <Time Out NY>
  
• ...Or to catch a beating. Either/or <Columbia Spectator>

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Guerilla Remy Martin advertising above Keith Harring Mural on Houston and Bowery

• Albany to Second Ave.: Drop Dead <New York Mag>
• Special SkyWatch Surveilling Williamsburg Bridge <Animal>
  
• A Phantom Bell Atlantic Phone Booth <City Room>
  
• Arboricidal NYC Waterfalls End Killing Spree Today! <Gothamist>
  
• Bronx Hub Gets Smorgasbord of Ped-Bike-Transit Enhancements <Streetsblog>
  
• Bunny Boy Comes Alive in NYC <NY Press>
  
• George Isn’t Homeless <Mr Bellers Neighborhood>
  
• Welcome, Post-Bubble Prices! Sporty Sixx House Down to $13.95 M.
  <Observer/The Real Estate>
  

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Harlem World

Avalon Morningside, by j-No on Flickr

• Another violent mugging in Harlem on Saturday, victim shot on 131st. <Daily News>
  
• Food pantries in Harlem worry as economy worsens <Columbia Spectator>
  
• Google maps: East Harlem Public Housing and Homicides (2008) <Geo/Graphi/Culture>
  
• Eyes on the Street: Hudson Greenway Link Still a Big Tease <Streetsblog>
  
• An elderly man is in stable condition after a hit-and-run driver struck him Sunday morning in Harlem. <ABC 7>
  
• Has Harlem's renaissance "given some people a false sense of security about Harlem,"? "I'm sure that when you looked up those Flash-based real estate websites you weren't told that drugs (and drug dealers), muggings, rape, and even homicide still exists in Harlem."
  <Uptown Flavor>

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Pepsi Sign Reversed photo by Whiskeygonebad on Flickr

• J/Z lines will take you 'Dowtown' <Urbanite>
  
• Manhattan's Luxury Bubble Pricked <NY Observer>
• Move to Curb Odors From Bronx Fertilizer Plant <City Room>
  
• File this under "secretly I like it cause sometimes im a dick and I bet they all deserve it" <Streetsblog> (if I knew they were doing this to automobiles, id be whistlin and skippin all the way home!)
  
• Black McCain Supporter Found Living in NYC! <Gothamist>
  
• Coney Island's John McKane: the original 'maverick' <The Bowery Boys>
  
• Falafel places in New York that are worth the wait <am New York>
  
• Study Finds "Predatory Equity" Is Destroying Subsidized Housing in NYC <Gotham Gazette>
  
• Asking Twenty New Yorkers what They are Thinking About the Greatest Depression <Daily Intel>

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Harlem World

I see white people, originally uploaded by dM.nyc™.

This one just flew across my radar. A large real estate transaction involving multiple properties in Harlem that seems out of place in light of the financial woes facing the Real Estate and Financial sectors.

"A 21-building portfolio of walk-up apartment buildings in northern Manhattan has sold to an unidentified buyer for $54 million. Known as "the New 118th Upper Manhattan Portfolio," the properties, all in Washington Heights and central Harlem, were sold in an all-cash transaction by Richard Wasserman, a bankruptcy trustee representing a group of investors.

The properties include: 463-467 W. 159th St.; 2180-2182 Amsterdam Ave.; 503-507 W. 176th St.; 531 W. 179th St.; 704 W. 180th St.; 559-561 W. 183rd St.; 510-524 W. 184th St.; 507 W. 184th St.; 515 W. 184th St.; 516-520 W. 188th St.; 283-285 Audubon Ave.; 70-72 Pinehurst Ave.; 500 W. 190th St.; and 234-236 E. 118th St. Shimon Shkury, partner in Massey Knakal, tells GlobeSt.com the purchase price represents approximately $115,000 per unit...

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Welcome to Harlem, originally uploaded by Kym Rohman

• City taps troubled developers for E. Harlem project <Crains>
  
• Wall Street’s Tremors Leave Harlem Shaken <NYTimes>
• 68 Bradhurst loses their doorman <68 Bradhurst>
• Fall Clean Up at St. Nicks Dog Park this Saturday <Uptown Flavor>
  
• The Harlem Piers were open for OHNY this weekend, and Harlem Hybrid was there. <Harlem Hybrid>
  

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The Chrysler Building looking north from 23rd St

• NYC sex stats <Time Out NY>
  
• Who are the financiers, developers and corporate titans lining up behind the mayor's move to revoke term limits? <City Limits>
  
• Person Fatally Struck by Subway in Brooklyn <Gothamist>
  
• Two East Village cemeteries open their gates <The Bowery Boys>
  
• Al B. Sure - Nite And Day <New york Look Book.nu>
• "Stocks may be down, but cocks are up," <NY Observer The Real Estate>
• Metblogs NYC writer had no idea who David Patterson was until seeing this week's New York Magazine cover story on NY Govenor David Patterson <Metblogs NYC>
  
• A court makes it official: a tenant who breaks his lease still owes rent for the full term
  <City Limits>

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Douglas Dunn & Dancers performing "In Formations", 08.20 on The Elevated Acre

• From Bulgaria to Canal Street and Beyond: DJ Joro Boro <Art.Cult>
  
• Geologic Time at Ground Zero <City Room>
  
• What did a subway clerk do when he saw a woman being sexually assaulted on the platform? "nothing really. I was just waiting for the police." <Gothamist>
• "Gleaming brass, polished wood, clean plate glass windows, bright, crowded with men in ties, some wearing hats, smoking, drinking cold Bud from stem glasses or shots of whiskey in one gulp." <Mr. Bellers Neighborhood>
  
• Former NYC Mayor Ed Koch Says Only "Super Rich" Can Afford to Live in NYC; Backs "Figurative" Hanging <Runnin' Scared>

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Harlem World

IMG_0618, originally uploaded by edskoch.

• Hannah Upp, the Harlem teacher whose disappearance sparked a 19-day search, has broken her silence about her dissapearance via her Facebook. <Daily News>
  
• Every Sunday for more than a decade, rain or shine, with no vacations, a jazz concert has taken place in the parlor of Marjorie Eliot's home. <Harlem One Stop>
  
• Pad Thai in 'West Harlem' <ABC 7>
  
• Sal Governale from the Howard Stern show goes uptown to Harlem to interview people about who they would vote for and why... <YouTube>
  
• Harlem Hybrid visits the Magic Johnson Theater

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