Big Ticket | Sold for $14 Million The New York Times | A duplex penthouse at 181 East 65th Street that sold for $14 million was the biggest sale of the week, according to public records. | The condominium at the 34-story Chatham was owned by and had been designed for Jeff T. Blau, the president of the ...
It’s the 37th District. Or Is It a Squirrel? The New York Times | On Thursday, New York State lawmakers released their redistricting proposals for 2012. Those oddly jagged shapes may suggest gerrymandering, but do they have a deeper psychological meaning? | In September, City Room reported that the Ninth Congress...
A Proposed Central Park Takeover, Back in 1976 The New York Times | Here’s an even stranger footnote to the history-is-stranger-than-satire factoid we noted Thursday regarding an Alaskan lawmaker’s modest proposal to have the federal government take over Central Park, which turns out to have been suggested with...
What Did You Buy at Bleecker Bob’s? The New York Times | One of the more primitive features, historians and old people will recall, of the era before recorded music could be summoned on command from a tap like water or electricity, was this: not only was music physically engraved onto physical objects (m...
School Improves With Help of U.S. Money It May Lose The New York Times | The federal grant had ambitious purpose, few restrictions and a not-so-distant expiration date: three years. With almost $1 million to spend, Brian Rosenbloom, the principal at Chelsea Career and Technical Education High School in SoHo, once one of...
If you love pizza, this is it The Miami Herald | Get thin-crust New York-style pizza with gourmet toppings at I Love Pizza with two hip locations on Miami Beach. The pies, named after places in New York City, are one size only (16 inches) but can be ordered by the slice. There’s the Queens...
The New York (Mayor’s) Review of Books The New York Times | He controls a global publishing empire, but few would call him bookish. His city is a hotbed of writers and critics, but when it comes to literature, he pleads ignorance. Librado Romero/The New York Times | Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg Related | City...
Want a check-up? Trade you for it.... Business Journal Tracey Drury Buffalo Business First Reporter - Business First Email | Here's a cool, new take on a really old tradition. | Uninsured New York City artists and arts workers can now gain access to health care in exchange for their art. | The Lincoln Ar...
Apple announce record sales of iPhones and iPads The Guardian | Technology giant more than doubled profits making $13.06bn (£8.35bn) compared with $6bn for the same quarter in 2010 Apple have announced record profits for the last quarter due to sales of iPads and iPhones. Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty Images | Record sales of iPhones and iPads resulted in record profits at Apple in the final quarter of 2011, ...
Blade-equipped garbage trucks to deploy at midnight Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Starting about midnight, Milwaukee's 120 garbage and recycling trucks will be outfitted with blades to plow city streets, Department of Public Works spokeswoman Cecilia Gilbert. | By Thursday night, 108 salt trucks had been deployed in the City of Milwaukee, with the main streets salted at least three times during the day, Gilbert said. | "The hope...
