― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 02:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Nellie (nellskies), Friday, 13 August 2004 02:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 13 August 2004 02:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 02:10 (twenty years ago) link
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― Jimmy Mod, Man About Towne (ModJ), Friday, 13 August 2004 02:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 02:14 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.chenguin.com/movies2.html
― Paul (scifisoul), Friday, 13 August 2004 02:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Paul (scifisoul), Friday, 13 August 2004 02:58 (twenty years ago) link
And to make things even worse, I'm actually moving into a 16-story Midtown apartment building, because we need more space. It's not exactly my ideal living environment. But it does have laundry in the basement. And it's on a really ugly block anyway, near the Queensboro bridge, so it's not damaging any urban fabric. (excuses, excuses...)
― spittle (spittle), Friday, 13 August 2004 05:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:44 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:49 (twenty years ago) link
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:54 (twenty years ago) link
Can anyone tell me anything about the Turtle Bay area? (If indeed it is an area)
― mzui, Friday, 13 August 2004 12:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Carey (Carey), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:58 (twenty years ago) link
Wow, I am really hungry right now.
― Carey (Carey), Friday, 13 August 2004 13:05 (twenty years ago) link
I'd say, "relax, move to Brooklyn," but y'know, fuck Forest City Ratner.
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 13 August 2004 13:08 (twenty years ago) link
Back to Astor Place, that thing is hella annoying and crap. I agree with Alex.
― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 13 August 2004 13:25 (twenty years ago) link
what's funny is that i've lived on ludlow for three years now, and every year our landlord has LOWERED our rent.
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 13 August 2004 13:26 (twenty years ago) link
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― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 13 August 2004 13:34 (twenty years ago) link
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― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 13 August 2004 13:55 (twenty years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 13 August 2004 14:01 (twenty years ago) link
I mean: is that doughy-looking foreskin thing going to be it? Because I'm sorry I think that's just frickin cool! And I guess I can sort of see how it would be too tall, but hey if you're going to create a gigantic foreskin, build big, baby. Don't let anyone forget what that mohel did to you.
It's not like Astor Place was some kind of down-home human-sized place before this started, either. It's been K-Mart, Starbucks, and Crunch gym hell for YEARS now, if you're inclined to see it that way, and I honestly don't see how this is going to make much of a difference in that regard. St. Marks will continue to be the most annoying street in the entire world. As long as they keep the $11 fade barbershop down there under the street I'll be happyno, HONORED to walk past a 1:28 rendering of a man's most private surgery on the way to getting my follicles chopped.
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 13 August 2004 14:48 (twenty years ago) link
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― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Friday, 13 August 2004 15:12 (twenty years ago) link
I think what I object to the most about the project are the following:
1. Another great area of open space in Manhattan has vanished (or been severely comprimised).2. The martini-swiggin', Eurotrash riff-raff it'll bring into the neighborhood.3. Ian Schrager has enough damn money and enough of a stranglehold on Manhattan already4. Gentrification sucks5. I fear change.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 16:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 17:00 (twenty years ago) link
Gentrify Astor Place?
― Jimmy Mod, Man About Towne (ModJ), Friday, 13 August 2004 17:01 (twenty years ago) link
I meant gentrification as a whole.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 17:01 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.desordre.net/photographie/photographes/robert_frank/astor_place.jpg
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 17:05 (twenty years ago) link
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― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 13 August 2004 17:07 (twenty years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 13 August 2004 17:10 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 13 August 2004 17:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Friday, 13 August 2004 17:18 (twenty years ago) link
Well, yeah, but why make it worse?
Butter is awful. For some reason, I'm on their mailing list, and I cannot for the life of me fathom how that came to be.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 17:20 (twenty years ago) link
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