May 8, 2007
IN OTHER WORDS . . .
Special edition of "In Other Words . . ." for you this week; and by special I mean lower quality, shorter, and less inclusive. Jen and Jake's trip out to the west coast was a success, but left me all discombobulated here at lexiphane. That's the excuse I'm using anyway. Long story short: there's been 55 posts over there since the last installment of this feature. I am not linking and captioning each one of them individually. There are a few highlights though:
Images of Old New York
I find a site with a literal treasure trove of historical photographs. The NYC ones alone are worth looking through for hours. Certified Time Waster.
Penny Antics
Race-baiting pol reduce a Chinese take-out worker to tears in front of the media and threatens future jail time to boot. He is called out on his assholery.
Murdoch Bids For Wall Street Journal
NY Post and Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch bids for the most esteemed property in newspaper publishing. We mock up what a News Corp.-owned Journal might look like.
Claremont Academy to Ride Off Into the Sunset
The oldest horse stable in the country, blocks from Central Park, is quickly closed for given reason of overcrowding on the park's bridle trails. Something smells in the stable though, so I suss out the property's prospects for condo development.
Last Ride Out of Claremont
Claremont instructors take the stable's horses out for a final ride around Central Park as onlookers cry and cheer, and lo!, the ink is already drying on the stables' sale to condo developers. Readers and riders cry "horseshit!" in the comments section.
Family, Friends, and Co-workers Pay Tribute to Marvin Franklin
One of two subway track workers killed on the job within days of each other is buried in Queens. The track inspector was also a talented artist whose frequent subjects were the homeless. His death, and the recent death of two homeless people in the subway, are a tragic intersection of two stories.
I'll try not to be so slack in the future about updating posts over there back here. In the meantime, a good link one should probably just bookmark is this one. It's a link-list of all my entries at Gothamist.com.
Posted by Lexiphane at May 8, 2007 10:10 AM
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