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Manhattan Man Sues Gym After Slipping on 'Foreign White Substance' in Sauna
Cuomo to Investigate Legislators After Campaign Finance Reform Fails
Stratasys Is Acquiring MakerBot for $403M in Stock
Ellen Biddle Shipman's Beekman Place Townhouse House Fetches $35 M.
Prospective Mayors Spar on Transportation Policy
'Grab Her Hand and Put it Right on Your Dick:' Redditor Successfully Kickstarts His Terrible Dating Book
To Do Wednesday: Pig Out in the Park
Manhattan Man Sues Gym After Slipping on ‘Foreign White Substance’ in Sauna
That’s an icky situation.
In a cringe-inducing lawsuit, Manhattanite Mark Moskowitz is suing Bally Total Fitness for injuries incurred when he slipped in the sauna in their E 55st location.
His lawsuit he claims that the slip was caused by a “foreign white substance.” Use your imagination folks.
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Cuomo to Investigate Legislators After Campaign Finance Reform Fails
Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday that he will follow through on his threat to create a Moreland Commission to investigate state legislators after they failed to come to a deal on a proposed new public campaign financing system the governor has tried to sell as an anti-corruption bill.
“That is the direction I am planning to proceed,” Mr. Cuomo told reporters at a press conference in Albany this afternoon, as the legislative session winds to a close. Read More
Stratasys Is Acquiring MakerBot for $403M in Stock
First Tumblr, and now comes another sizable New York City exit. Turns out the whimsical MakerBot won’t be raising a round, after all, because the desktop 3D-printing startup is being acquired by publicly traded behemoth Stratasys, for $403 million in stock. (Of course, that’s just the initial value, based on today’s $84.60 closing price for shares of Stratasys stock.) Stakeholders qualify for additional performance-based earnouts, with an initial total value of $201 million. Read More
Ellen Biddle Shipman’s Beekman Place Townhouse House Fetches $35 M.
New York is a city with many fabulous townhouses, but for those who desire a manse on the East River, the options are few. One of the rare houses to come on the market in recent years—if one does not count Gracie Mansion, which Christine Quinn et al are now vying to take possession of—is the Ellen Biddle Shipman mansion at 21 Beekman Place, which was listed in late September. So The Observer was not particularly surprised when we learned that a buyer has already snapped up the former home of the late, trailblazing landscape architect.
“There is not in all New York another piece of property like it, for it has the seclusion of Beekman Place, southern exposure, beauty of architecture combined with the extended view of the East River,” Biddle once of the neighborhood that she helped mold into the fashionable district after buying 21 Beekman in 1919. The buyer, whose identity remains a mystery (at least until the sale hits public records), apparently agreed with Shipman, given that he or sale paid $35 million for the the furnished home, according to sources familiar with the deal.
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Prospective Mayors Spar on Transportation Policy
At a Democratic mayoral forum this morning focusing on New York City’s transportation policies, the candidates often agreed on many of the issues–stated support for bike lanes, for example–but starkly disagreed when it came to several topics, including school bus contracts.
Setting up the dispute, former Comptroller Bill Thompson, the leading candidate for the teachers’ union endorsement set to be announced later this afternoon, defended pricey school bus driver contracts and provisions that protect current employees. Read More
Love in the Time of Algorithms
‘Grab Her Hand and Put it Right on Your Dick:’ Redditor Successfully Kickstarts His Terrible Dating Book
Are you a foreveralone munching on Cheetos in your mom’s basement, wondering how to get women to touch your penis? Good news: Ken Hoinsky, whom you might know as “TofuTofu” on Reddit, has drawn up a comprehensive dating guide to help teach guys everywhere how to “get awesome with women”–and also make creepy unwanted advances on them. Read More
To Do Wednesday: Pig Out in the Park
Prepare the juice cleanse: at the Central Park Conservancy’s annual “Taste of Summer,” dozens of fancy food tables amount to a cavalcade of calories. Gourmet grub is provided by the 21 Club, Armani Ristorante, La Esquina, PJ Clarke’s, Sirio Ristorante, Swifty’s and Tulsi, to name a few. Those with fat wallets and hungry tummies who Read More
‘Quinoa Doesn’t Just Live A Modern Fairy Tale, She Wears One’: Imaginary Mom Loves Imaginary Well-Dressed Toddler Daughter
Toddler fashion has a new face, and her name is Quinoa.
Quinoa is basically just your typical preteen–a hip firecracker with flawless style, razor-sharp wit and private school credentials.
Her playmates are named Elias, Hawkeye, Jasper and Chevron. Her look has been emulated by the likes of Heidi Klum and Rachel Zoe, and she reads Read More
iHookers? ‘Transgender Sex Workers’ May Really Love the Meatpacking Apple Store
Apple’s latest slogan may have promised “All the power you want, all day long,” but we doubt this is what it meant.
According to a new column in The Villager, the Apple Store at 14th and 9th is apparently very popular with transgender sex workers, who like to use the facilities for its central Read More
So Much For Picnics: Union Square Park To Get Classy, Controversial Restaurant
Fine dining is officially on the menu in the Union Square Park Pavilion.
On Tuesday, a state appeals court ruled that Union Square’s popular pop-up holiday bazaar can continue to operate, ending a five-year attempt by the Union Square Community Coalition to eliminate commercial uses of the park, DNAinfo reported. The new Read More
