The Afternoon Wrap: Friday

Fri, 30 Mar 2007 18:14:56 -0400

Mmmm... spring. It's definitely sprung in Friday's weather. And Save Coney Island took advantage of it to protest at City Hall the plans of Thor Equities for the iconic Brooklyn neighborhood.

[Curbed]

What better way to pass a spring day than tossing "A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean" on the turntable and sitting back with a margarita? Sur La Table, at Crosby and Spring streets, now sells a Jimmy Buffett's Frozen Concoction Maker for just $300. (Lost shaker of salt not included.)

[Gawker]

We don't know how we missed this New York trend, but, apparently, creepy old men have trouble getting single women to visit their apartments. Good to know.

[NY Times]

Prediction: The next few days will be stressful for Yaakov Horowitz. As the chief rabbi at Jersey City-based Manischewitz, the world leader in matzo production, Mr. Horowitz oversees the company's annual production of 75.6 million sheets of matzo--a lot of which will be consumed once Passover starts Monday evening.

[CBS 11]

- Tom Acitelli

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The Afternoon Wrap: Friday