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		<title>Cokie Roberts Twitter Parody Delights, Then Disappoints</title>

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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2012 16:44:38 -0400</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke</dc:creator>
				
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://observer.com/2012/10/272218/cokieroberts2/" rel="attachment wp-att-272269"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-272269" title="cokieroberts2" alt="" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/cokieroberts2.jpg" height="300" width="198" /></a>Things aren't looking great right now. A<a href="http://observer.com/2012/10/mayor-bloomberg-fears-frankenstorm-will-terrorize-city/"> Frankenstorm is brewing</a>, giving us new portmanteaus and reminding us that we live in a low lying city surrounded by water. <a href="http://observer.com/2012/10/upper-west-side-mother-finds-children-stabbed-police-suspect-nanny/">Horrific crimes are leaving us speechless</a>. A police officer is allegedly <a href="http://observer.com/2012/10/the-strange-case-of-n-y-p-d-officer-gilberto-valle-alleged-wannabe-cannibal/">plotting to eat people</a>. Oh yes, and we are up to our necks in election coverage and <a href="http://observer.com/2012/10/barack-obamas-campaign-emails-are-starting-to-make-us-uncomfortable/">emails from Barack Obama</a>.</p>
<p>But the real depressing news of the day is that Cokie Roberts, the NPR commenter and ABC contributor, is not tweeting about Applebee's.<!--more--></p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/CokieRoberts">@CokieRoberts </a>delighted the world when she apparently mistook Twitter for Google, searching for “Washington dc applebees,” “’washington’ + ‘dc’ + ‘applebees,’” “’washington dc’ + ‘applebees’ + ‘directions,’” “homemade applebees,” and “applebees dessert shooters recipe.”</p>
<p>But @CokieRoberts is fake.  There was a brief window in time a few hours ago when life, despite it's inherent pain and confusion and impending doom, seemed was good. People retweeted. Smiles lit up faces. Twitter was a party. It was a glorious time. It was a simpler time.</p>
<p>And it is no more. Our illusions have been shattered. But whatever happens this weekend, whatever nature throws our way, we can always take comfort in the knowledge that we were so happy once.</p>
<p>And that we spent our last moments on Twitter, fooled by a parody account.</p>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://observer.com/2012/10/272218/cokieroberts2/" rel="attachment wp-att-272269"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-272269" title="cokieroberts2" alt="" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/cokieroberts2.jpg" height="300" width="198" /></a>Things aren't looking great right now. A<a href="http://observer.com/2012/10/mayor-bloomberg-fears-frankenstorm-will-terrorize-city/"> Frankenstorm is brewing</a>, giving us new portmanteaus and reminding us that we live in a low lying city surrounded by water. <a href="http://observer.com/2012/10/upper-west-side-mother-finds-children-stabbed-police-suspect-nanny/">Horrific crimes are leaving us speechless</a>. A police officer is allegedly <a href="http://observer.com/2012/10/the-strange-case-of-n-y-p-d-officer-gilberto-valle-alleged-wannabe-cannibal/">plotting to eat people</a>. Oh yes, and we are up to our necks in election coverage and <a href="http://observer.com/2012/10/barack-obamas-campaign-emails-are-starting-to-make-us-uncomfortable/">emails from Barack Obama</a>.</p>
<p>But the real depressing news of the day is that Cokie Roberts, the NPR commenter and ABC contributor, is not tweeting about Applebee's.<!--more--></p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/CokieRoberts">@CokieRoberts </a>delighted the world when she apparently mistook Twitter for Google, searching for “Washington dc applebees,” “’washington’ + ‘dc’ + ‘applebees,’” “’washington dc’ + ‘applebees’ + ‘directions,’” “homemade applebees,” and “applebees dessert shooters recipe.”</p>
<p>But @CokieRoberts is fake.  There was a brief window in time a few hours ago when life, despite it's inherent pain and confusion and impending doom, seemed was good. People retweeted. Smiles lit up faces. Twitter was a party. It was a glorious time. It was a simpler time.</p>
<p>And it is no more. Our illusions have been shattered. But whatever happens this weekend, whatever nature throws our way, we can always take comfort in the knowledge that we were so happy once.</p>
<p>And that we spent our last moments on Twitter, fooled by a parody account.</p>
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		<title>Whole Foods—and Fatty Foods—Coming to Harlem</title>

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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:57:11 -0400</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Jess Schiewe</dc:creator>
				
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_243670" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://observer.com/2012/06/whole-foods-to-open-in-harlem/union-square-whole-foods/" rel="attachment wp-att-243670"><img class=" wp-image-243670" title="union-square-whole-foods" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/union-square-whole-foods.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="199" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Headed uptown?</p></div></p>
<p>Over the course of the next few years, Harlem will undergo some major plastic surgery.</p>
<p>First up: a facelift.</p>
<p>Earlier this year, Columbia University began construction of their latest Manhattanville campus expansion, a <a href="http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20120111/harlem/video-first-look-inside-columbias-expansion">17-acre, $6.4 billion site in West Harlem</a> which will serve as the future location of the Jerome L. Green Science Center.</p>
<p>“Five years ago we got some peculiar looks before bidding this project out,” executive director of environmental field compliance for Manhattanville development, Ramesh Raman, told <a href="http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20120111/harlem/video-first-look-inside-columbias-expansion">DNAinfo</a>. “Now, good contractors realize this is the wave of the future.”</p>
<p>Second in line: buttock implants.<!--more--></p>
<p>What better way to pad the pockets of national chain eateries—and the fat deposits of locals—then to set up shop in previously unexplored territory? This fall, Applebee’s will become the <a href="http://therealdeal.com/blog/2012/05/31/applebees-becomes-second-chain-restaurant-to-secure-harlem-plot-this-year/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+trdnews+%28The+Real+Deal+-+New+York+Real+Estate+News%29">second chain restaurant</a> to open in Harlem since February. According to <a href="http://therealdeal.com/blog/2012/05/31/applebees-becomes-second-chain-restaurant-to-secure-harlem-plot-this-year/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+trdnews+%28The+Real+Deal+-+New+York+Real+Estate+News%29">The Real Deal</a>, Red Lobster was the first and it will be setting up shop in a space next to the Apollo Theater on 125<sup>th</sup> Street. A few blocks away, in a vacant lot just off FDR Drive, is the site for Applebee’s, which will be the chain’s fourth restaurant in Manhattan and has plans to be LEED certified.</p>
<p>Lastly: the tummy tuck.</p>
<p>At first it was just a rumor, or rather, a slip of the tongue on the part of Whole Foods co-CEO John Mackey who <a href="http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20120601/harlem/whole-foods-has-pick-of-real-estate-crop-if-it-moves-harlem">accidentally mentioned that a new location</a> would “be opening up in Harlem” during a talk at the chain’s new Tribeca store. <a href="http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20120531/harlem/whole-foods-eyeing-harlem-location">According to blogger Max Goldberg</a> who was at the Tuesday event, Mackey then said, “I shouldn’t have said that.”</p>
<p>So, will a Whole Foods be opening up in Harlem? Probably. <a href="http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20120601/harlem/whole-foods-has-pick-of-real-estate-crop-if-it-moves-harlem">A Whole Foods’ spokesman</a> told DNAinfo that the company was “exploring the area” and looking at a “couple of options.”</p>
<p>A site for the new location has yet to be confirmed, but there a number of potential options, including a 160,000 square-foot parking garage on 125<sup>th</sup> Street between Lenox and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard, vacant lots on the north side of 125<sup>th</sup> Street between Lenox and Fifth Avenues, and a possible spot near 132<sup>nd</sup> and 135<sup>th</sup> Streets between Fifth and Lenox Avenues.</p>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_243670" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://observer.com/2012/06/whole-foods-to-open-in-harlem/union-square-whole-foods/" rel="attachment wp-att-243670"><img class=" wp-image-243670" title="union-square-whole-foods" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/union-square-whole-foods.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="199" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Headed uptown?</p></div></p>
<p>Over the course of the next few years, Harlem will undergo some major plastic surgery.</p>
<p>First up: a facelift.</p>
<p>Earlier this year, Columbia University began construction of their latest Manhattanville campus expansion, a <a href="http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20120111/harlem/video-first-look-inside-columbias-expansion">17-acre, $6.4 billion site in West Harlem</a> which will serve as the future location of the Jerome L. Green Science Center.</p>
<p>“Five years ago we got some peculiar looks before bidding this project out,” executive director of environmental field compliance for Manhattanville development, Ramesh Raman, told <a href="http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20120111/harlem/video-first-look-inside-columbias-expansion">DNAinfo</a>. “Now, good contractors realize this is the wave of the future.”</p>
<p>Second in line: buttock implants.<!--more--></p>
<p>What better way to pad the pockets of national chain eateries—and the fat deposits of locals—then to set up shop in previously unexplored territory? This fall, Applebee’s will become the <a href="http://therealdeal.com/blog/2012/05/31/applebees-becomes-second-chain-restaurant-to-secure-harlem-plot-this-year/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+trdnews+%28The+Real+Deal+-+New+York+Real+Estate+News%29">second chain restaurant</a> to open in Harlem since February. According to <a href="http://therealdeal.com/blog/2012/05/31/applebees-becomes-second-chain-restaurant-to-secure-harlem-plot-this-year/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+trdnews+%28The+Real+Deal+-+New+York+Real+Estate+News%29">The Real Deal</a>, Red Lobster was the first and it will be setting up shop in a space next to the Apollo Theater on 125<sup>th</sup> Street. A few blocks away, in a vacant lot just off FDR Drive, is the site for Applebee’s, which will be the chain’s fourth restaurant in Manhattan and has plans to be LEED certified.</p>
<p>Lastly: the tummy tuck.</p>
<p>At first it was just a rumor, or rather, a slip of the tongue on the part of Whole Foods co-CEO John Mackey who <a href="http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20120601/harlem/whole-foods-has-pick-of-real-estate-crop-if-it-moves-harlem">accidentally mentioned that a new location</a> would “be opening up in Harlem” during a talk at the chain’s new Tribeca store. <a href="http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20120531/harlem/whole-foods-eyeing-harlem-location">According to blogger Max Goldberg</a> who was at the Tuesday event, Mackey then said, “I shouldn’t have said that.”</p>
<p>So, will a Whole Foods be opening up in Harlem? Probably. <a href="http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20120601/harlem/whole-foods-has-pick-of-real-estate-crop-if-it-moves-harlem">A Whole Foods’ spokesman</a> told DNAinfo that the company was “exploring the area” and looking at a “couple of options.”</p>
<p>A site for the new location has yet to be confirmed, but there a number of potential options, including a 160,000 square-foot parking garage on 125<sup>th</sup> Street between Lenox and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard, vacant lots on the north side of 125<sup>th</sup> Street between Lenox and Fifth Avenues, and a possible spot near 132<sup>nd</sup> and 135<sup>th</sup> Streets between Fifth and Lenox Avenues.</p>
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