The Afternoon Wrap: Wednesday

  • Williamsburg becomes a multi-millionaire! A condo price record has been set at an un-Mannhattanish $3.8 Million, which means the neighborhood is no longer “an unpretentious, un-yuppified (read affordable) place to live.” McCarren’s Aurora is the perpetrator. [NY Mag]
  • Why is Peter Schein’s 3,200-square-foot loft on the eighth floor of 497 Greenwich Street Read More

  • May 18, 2005 – May 25, 2005

    Wednesday 18th

    May is the new April! Other lessons learned this week: Not every woman can pull off the blousy-tunic-over-jeans look; starlets continue to shrink; men don’t like it when you chomp down on their nuts; and it’s not a cold, it’s allergies. O.K .! Tonight is a special one for those in catty media Read More

    Jonathan Richman on the Bowery

    “When I was 19,” Jonathan Richman sang to the crowd at the Bowery Ballroom, “I was over-intellectual … I was such a little brat.” Then he grinned his goofy, mournful grin, reeled back from the microphone and launched into another acoustic 1-4-5 guitar solo, for “Nineteen in Naples.”

    Now 48, Mr. Richman has a Read More