The projects that Richard Lipsky has killed over the years stare down from his office walls like the stuffed moose heads with which Teddy Roosevelt once decorated the State Dining Room. There’s a framed newspaper clipping about the Pathmark in Queens; another about the Costco on the West Side; there are a few pieces about Read More
Richard Lipsky at the Neighborhood Retail Alliance got a hold of a survey Wal-Mart did earlier this year of Staten Island voters. The results? Costco beats Sam’s Club, former BEEP Molinari trumps Bloomberg, and Wal-Mart will get further by advertising the 350 jobs a store would bring than by crowing about low prices.(PDF) Read More
1) An Epiphany in Jumbo’s Clown Room
Who is that clown? I’m staring at the face of a porcelain clown head, all shiny, rouged and red-nosed. And I’m thinking: I know that clown.
The kandy-kolored clown head I’m fixated on is one of dozens of porcelain and plastic clown heads that line the back Read More
