Dan Biederman, head of a half-dozen BIDs and civic organizations (one of the city’s shadow mayors!) has been steadfast in his support of the re-engineering of midtown streets at the hands of the Bloomberg administration, even when it rankled many of his constituents. The passion shows in a brash, even scathing, interview with Streetsblog, where Mr. Biederman calls out a couple hacks. Read More
Cutting Fashion Week out of the line-up will cost the nonprofit organization that runs Bryant Park $1.3 million a year, its president says, but it hopes to compensate by charging other sponsors more.
Dan Biederman said the Bryant Park Corporation decided in September to oust the twice-yearly Fashion Week because it was Read More
On Jan. 16, the toilet-paper manufacturer Cottonelle introduced the Fresh Rollwipe, the planet’s inaugural, fully flushable moist bathroom tissue on a roll. In a boast that would have made Thomas Crapper blush, the company hailed the Fresh Rollwipe as the “first major toilet paper innovation in over 100 years.”
Well, we shall see, cocky Read More
The folks who’ve brought you the new global marketplace must be getting a little nervous. Maybe somebody advised the literate among them to take a peek, fearful though it may be, through the collected works of colleague and friend Michael M. Thomas. Perhaps the traders and brokers and assorted whatnots on Wall Street observed the Read More
