By Matt Chaban 8/08/12 2:40pm

Slippery slope

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Skating Into the Bronx

How Exactly Do You Cram Nine Ice Rinks Into a 95-Year-Old Armory, Even One as Big as Kingsbridge?

Easy—just stack them on top of each other.

When Mark Messier first announced his intentions to build a new skating complex inside the Kingsbridge Armory, it sounded crazy. This is the Bronx, after all. When it was revealed there would be eight rinks in total, it sounded insane.

But the Kingsbridge National Ice Center recently launched its social media campaign—what bid for a public project would be complete without one?—and on the project’s Facebook page are a number of models that show exactly how Mr. Messier and his team intend to pull off this wild engineering feat. Read More

By Matt Chaban 2/02/12 10:17am

Slippery slope

His eyes are set on the Bronx. (Sports Illustrated)

An Outer Borough Goal? Hockey Skates Into Brooklyn, the Bronx

New York is not much of a hockey town. The Rangers are the top team in the league right now, and still the awfulness of the Knicks gets more attention. The Super Bowl is sucking up a lot of air time, but even if the Rangers win the Stanley Cup—their first since 1994, second since 1940—the back pages of the tabs will still spend most of their time on off-season baseball news.  Sean Avery’s sartorial choices attract more attention than a Henrik Lundqvist shut out.

Thus The Observer almost slipped on the ice in surprise when two reports surfaced yesterday about hockey coming to some unlikely places. Read More

By Michael Calderone 5/08/06 12:00am

Britney in Noho Slasher

Since Britney Spears first put her Noho penthouse on the market in summer 2004, the pop star married Kevin Federline, gave birth to her first child and is reportedly pregnant once again.

There was also Chaotic, her reality show; a perfume line; innumerable glossy-magazine covers; a greatest-hits collection; divorce rumors; even a flirtation with Read More

By Nick Paumgarten 12/08/97 12:00am

Welcome to Co-opt City! We Really Like You!

Why did the Rangers put on such a show when Mark Messier returned to Madison Square Garden on Nov. 25? Despite everything, they still consider him one of their own.

It was the former captain’s first game back since he and the Rangers parted ways acrimoniously last summer, and many cynics had anticipated that the Read More