Lost City
19 October 2008

Hard Times/Time Square

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I met up with an associate last week who works in Times Square. We were talking about the broken economy. She pointed out the old Lehman Bro...

Goodbye, Frozen Cup, I Never Knew Thee

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Queens Crap alerts me to the disappearance of a City landmark that I never experienced, but know I would have loved—if only for its name, F...

Boss Bloomberg Spreads the Wealth

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It is regrettable and infuriating that, in a time of political and economic insecurity, times in which anxiety and concern for the future ar...
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18 October 2008

Parade of Bought Voices

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From City Room 's live coverage of the City Hall hearing on a change to the term limits law that would allow Bloomberg to run again, an ...
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17 October 2008

Bloomberg Forces Charity to Begin at Home

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His out-and-out villainy continues. One of the best things about Bloomberg was always that way he quietly gave millions in charitable gifts ...
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Juicy Anti-Term-Limit-Repeal Comments

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Good job, City Room ! The New York Times blog is reporting live as City Council hears testimony on a change to the term limits law that woul...
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New York Times Gets Around to Tin Pan Alley Story

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More than a week after the Tin Pan Alley sale story broke here, the New York Times has finally addressed the issue, both in City Room blog ...
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The Holiest Business in Brooklyn

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Vinnie's Iron Works in Cobble Hills has a little extra something going for it. Not location, not customer loyalty, not lucrative contrac...
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A Good Sign: Starlite Deli

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The Starlite, on W. 44th between Broadway and Eighth, is one of the older small businesses to be found on the sidestreets of Times Square. T...
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Scary

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Skeleton? Or a real estate broker trying to sell you a $2,200-a-month, second-floor studio "with balcony" in "Carroll Gardens...
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Brooks of Sheffield
New York City, New York
I have lived in New York City since 1988 and earn my bread as a writer. I began this blog in January 2006. Beyond that, don't be so nosy. "I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism." —Roberto Rossellini
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