*Everyday Chatter

Starbucks encroaches deeper into the East Village. [EVG]

On saving St. Mark's Books: "I'm not convinced this neighborhood deserves to have a great bookstore... this place is a youth destination for children of means, not an intellectual or countercultural destination anymore." [SLES]

St. Mark's Books in the Daily News. [NYDN]

On Cooper Union's new Astor Place vision: "when completed, the new building will change Astor Place forever--and far more drastically than Gwathmey Siegel's tower... [it] will dwarf all the others and hardly harmonize the jumbled buildings around it." [TRD]

Taking up arms on E. 10th St:


Artists and hipsters forced out of Williamsburg. [Gothamist]

The Beaux Arts Ball parties at the Brooklyn Army Terminal. But what is "loading dock chic" dress? [NYO]

Enjoy Frank's Barber Shop of Staten Island. [LC]

Hope? Fewer people going for MBAs. [NYM]

Carrie Bradshaw will never die. [NYO]

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