After 22 years, Splash is closing because "maybe we don’t need gay bars." [Next]
"In our current desire to acquire civil rights equal to the straight community, we have chosen to assimilate and to clean up our act. When I recently explored some of my old haunts, I was amused. The Anvil is now a gentrified, chic restaurant, complete with white linen tablecloths and candles. The waterfront along the Hudson River has become the lovely, serene High Line public park." [HP]
Bloomberg's massive rezoning of Midtown really just not a very good idea. [Curbed]
Latest word on Odessa closing: August 15. I hate this shit. [EVG]
Sex & the City “might as well have been a tourism campaign for a post-Rudolph Giuliani, de-ethnicized Gotham awash in money." --Brett Martin [NYer]
Lovely photos of Hart Island--and its Potter's Field. [UC]
Romy: "Some of the changes in the city are small ones, but they can be so incomprehensible when I encounter them suddenly that I feel the way I do when I stand up too fast." [WIC]
New shots from NYC in the 90s. [NYC90s]
"The average weekly wage in Manhattan during the first quarter of last year was $2,464. The next highest borough was Queens at $877. Now that's a disparity!" --Brian Lehrer [WNYC]
Houston St. parking lot sold--another tower to come? [BI]
Friends of the High Line "is dominated by a wealthy and politically connected coterie of real estate developers and property owners, which has poured hundreds of thousands of dollars, directly and as intermediaries, into Christine Quinn’s mayoral election campaign." [C&S]
Look up zombies! [BB]
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