Care about your first amendment rights? Today is a good day to show it at 4PM at City Hall. James has more details.
I’m a bad activist and can’t leave the computer today.
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Parade without a permit
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Spotted in the subway station near PS1
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Icky fundraising from the Central Park Conservancy
I received a fundraising letter from the Central Park Conservancy (the people that raise money to maintain Central Park since the city doesn’t spend enough and there are rich people living near the park) with this on the envelope:
Central Park Perks … since People like you deserve Perks like these
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Those owners of expensive Trump Tower apartments must be proud
When I wrote about Gucci and Trump, and the resulting diminishment of Gucci’s brand, it hadn’t even occurred to me that the entrance of the tower would look like this. Sorry for the crappy photo. It was too cold to worry much about how I was holding my cell phone.
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Life under occupation
Spotted on 27th Street in Chelsea
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New loan fund for arts organizations
Again from newyorkbusiness.com…
NYC Investment Fund offers arts loans
The New York City Investment Fund, an affiliate of the Partnership for New York City, said Monday that it has teamed up with the state Arts Council to launch a new $2 million loan program.
The initiative — dubbed the Arts Entrepreneurial Loan Fund — aims to fund arts and nonprofit groups, including dance troupes, art, music and theater groups and other art-related programs, throughout the five boroughs.
The loans, which will range from $25,000 to $500,000, will provide funding aimed at lowering the nonprofit’s overhead.
“Arts groups frequently contribute to revitalization of the city’s most blighted neighborhoods, but this sector is threatened by rising costs and growing competition for scarce philanthropic dollars,” said Maria Gotsch, co-chief executive and co-president of the $100 million New York City Investment Fund.
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Nothing says happy new year like…
having one’s windows rattled by NYPD helicopters. Perhaps they should spend some of those fuel dollars on giving the NYPD better salaries. The starting salary for a new cop? $25K.
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Wait, we’ll come up with a reason soon
“concrete liberty hurdles” at Madison Square Garden
August 31, 2004
photo by James WagnerFrom today’s New York Times:
City Fights Efforts to Release 2004 Convention Arrest Records
Faced with lawsuits from hundreds of people arrested during the 2004 Republican National Convention, the Bloomberg administration is fighting to keep secret a vast array of records, testimony and videotapes collected that week.
The city contends the materials could be embarrassing to people who were arrested, disclose police intelligence, or reveal environmental conditions that may hurt commercial development on the West Side waterfront or be useful to terrorists.
In addition, the city lawyers said that medical reports from police officers who complained of getting sick after working at a temporary holding pen were “unreliable” and “likely to contain misinformation.”
They’re just throwing out excuses hoping one will stick. Given that a huge number of people were arrested just for walking down neighborhood streets at the wrong time (many of them not protesters), the city has big payouts coming. Perhaps someone can ask Bloomberg to donate some of his money instead of making the taxpayers of New York pay for his attempt to cozy up to the Republicans and their convention.
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Body on the platform
James and I went to a couple of openings last night at Apex and KS Art before seeing Adam Bock’s play Thugs at Soho Rep. Before I distract you too much, tickets to the play are only $15, and I recommend seeing it if you’re interested at all in theater, or if you ever worked as a temp in NYC. Our friend Anne Kauffman directed it. It’s described on the website:
Mysterious things are happening on the 9th floor of a big law firm. What could a new temp have to fear? A new play about work, thunder, and people you don’t know.
It’s quite like a music chamber piece in form.
On the way home around 9, the Eighth Avenue trains were running express. They said it was due to some kind of “passenger emergency.” We decided to take the A to 34th and walk back down to our apartment. As we passed through the 14th Street station, we saw plenty of cops, some yellow tape, and a body bag on the platform plus some amount of blood. When things like that happen, one always expects to come home and see all kinds of headlines, but it’s strange that it actually takes a while for what seem like pretty shocking events to show up in the media, whether online or on NY1.
Today, the New York Daily News has the story.
A man trying to board a crowded C train between cars was crushed to death last night when the train started moving and he became wedged against the platform, police said.
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One of the many stupid things I’ve seen lately
My thanks to fellow flickr Chelsea Pool member musiquegirl for the photos. Now we’re using traffic signs and huge amounts of the street to warn about fake IDs?
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