City - Friday, October 10, 2008 12:38 - 6 Comments

Wall Street Bull the Victim of (Hilarious) Vandalism

Gothamist (via Buzzfeed) reported that Wall Street’s statue of a bull is in desperate need of relief.  An anonymous vandal spray-painted the Wall Street’s bull’s balls blue (say that three times fast), and a few hours later, it had been washed down and (in my imagination) massaged back to its original state.  I would have loved – LOVED – to have watched that clean-up process that, in my fantasies, was done by two macho Staten Island cops, each taking one congested testicle.  When will the Dow stop crumbling in its “historic slide” and the US will no longer have to fear a second Depression?  Maybe when we admit that we’re already in it.  Oh but… good work, nameless soldier of political truth.  Balls are funny!

Photo from Gothamist

City - Monday, October 6, 2008 10:28 - 5 Comments

G-Ho’s Bike Shop Neighbor Next to Die Out

Greenwich Hotel is losing its least pretentious neighbor (not counting St. Luke’s) as The Hub Station, the community bike shop on Morton Street between Greenwich and Hudson, will be closing soon. I talked to the owner of the store (and his incredibly human-like dog, Scout), and he said the lease is up and the rent is doubling, so they’re still trying to find a new location.

Sexton talks about our school’s high standard of intertwining the experience of living in New York with the NYU education, but just as we make businesses thrive, we also cause them to wither up and die. And to be honest, I’ve learned nothing so far from G-Ho’s neighbor, the Archive (and I hate buildings – other than dorms, of course – that have their own names). The Hub Station brought both business and a sense of communal warmth to the neighborhood, which will now probably be brought back somewhere to the East Village which, of course, is also falling victim to more rich white people.

Photo by Frank H Jump