Governor Cuomo’s Ultimatum Leaves Con Ed Execs Without Bonuses

May 2nd, 2013 by Julia Musto

This past weekend, Gothamist reported that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo recently released a statement about the bonus checks given to Con Edison employees for their work during Hurricane Sandy.

Four executives–including president of the gas and power subsidiary, Craig Ivey, Chief Financial Officer Robert Hoglund, and utility’s general counsel Elizabeth Moore–were given $614,000 in bonus pay. The New York Post said that the company claimed that they deserved these bonuses for supervising ”significant challenges” six months ago.

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I’m Dancing As Fast As I Can… Within The Designated Space Allowed: Street Performers Face Harsher Restrictions in NYC Parks

April 24th, 2013 by Julia Musto

Beginning May 8, our local street performers will face further rules and restrictions. Last December The Huffington Post reported that there was a likelihood of enforcements of fines for street performers. A new rule was officially instituted over a year ago but park officials have only started to enforce them.

DNAinfo reported that starting May 8, The Department of Parks and Recreation will require even the best of the city’s donation-seeking street performers to perform in designated areas in Union Square Park, Battery Park, the High Line, and specific spots in Central Park or face a $250 fine minimum.

Performers are required to set up at least 50 feet away from any monuments, fountains, or public art installations, as well as more than five feet away from and park or street furniture. In the future, this could definitely become an issue in our lovely Washington Square Park what with our fountain and the number of performers in our park.

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Fordham Student Attempts To Recreate “Replyallcalypse”

April 22nd, 2013 by Julia Musto

Here at NYU we are trendsetters; we set the bar and we raise the bar. So it comes as no surprise that there would be other schools wanting to follow in our footsteps. On Saturday, Senior Lucas Bifera became the new Max Wiseltier when he conducted his own “Replyallcalypse” experiment and sent around 7,000 students a constant stream of debauchery.

Gothamist reported that approximately 120 emails were sent to the entire school system before the Fordham IT Communications team disabled the list. They solved the problem after only one hour of receiving pictures of sloths and terribly cheesy jokes. The administration later sent out an email explaining what had happened, and reassuring the student body that they were not being hacked.

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West Village Dessert Eaters Might All Have Hepatitis A (But Probably Don’t)

April 8th, 2013 by Julia Musto

Yesterday the NYU student body received an e-mail from Dr. Carlo Ciotoli, the Director of the Student Health Center. After reading the e-mail you might have realized that you stopped in the Mediterranean Alta restaurant while your parents were visiting for a quick nosh and a night cap, and somehow contracted a strain of hepatitis A, or were exposed to it. We, at NYU Local, certainly hope not.

According to The Huffington Post and DNA Info, a food handler and pastry chef who prepared desserts at Alta Restaurant contracted the virus during her trip to Mexico. This restaurant is on 10th street near 6th Avenue, which is not too far from campus.

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Chinese Toddler Snags Sweet $6.5 Million Dollar Pad, Unfortunately Doesn’t Know That Midtown Is Over

April 1st, 2013 by Julia Musto

This past week senior vice president at Sotheby’s International, Kevin Brown, revealed to a Chinese state television (CCTV) broadcaster that he helped a currently anonymous woman buy a $6.5 million dollar NYC apartment for her daughter. Here’s the kicker: her daughter is two years old. The mother explained that her daughter will most likely go to NYU, Columbia, or Harvard in 16 years and that she needed to be in the center of the city for an all-pass access to an easy commute (or one bitch of an Amtrak ride.)

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John Sexton Talks God, Love And Home Base On The Colbert Report

March 8th, 2013 by Ava Kiai and Julia Musto

Last night, John Sexton won an impromptu installment of The Bachelor when he guest starred on The Colbert Report to discuss his class-turned-book Baseball As A Road To God: Seeing Beyond The Game.

After an extended lead-in to the final interview segment of the show, which included a montage mocking the histrionic pauses of The Bachelor, Sexton and another “contestant” entered the set book-in-hand from a hidden door and stood shoulder-to-shoulder eagerly anticipating who will “win” the interview spot.

“One of you will be my guest tonight, the other will be going home,” Colbert said. Cue Colbert whipping out a rose and over one minute of Bachelor-style camera shots of a faces glazed over with anticipation and close-ups of a newly blossomed Scarlet Carson. Read more…


On Losing A Friend In College

February 20th, 2013 by Julia Musto

Your phone rings on a late Sunday afternoon, and you grab it to check who is calling. It’s someone you haven’t really talked to lately and so you’re kind of weirded out, but also sort of interested. The first words out of their mouth are, “Hi, are you okay?” Confused, you ask why and notice that they seem taken aback at your question. Pausing, they say slowly, “He is dead. Our friend is dead.” That feeling you get after hearing that statement said out loud is, at first, bewilderment. It turns into shock pretty quickly after hearing it repeated and confirming that it’s actually true. Some people don’t react right away, and some sob uncontrollably immediately after.

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NYU Langone Reopens With Tension

February 4th, 2013 by Julia Musto

Not everyone knows how hard NYU’s Langone Medical Center worked in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. More than 6,000 patients were forced to leave their hospital beds during the storm, and the back-up power generator went out at NYU Langone, forcing evacuation.

While now most of NYU Langone is back up and running, Sandy cost NYU $1.2 billion. WNYC reported that though funding from FEMA, the National Institutes of Health and NYU’s insurance policies should help recover between the next two to five years. The question still looms whether NYU will lose some of the patients and staff who sought refuge at Beth Israel or Mount Sinai. Around 500 NYU doctors left for other hospitals during the storm–and most have returned–but more than a dozen have applied for permanent privileges at other hospitals.

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Foursquare Sheds Light and Hope Even In the Darkest Corners of Bobst

December 14th, 2012 by Julia Musto

Been in Bobst so long your butt cheeks are permanently molded into your seat? Have you memorized your walk to the nearest restroom so you can sleepwalk there and take a five second mental break from your piles of papers and computer screen that you’re pretty sure keeps flashing “KILL EVERYONE AROUND YOU” when you stare at it too long. This Sunday, Foursquare invites all you finals-week-zombies to leave the dark cavernous rooms of our great library, and venture outside for the Mudtruck. On Sunday the 16th at 1 pm, those who check in with Foursquare will receive a free cuppa Mud coffee.

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Washington Square Local Makes Its Debut

December 10th, 2012 by Julia Musto

This past Sunday, Dec. 9, a new NYU media outlet made its debut. Washington Square Local had been tweeting since December 7th. Now with fifty-two Twitter followers and over eighty likes on its Facebook page, the site has started to garner attention within the NYU Community.

Founded by Ryan Connors (Tisch ’15), Roy Luo (Stern ’15), Griffin Simpson (LSP ’15), Charlie Ambler (Gallatin ’15), Cameron Mattis (Tisch ’15) and Max Gorden (LSP ’15), the site has been deemed The Onion of the NYU Community. Using WordPress, dry humor, and the little they knew about social media, the six managed to gather a staff comprised of “the best damn journalists alive as well as the rotting corpse of Hunter S. Thompson.” In a later statement they said, “All our writers are alcoholics, our publishers are sexual deviants, and our editors are dead.”

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