Developer Bruce Ratner, who has been using the promise of moving the NJ Nets to Brooklyn as a way to build public support for his mega-monster Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn (without the Nets, it would be just another cold-blooded eyesore like Metro Tech) now intimates he may move his Nets to Queens.
As part of his review of Ruthie’s, a soul food place in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, Famous Fat Dave, ubiquitous food blogger, filmed a homeless guy trying to crash the restaurant for collared greens. Another reason we find the Times increasingly boring.
People who live on traffic-congested blocks have suckier lives. This according to a new, and pretty thorough study by Tranportation Alternatives.
If a nine-year-old is bludgeoned to death, and there’s no one there to hear it, does she die? The non-saga of the bludgeoning death of 9-year-old Mariah Navarro and her mother, Maria River, continues. The two were found dead in their West Harlem apartment two days ago. Yesterday, in an explosion of interest, the girl’s name appearing a whopping 8 times in Google, including another page 24 mention in the New York Post (ex-con boyfriend held i the murders). Recharger realizes it’s so yesterday to complain about racist news coverage, and that it would be so much more fun to talk about the Sky Mirror (81,400 Google hits), or dead Yankee pitcher Corey Lidle (346,000 Google hits), or even Project Runway (3,343,000 hits) than the sad death of a 9-year-old Hispanic girl, but maybe the newsies could find salacious here--torture, sex abuse--to widen coverage?