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Via Jake Stofle, this creative soda display at Walmart, leading up to Super Bowl XLVI.
If that was beer and not soda, I’d be even more impressed.
Now THIS is a way to display soda.
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CBGBs is Back, Maybe. Gothamist says they have it on good authority that the legendary club, which closed in 2006 and became an NYU gift shop (I think), may be opening soon, with more information coming out in the next few weeks. Where will the new CBs be? Is the East Village of yesterday the same East Village? Will the Community Board let it pass?
-KH
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![Love Bug. At a loss for what to get your love this Valentine’s Day? Candy can be so impersonal; lingerie implies too much; and jewelry is so expensive. The Bronx Zoo is offering the once-a-year chance to name a Madagascar hissing cockroach after your Valentine — the largest member of the roach family! It costs only $10 to name an animal, and you can both go and visit the roaches in a romantic trip to the zoo (if you still have an appetite after, I recommend eating at Dominick’s on Arthur Avenue.) And next time you see a roach crawling around your apartment, think twice before squashing it. It could be somebody’s boyfriend!
-KH
[Bronx Zoo]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyb85bmnTP1qfnxigo1_500.jpg)
Love Bug. At a loss for what to get your love this Valentine’s Day? Candy can be so impersonal; lingerie implies too much; and jewelry is so expensive. The Bronx Zoo is offering the once-a-year chance to name a Madagascar hissing cockroach after your Valentine — the largest member of the roach family! It costs only $10 to name an animal, and you can both go and visit the roaches in a romantic trip to the zoo (if you still have an appetite after, I recommend eating at Dominick’s on Arthur Avenue.) And next time you see a roach crawling around your apartment, think twice before squashing it. It could be somebody’s boyfriend!
-KH
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The UFT Plays Offense. Capital Tonight linked to this video put out by the United Federation of Teachers, highlighting some of Mayor Bloomberg’s education missteps in his ten years in office. To show how serious they are about education, they even used the scary announcer voice.
Also in education news: Seven of the 33 schools slated for closure received As and Bs in the last evaluation. “Not all good grades go on the fridge,” writes the Post.
-KH
[Capital Tonight, New York Post, h/t @azipaybarah]
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Remember when NYC was a s%&*hole? Most of us can’t because we’re not from here. But these pictures are a good look into some of the grossness that was The Big Apple.
Check Steven Siegel’s photos out on Gothamist.
EDIT: Now with the correct link. Thanks, Kate!
Nice shots. Some of us natives were not alive/don’t remember when this was NYC but our parents remind us on a daily basis.
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LifeBike. EV Grieve posts a video from a company called Red Peak, which made a video from something they called a “unique urban experiment.” They tied a bike — bells, basket, lights and all — to a rack and took a photo of it every day for a year. The resulting video shows the bike eventually getting ripped apart (although it took longer than I thought.) They call the project LIFEBICYCLE: 365 days in the life of a New York City bike. Spoiler: The basket is gone by day 214.
-KH
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This wins.
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It’s Alexander Hamilton’s Birthday. Here’s How to Celebrate.
-Take a cab over the Alexander Hamilton Bridge, which crosses the Harlem River and connects Manhattan to the Bronx.
-Take the R to Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn — the neighborhood, not the military base (unless you have credentials like that.) Eat at Arirang, Casa Pepe or the Fort Hamilton Diner.
-Go to his house in Saint Nicholas Park in Harlem. They recently moved it there, and fixed it up. And if you don’t have plans on Saturday, check out the birthday bash the National Park Service is throwing in his honor at the Hamilton Grange.
-Find those rare $10 ATM machines across the city. I saw one two weeks ago on Fulton Street in Bed-Stuy. I saw one a few weeks back at a bodega on Metropolitan Avenue in Middle Village, next to Christ the King High School. Can someone please comment with known locations of Alexander Hamilton Money Machines? (AHMM)
-KH
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![“We all do it,” said the world’s totally coolest 18-year-old to the Daily News. “It just seems to be part of the culture of growing up in New York City.” Who agrees?
-KH
[Daily News]](http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxmvf6bJkx1qfnxigo1_500.jpg)
“We all do it,” said the world’s totally coolest 18-year-old to the Daily News. “It just seems to be part of the culture of growing up in New York City.” Who agrees?
-KH
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You know, something may go down tonight, but it ain’t going to be jobs, sweetheart.
That’s Governor Chris Christie’s response to a heckling protester at a Mitt Romney rally in New Hampshire. Christie continues to perpetuate the New Jersey tough guy jerk stereotype more than any boozing, overtanned guido at the shore. (Or as he calls it, “Jersey Style.”)
-KH
