May 20, 2013
  • Duly Noted

    Photo credit: Urbanite

    Folks soak in the sun last Friday near Giginos at Wagner Park in lower Manhattan. The AIA Guide calls the building, which is also a viewing platform, "a grand brick sculpture." (Photo by Rolando Pujol)

    * The next chapter in the saga to save a row of small businesses on Ninth Avenue in Chelsea is May 3, when a protest will be held. [Jeremiah's Vanishing New York]

    * Those ubiquitous Star Wars ads around the city have inspired noteworthy subway mashups. [Gothamist]

    * ... and who could miss the Slave Leias at Comic Con. [Vulture]

    * "Look who's talking to Charlie ... Charlie Rose." D.C. expats may remember that jingle from his less highbrow WRC-TV talk show of the early 1980s, but now this video brings the jingle to life. [Gothamist]

    * Illegal advertising blossoms anew, this time for cell phones. [Queens Crap]

    * Last Saturday marked the 81st anniversary of Mae West's imprisonment on Roosevelt Island on a morals rap. [Roosevelt Islander]

    * Remembering the Brooklyn earthquake of 1985. Yep, you read correctly. [OTBKB via Gowanus Lounge]

    * Jeff Koons' sculptures now grace the top of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [Unbeige]

    * And up in Massachusetts, an awesome neon Dunkin Donuts sign from 1957 -- from the era before there was a DD on every block -- is for sale. [Hatch]

    -- Rolando Pujol, Cha

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