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daisy14755
10/22/09

In reply to The Recession Map of NoLIta: Updated
Thank you, Gawker, for doing more than most other media outlets to bring home the hideous financial reality that "everything is FUBAR" (a World War 2 Army slang term for "fu@ked up beyond all recognition," and how cool is it to know that our dorky parents and grandparents employed wicked, Gawkeresque humor during their own dark days?).

Yeah, I know this sounds suck-uppy, but, other than Gawker, HuffPo and MichaelMoore.com, everyone else in the media is afraid to spill the real beans that this is a depression. And if you think it's awful here in NYC, my friends who live out there beyond the bridges, out there in America, wish to assure us that the recession is equally scary there too.

We in the media just have the added fillip of seeing our careers crumble because of structural as well as cyclical declines.

So, is anyone going to The Showdown in Chicago to get tear gassed and have their ears split by LRAD sonic crowd control bombs by government storm troopers outside the bankers' convention next Monday? Like they did to the protesters at the G20 in Pittsburgh last month? Sounds like it's going to quite the scene. #recessionomics
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the_marquee_de_lafayette
10/22/09

In reply to The Recession Map of NoLIta: Updated
Note also that the Spring Lounge's sale (aka Happy Hour) continues unabated. No word on whether business might actually be up.

It's just a shame that Delicatessen appears to be in no trouble at all. #recessionomics
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Mediahohoho
10/22/09

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Bluegrass Brunch at Nolita House, 47 East Houston, is still booming every Sunday. #recessionomics
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Bryan Keller
10/22/09

@Mediahohoho: That's a great brunch. Good to bring visitors to, as well. #recessionomics
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Mediahohoho
10/22/09

@Bryan Keller: I agree! #recessionomics
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Niko Bellic
10/22/09

In reply to The Recession Map of NoLIta: Updated
So, Cafe Colonial is having a sale? #recessionomics
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ithacabaron
09/14/09

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"It's practically standing still now. They've dropped ropes out of the nose of the ship; and (uh) they've been taken ahold of down on the field by a number of men. It's starting to rain again; it's... the rain had (uh) slacked up a little bit. The back motors of the ship are just holding it (uh) just enough to keep it from...It's burst into flames! It burst into flames, and it's falling, it's crashing! Watch it! Watch it! Get out of the way! Get out of the way! Get this, Charlie; get this, Charlie! It's fire... and it's crashing! It's crashing terrible! Oh, my! Get out of the way, please! It's burning and bursting into flames and the... and it's falling on the mooring mast. And all the folks agree that this is terrible; this is the one of the worst catastrophes in the world. [indecipherable] its flames... Crashing, oh! Four- or five-hundred feet into the sky and it... it's a terrific crash, ladies and gentlemen. It's smoke, and it's in flames now; and the frame is crashing to the ground, not quite to the mooring mast. Oh, the humanity! and all the passengers screaming around here. I told you; it—I can't even talk to people Their friends are out there! Ah! It's... it... it's a... ah! I... I can't talk, ladies and gentlemen. Honest: it's just laying there, mass of smoking wreckage. Ah! And everybody can hardly breathe and talk and the screaming. Lady, I... I... I'm sorry. Honest: I... I can hardly breathe. I... I'm going to step inside, where I cannot see it. Charlie, that's terrible. Ah, ah... I can't. Listen, folks; I... I'm gonna have to stop for a minute because [indecipherable] I've lost my voice. This is the worst thing I've ever witnessed."
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miss_msry
09/15/09

@ithacabaron:

Oh, the inanity!

Seriously, I thought DirecTV used satellites.
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b4nt4
07/20/09

In reply to Colorful Morning
i woke up around dawn this morning for a few minutes and was admiring how pretty the sky was too.
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Swifter
07/20/09

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Red sky at morning, Denton take warning.

Red sky at night, Lawson's delight.
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k122n
07/20/09

@Swifter: so, win/win?
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HiredGoons
05/05/09

In reply to Magic Manhattan Maps
thar be a lot of urine running in those streets.
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depardoo
05/05/09

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This is pretty much how the City looks after two or three stiff drinks.
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i'm a bottle
05/05/09

@depardoo: You're a cheap date!
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i'm a bottle
05/05/09

@i'm a bottle: God, I really have to stop dating alcoholics.
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mslewis
04/09/09

In reply to Five Price-Slashed Manhattan Mansions You Still Can't Afford
I wonder if they have elevators. I refuse to walk up five floors.
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lobstr
04/09/09

@mslewis: yeah, let alone seven.. fuck that..
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TedSez
04/09/09

In reply to Five Price-Slashed Manhattan Mansions You Still Can't Afford
In ritzy areas across the country, property owners still can't get their minds around the fact that if their homes tripled or quadrupled in value over the past decade, prices have a lot farther to fall in the post-bubble world than the paltry 20% or 30% "discounts" they've grudgingly been assigning them. If anyone bought one of these properties -- or far lesser ones, for that matter -- at the asking price now, they'd be in for some major, major losses.
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Gabriel Snyder
04/09/09

In reply to Five Price-Slashed Manhattan Mansions You Still Can't Afford
My desk at the Observer used to be right where whoever took that photo is standing.
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allyzay
04/09/09

In reply to Five Price-Slashed Manhattan Mansions You Still Can't Afford
i am looking for a residence that can house an entire otter habitat in its ground floor -- do you think the institution/school/private club would be big enough for that?
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
04/09/09

@allyzay: otterZ!!!!
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The Real JR
04/09/09

In reply to Five Price-Slashed Manhattan Mansions You Still Can't Afford
Or, for the same money you can probably buy The Carter up in Harlem which takes up the whole block and run your empire from there.

Rockabye, Baby! Nino Brown 4eva!
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Thatcornellguy
02/18/09

In reply to The Recession Map of NoLIta
Never would I have imagined that a gossip site would make such efficient use of GIS. Well done intern Whitney!
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