Early Monday morning, thousands of fans gathered in the East Village to watch a Kanye West pop-up show that never happened, because the crowd was too big. It was a problem big enough for the mayor himself, so Kanye called him up at 2 a.m.
The New York Times reports that Wall Street investment firm and national landlord The Blackstone Group is about to buy Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village—at 11,232 units across 110 buildings, the largest apartment complex in Manhattan—for around $5.4 billion.
New York mayor Bill de Blasio's two-car caravan was caught on camera speeding through stop signs on Thursday, just a few days after the mayor suggested lowering the speed limit as part of a new traffic safety initiative.
