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Completely unsubstantiated but thrilling rumors from the mailbag! "My coworker's girlfriend was just told not to come to work at a Union Square gift booth b/c they are evacuating and roping off the whole area b/c of mysterious white powder." You heard the email box: WHITE TERROR POWDER DRIFTS INTO XMAS SHOPZONE! XMAS CANCELED! NO ADORABLE SWEATERS FOR RUDOLPH, COMET, CUPID!
Scaffolding collapse at 915 Broadway and 21st Street! Or actually near-collapse! Firemen on a crane, dismantling! Block closed down! New York Observer reporters forced to take freight elevator in back of building! Take-home message: Don't take a cab down Broadway south of 23rd Street, not that you should anyway, because that is a TERRIBLE route no matter where you're going because of the way Broadway dumps out into Union Square, obviously, but it is totes particularly bad right now! UPDATE: OOH, PICTURE!
crime
Halloween Shoot-Out In Union Square
If you were downtown last night at 1 a.m., perhaps you noticed the insane volume of the siren of every emergency vehicle in the city converging on somewhere? Now we know that they were all headed to Union Square, where four people were shot and one was stabbed not long after midnight. The Daily News says 4 to 6 shots fired and hundreds of fleeing people in the park; the Post says 8 shots. No one was killed—but, adding insult to injury, some of the poor shootees were taken to Bellevue Hospital.
Actually! You know what's really great? The story in this week's New York mag about the crew who works at Trader Joe's on 14th Street. "Today's crew includes a filmmaker, an actor, two fashion students, two painters, a film-production intern, and a martial artist. They're mostly college graduates—University of Washington, New York University, the University of Maine—here with dreams of making it in the city's bourgeois bohemia, but currently stuck serving it hummus." The whole thing is awesome. [NY]
From the mailbag, regarding Union Square: "I think the helicopters might have something to do with Bill Clinton signing autographs down at the Barnes and Noble over there." Insert your own sinkhole joke here.
our crumbling infrastructure
Union Square Sucks
Two from the mailbag! "I live by Union Square and have been serenaded by helicopters (sounds like 3 or 4) for the past half hour or so - doesn't seem to be stopping any time soon. What the hell is going on??? I'm used to the sirens and helicopters 24/7 but usually they come and go...they're hovering right over Union Square it looks like." Asked and answered! "A sinkhole seems to be swallowing the backend of a dept of sanitation garbage truck on w17th st btw 5th and 6th. BLTFish customers are shuffling by nonchalantly, still intent on their roasted halibut." Yep, it's official, the city is falling apart.
Live near Union Square and need to make a little extra cash? CollegeHumor jillionaire Zach Klein will slip you a crisp new Benjamin Franklin each month to use your shower and occasionally watch your TV. It's like a modern-day Billy Wilder movie! Apply now! [Zach Klein]
danny meyer, so much to answer for
Union Square, Ruined
IN the taxonomy of New York City, the mere mention of a certain neighborhood conjures an image of its local tribe: the Williamsburg hipster. The meatpacking district club-goer. The Park Slope Earth Mama. But whom does Union Square conjure?Well, according to the Times, which posed the question this weekend, health-conscious, yoga-studying, post-hippie freaks with disposable cash and a willingness to spend it on crap like organic dry cleaning and wheatgrass smoothies. More »
utter randomness
Holding Up A Cardboard Sign Is The New MySpace
This is Mike. Right now, Mike is standing in Union Square holding up a sign that says "I Want A Girlfriend." We sent our intrepid man-on-the-street reporter, Bennett Madison, to find out what qualifies Mike for romance, and we got some answers. Ladies, you might want to bum-rush Union Square right now: not only will Mike buy you more gum if you drop yours in a puddle, but he has not seen Britney's privates on the internet! More »
remainders
Remainders: Will the Fake Slim Shady Please Sit Down
• Eminem in whiteface. Someone, somewhere, is rolling in some grave, or something. [DealBreaker]• TIME reporter claims magazine didn't touch Karr story. Claim eerily matches reality of Karr claim he touched JonBenet Ramsey. YEAH, WE'RE STILL DOING THIS. [Think Progress]
• Wired reviews Pitchfork Media. Gives it a 7.030032. Basically good, but a little bit derivative of [obscure reference], like some kind of [overwrought metaphor that doesn't actually make sense when you think about it for even two seconds]. [Wired]
• A CNN reporter has a private conversation in the bathroom while wearing a hot mic during President Bush's memorial Hurricane Katrina address. Embarrassing? Yes. Was anyone watching President Bush's memorial Hurricane Katrina address? No. [Wonkette]
•: Important Update on Bravest Actress of All Time: Natalie Portman is definitely doing something courageous, coyly seductive, and thoroughly Jewish, we're just not sure where. [One Park Avenue Reality]
• Maybe forcing millions of drunk people to interact in the same small corner at the edge of the city wasn't such a good idea after all. [VV]
• Union Square still has street cred. Where else can you enjoy Thai chili lime peanuts, free Ben & Jerry's milkshakes, and heroin? [ANIMAL]
blogorrhea
• That Meatpacking movie theater of which we spoke? Yeah, maybe not so much. [The Reeler]
• We have no idea what one protests with a sex doll labeled "NYPD," but we're sure we agree with their cause. [Blottered]
• Jann Wenner's OCD apparently doesn't extend to the ladies' room. Much like many of Jann's other interests. [FishbowlNY]
• The unhealthy part of the oh-so-healthy Greenmarket are its big exhaust-spewing vans. And guess who donated them? [ToTC]
Blogorrhea NYC: It's Like Disney World, But Without Rides
• You've just won the New Yorker caption contest. Where are you going? To talk to some blogger, apparently. [emdashes]• That Meatpacking movie theater of which we spoke? Yeah, maybe not so much. [The Reeler]
• We have no idea what one protests with a sex doll labeled "NYPD," but we're sure we agree with their cause. [Blottered]
• Jann Wenner's OCD apparently doesn't extend to the ladies' room. Much like many of Jann's other interests. [FishbowlNY]
• The unhealthy part of the oh-so-healthy Greenmarket are its big exhaust-spewing vans. And guess who donated them? [ToTC]
