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Life Imitates Art

Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Aug 10, 2005 at 12:17 AM

The producers of Mona Lisa Smile, a Julia Roberts vehicle set at a 1950s women's college and focusing on a generation of women learning to stand up for their rights, settled a lawsuit today in Manhattan. The retro (and not in a ...READ»

TECHNOLOGY | 1 comment

Requiem for a Record Store

BY Greg Spotts
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Dec 15, 2006 at 10:00 AM

My love affair with Tower Records began in 1985 when my family moved from suburban Connecticut to Manhattan. Tower's flagship store at Fourth and Broadway was a mecca for musicians, scenesters, bizzers and fans. Yeah, there were ...READ»

THE COOL BEANS | Comment

Patrick Walsh Celebrates ‘The Cool Beans’ with Historic Tricycle Ride to Manhattan

BY Walsh Family Media
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Nov 11, 2009 at 12:07 PM

Walsh Family Media founder, Patrick Walsh, celebrates Saint Vincent’s Services for Children, New York independent film and their 1st CG animated feature film with a historic tricycle ride from Downtown Brooklyn to Midtown Manhattan.READ»

HISTORY | 4 comments

Networks of the Past

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Apr 6, 2004 at 1:21 PM

I didn't have a chance to post this over the weekend, but it struck me as ironic -- and a nice bit of serendipity -- that the anniversary of the founding of the Pony Express (April 3, 1860) took place in the midst of the Where's the ...READ»

MICHAEL CANNELL | 2 comments

Turn Back the Clock: Is Pre-Colonial the Design Vibe of the Moment?

BY Michael Cannell
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Sep 17, 2009 at 11:05 AM

The 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s landfall romances salt marshes and beaver pelts.READ»

BUSINESS TRAVEL | Comment

Airlift, Plutocrat Style

BY Josh Taylor
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:09 AM

The most over-the-top solution to being stuck in traffic when trying to make a flight? Fly over it. A company called US Helicopter has launched a shuttle service that takes you from downtown Manhattan to the American Airlines ...READ»

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT | 1 comment

Delivering the Profits

Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Jul 21, 2005 at 2:01 PM

I've been thinking about Heath's previous blog entry about MaxDelivery. It's tough reviving a business concept that has already failed and failed spectacularly. But former Kozmo.com employee Chris Siragusa has resuscitated the ...READ»

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | Comment

More Than Manhattan

Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Jul 11, 2005 at 2:16 PM

According to the New York Times Mayor Bloomberg is winning raves from former critics for taking a less Manhattan-centric approach to economic development. His attention is welcome and necessary. New York has an abundance of ...READ»

INNOVATION | 14 comments

Veggie King

BY Kevin Ohannessian
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed May 18, 2005 at 11:37 AM

A veggie burger is coming from Burger King? That is too little too late. First, the fast food companies offer fruit salads. And now more vegetarian fare. But, that is only a band-aid on internal bleeding. The big chains need to ...READ»

CUSTOMER SERVICE | Comment

The Check-Clearing Quagmire

BY Alan Deutschman
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 7:47 AM

Soon, it won't take a week to clear a check.READ»

UCLA | 1 comment

Architects Envision "Algae Pontoon" Parks Linking Brooklyn, Manhattan, Governors Island

BY Alissa Walker
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Nov 16, 2009 at 9:10 PM

The winning proposal in UCLA's WPA 2.0 competition wants to transform our waterfronts into carbon-siphoning wetlands.READ»

DESIGN IN BUSINESS | 3 comments

Shvo Motion

BY Linda Tischler
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:17 AM

One man's real-estate vision quest, and the $15 billion portfolio he's building along the way.READ»

MARKETING | 1 comment

Marketing to the Mainstream

BY Kevin Ohannessian
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu May 3, 2007 at 12:39 PM

"Risk and you shall receive." These words are from an advertisement on the train on my way to work this morning. Other famous lines were similarly altered -- "I risk therefore I am," was another. I was especially intrigued by, "When ...READ»

AEROTROPOLIS | 3 comments

The Central Park International Airport Hoax, Explained

BY Greg Lindsay
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Jul 24, 2009 at 1:19 PM

The Internet raged in response to a shadowy organization's plans to raze New York's Central Park in favor of an airport, Strawberry Fields be damned. We unravel the mystery.READ»

ART | Comment

Designing the Future

BY Rachel King
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Apr 3, 2008 at 5:35 PM

News typically doesn’t get blended in with art. Nor does the information in a lot of paintings, sculptures or other forms of art usually incorporate statistical or cerebral information. But an innovative new exhibit on display at ...READ»

KEN CARBONE | Comment

Flawless to Clueless, Part III: Peanut Birdfeeder

BY Ken Carbone
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Apr 23, 2009 at 4:30 PM

One of the great joys of living in Palisades, New York, is that it is teaming with wildlife. When I saw the Peanut Birdfeeder in the "Design Within Reach" catalog, it looked way too beautiful to actually work. I was skeptical, but decided to spend the $90 to give it a try.READ»

IDEAS | 5 comments

Paying For Convenience

BY Tamara Schweitzer
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Feb 15, 2007 at 3:15 PM

Not many cities have capitalized on delivery services quite like Manhattan, where people have the luxury of grocery or laundry delivery, or even a delivery from their shopping spree at Bed, Bath & Beyond. Yet it seems that the ...READ»

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT | 2 comments

The Power Lunch Is Back

Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 10, 2003 at 10:47 AM

They're packing the power brokers in once again at Manhattan's Four Seasons restaurant, reports the New York Times this morning in a story about the return of the power lunch. Happy days are here again it seems (along with $130 ...READ»

WORK/LIFE | 3 comments

Work/Life: Why Do We All Commute at the Same Time?

BY Cali Yost
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Nov 12, 2007 at 2:10 PM

A member of my team and I caught the 7:05 a.m. train into Manhattan for a client meeting. Something must have been wrong with the trains that morning because it was standing-room only and there were still eight stops to go. People ...READ»

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Miracle Workers

BY Keith H. Hammonds
Relevancy Score: 95
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:40 AM

Amid the rubble of lower Manhattan, companies are working miracles to get their operations back to work. Firsthand reports from the New York Board of Trade, a Verizon switching center at 140 West Street, and other places under (re)construction.READ»

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT | 2 comments

Kozmo Comeback

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 94
Tue Jul 12, 2005 at 7:04 PM

Remember Kozmo? New York-based MaxDelivery seems to be reviving that failed dotcom business model. Oddly enough, they don't deliver to where I live... or where I work. They don't deliver to midtown Manhattan? What do you think: Does ...READ»

DO SOMETHING | 1 comment

What Poker Taught Me About Running a Not-for-profit

BY Nancy Lublin
Relevancy Score: 90
Tue Sep 1, 2009 at 2:00 PM

I used to play a lot of poker. Every Friday night for nearly three years, I was at the Mayfair, a poker club in a Manhattan basement. There were big games in the other room -- with Joey Bagels (he became Joey Knish in the ...READ»

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Forget Everything You've Heard

Relevancy Score: 90
Mon Aug 21, 2006 at 6:20 PM

Much of Manhattan's real estate has a past. With news today that the 62nd Street site of a deadly gas explosion has caught the interest of potential buyers, it seems people are comfortable ignoring an address's unsettling ...READ»

BRAND | Comment

Where Are You on The “Balance” Seesaw?

BY Tom Waldron
Relevancy Score: 90
Mon Jun 15, 2009 at 8:00 AM

On any given day as you walk down the streets of Manhattan — or any streets for that matter — you will probably see people engaging in conversations or texting on their cell phones, checking and responding to e-mail on their ...READ»

AIRPLANE BIKE FRIDAY FOLDING BIKE | 1 comment

When good news is good news: A Hudson River plane crash in a recession

BY Lynette Chiang
Relevancy Score: 89
Wed Feb 11, 2009 at 1:50 AM

It's been almost a month since newly wikified Chesley B. Sullenberger III (one of the guys in the attached photo, don't mind which) executed a perfect duck dive. And unless cross-haired by a man in a tweedy peaked cap, ducks always ...READ»

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