Here Comes Chaos: Uncertain Election Day And District Lines Make For Primary Mess
Body of Work: Screen Siren Raquel Welch Gets Her Lincoln Center Retrospective
Jim Carrey's Daughter Doesn't Make the Cut on American Idol, Surprisingly (Video)
Bloomberg Defends Deal For New FreshDirect Facility
Roundup: Campaigns and Christine Quinn
'House' Producers Announce Show Will End
To Save Penn Station, Boot Madison Square Garden to the River
Swedish Startup Execs Arrested for Alleged Sexual Assault Against a 19-Year-Old at the W Hotel
Lady Gaga Announces Tour Dates for 'Born This Way Ball'
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Jim Carrey’s Daughter Doesn’t Make the Cut on American Idol, Surprisingly (Video)
A lot of times it feels like we know too much about the children of celebrities. Like Blue Ivy Carter is only a month old, and we already know how many nannies she had, how much her birth cost, and that there's a strain of weed named after her. But sometimes the children of famous people stay out of the spotlight, waiting for the right moment to reveal themselves to the world. (Lily Atkinson, we're waiting for your starring role!)
Such was the case with Jim Carey's daughter, Jane Carrey, who is currently auditioning on American Idol, because she doesn't want to trade on her family name and wants to "make (her) place in the world," without people pressuring her to be better because her dad was in Dumb & Dumber, because under pressure, we learn, Ms. Carrey tends to choke.
Which is exactly what happened when she made it past the first round of Idol.
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Bloomberg Defends Deal For New FreshDirect Facility
Local activists in The Bronx have criticized the deal to keep the headquarters of online grocer FreshDirect in the five boroughs as insufficiently transparent and an improper use of city funds, but Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended the project at a press conference this morning.
"We don't go negotiate deals open, nobody would ever deal with the city, you couldn't negotiate a deal," Mayor Bloomberg said in response to a question from The Politicker. Read More
Roundup: Campaigns and Christine Quinn
Dean Skelos says congressional line talks are intensifying.
Chris Bragg & Laura Nahmias mapped out the race to replace Christine Quinn.
She'll focus on childcare and early education in her State of the City speech tomorrow.
A candidate emerges for Maurice Hinchey's seat and says she'll challenge an incumbent if need be.
Ed Towns' spokesman asks “Now all of a sudden Hakeem is running and Ed is a bad guy?”
Jesus Gonzalez will reportedly register for Erik Dilan's Council seat next week. (Spanish)
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‘House’ Producers Announce Show Will End
In a press release, the producers and star of Fox's medical series House have announced that the current season (the show's eighth) will be its last. "By April this year [we] will have completed 177 episodes, which is about 175 more than anyone expected back in 2004," wrote executive producers David Shore, Katie Jacobs and Read More
To Save Penn Station, Boot Madison Square Garden to the River
Despite his lack of formal design training, Michael Kimmelman has excited many readers, both architecturally adept and not, with his focus on urban issues. The Observer has begun to hear some grumbles, however, that that is all he cares about—bike lanes here, old housing projects over there, riverfronts a world away. What does he think of the Atlantic Yards apartment buildings or the World Trade Center Memorial. Won’t he weigh in on some capital-a Architecture already?
Well, today, as always seems to happen, he has done us one better. Read More
Swedish Startup Execs Arrested for Alleged Sexual Assault Against a 19-Year-Old at the W Hotel
Early this morning, the New York Post reported that two "Swedish tourists" were arrested for allegedly molesting a 19-year-old Texas woman at the W Hotel on Lexington Avenue and East 50th Street. The alleged attack occurred at 8 p.m. on Saturday.
Case details on the New York State Court site confirm that Niklas Adalberth, 30, was one of the men arrested. The Post reports that Jens Saltin, 31, was also arrested. "Adalberth allegedly straddled her body while he and Saltin ripped off her clothes and fondled her," the paper said. According to the document, the arrests occurred Saturday night around 10.30 p.m.
Both Mr. Adalberth, a former economics student, and Mr. Saltin are executives at the Swedish startup Klarna, which, based on this news, was trending just under Pinterest on Crunchbase earlier this afternoon. Read More
Lady Gaga Announces Tour Dates for ‘Born This Way Ball’
Announcing your tour dates the same week as Madonna? Well, to paraphrase the dowager of pop, it just seems a little reductive. (Look it up.) Still, early word has it that professional "pop art" misunderstander Lady Gaga will be touring the U.S. in 2013, after jaunts through Southeast Asia, Japan, Europe, and Latin Read More
Men of Wall Street Like Their Women Sexy and ‘Easy’, Says Expert
In the event you haven't noticed, Wall Street is (according to New York Magazine, at least) having a rough go of it! If you're one of the women of New York City who are 'into' Wall Street men and the wealth of character/fiscal riches they have to offer, one expert says you can make life easier on them when you try to pick them up. By being "easy." Also, sexy. That too. Read More
Peter Vallone Defends Gisele’s Honor
A Giants fan hurled insults at Gisele Bündchen, wife of Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, as she left the Super Bowl last weekend, but the supermodel has at least one defender in New York City: Councilman Peter Vallone.
Ms. Bündchen's responded to the fans shout of "Eli owns your husband!" by criticizing Mr. Brady's teammates. Her remarks have become earned her many enemies in Boston, but Mr. Vallone argued the Giants fan who mocked Ms. Bündchen acted even more inappropriately than the supermodel herself.
"yeah giselle said some classless things," Mr. Vallone wrote on his Facebook wall. "you know what's even more classless? grown men shouting at and harassing a woman."
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Eric Adams Makes Brooklyn BP Run Official
State Senator Eric Adams put an end to speculation about which office he would seek, announcing in an email to supporters this afternoon, "At the behest of many of you, Eric has decided to pursue his dream to run for the office of Brooklyn Borough President in 2013. "
Mr. Adams had been rumored to either be a BP candidate in 2013 or make a run for Public Advocate, but the email today--sent by his chief of staff, Ingrid Lewis-Martin--makes plain that he has decided to go with the former.
"The road to Borough Hall is long and can be rocky, but with your continued support we can pave the way and set a smooth course," the email reads. "I will send you periodic emails and news updates to keep you informed and abreast of all of the ways in which you can be a part of our journey to Brooklyn Borough Hall." Read More
Bloomberg Blames Negative Ads For Poor Showing In Education Policy Poll
Mayor Michael Bloomberg blamed a recent poll showing a majority of New Yorkers disapprove of his handling of the schools on the United Federation for Teachers' ad campaign criticizing his record on education.
"Somebody goes and runs a bunch of ads every day on television, you can create exactly that poll," Mayor Bloomberg said.
The mayor went on to suggest he could turn around the numbers by buying his own ads.
"I guess I could go spend some money and reverse the poll, the press would love it," he said.
Last time the UFT took out ads against Mayor Bloomberg in March that's exactly what he did. At that time, the mayor opened a campaign committee to fund a $5.6 million campaign defending his record on schools complete with polling, mailings and TV ads. Mayor Bloomberg subsequently shut his committee in October, on the exact same day The Politicker wrote a story about its activities. Read More
Park Slope Is Alive and Kicking Bourgie Booty
Is Park Slope dead? Yes, Eustace Tilley, of course it is. It died years ago. But washed ashore on the East River's bay in Brooklyn, the old Park Slope decomposed and fertilized the neighborhood that it has become today. It is merely the circle of life: reborn with a silver spoon, a stroller, and Caribbean nanny.
Just as Fifth Avenue in Manhattan garnered prosperity and luxury at the turn of the 20th century, Fifth Avenue in Brooklyn is doing the same at the turn of the 21st century. National chains—Barnes and Noble and Starbucks—have spread to the neighborhood, but so have yoga shops, children's stores, and some Brooklyn favorites: Beacon's Closet, Bird, Gorilla Coffee and the Chocolate Room. Read More
David Koch Gives Met $60 M. Face Lift
When David Koch left his home at 1040 Fifth Avenue, which was once occupied by Jackie O., he said one of the things he would miss the most was his views of the Temple of Dendur at the Met across the street. One thing he did not miss? The deteriorating plazas out front. Read More
Tonight in DVR: The One Several Nights After The Super Bowl
Sure, last weekend's Voice-tacular went fine. Fine! It got much-better-than-decent ratings. But for true Super Bowl-evening sensationalism, we feel a certain nostalgia for Friends's 1996 blowout, which featured guests ranging from Julia Roberts and Brooke Shields to, uh, the voice of Homer Simpson and Jean-Claude Van Damme. It's the moment the show went from preoccupation Read More
Elaine’s Closes for $8 M.
Elaine's is now gone for good.
The sale of the two Upper East Side tenements that once housed the storied restaurant just hit city records. 1703 and 1705 Second Avenue closed on January 20, for a price of $8.045 million. Read More
