Holland Tunnel

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The Observer's crackerjack media reporter (and former Manhattan Transfers columnist) Michael Calderone this week reported on New York magazine's likely move from Midtown to (gasp!) Hudson Square.

"Our lease is up in September," said a New York spokesperson. "So we are exploring a number of different options for a space, including negotiating with our current landlords."

First on the list: 1 Hudson Square, in far west Soho, just up from the Holland Tunnel. (Note to staff: Is Jersey ... back? Wait--was it here the first time? Check archives!)

The Rosetta stone for deciphering Park Slope stroller mommies and Upper East Side Type-A's would join other media joints that have made a commercial home in the once-struggling Soho slice, including WNYC and CBS Radio; Viacom, too, plans a move to Hudson Square.

- Tom Acitelli

You periodically hear rumors that New York's iconic petty extortionist, the Squeegee Man, has reemerged at this park crossing or that tunnel entrance, but I don't think I'd actually seen one since sometime in the 1990s.

There he was though yesterday, a wiry guy in a checked shirt, working the line of cars just past where the Holland Tunnel feeds on to Canal Street. (With the Giants performance yesterday, it was a real moment of early-1980s nostalgia. Where have you gone, Scott Bruner?)

The man did have a hunted look to him, and ducked into the scaffolding over the A/C/E station when a police van cruised by. So it's hard to know if he's a harbinger or just one perverse New Yorker who has chosen to commit the poorly-paid, cold, and dangerous form of minor disorder most likely to make local police commanders hysterical.  read more »

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