Is true. The characters of Sesame Street have been appointed as official NYC ambassadors.
Travelers arriving for summer New York vacations will see muppets including Elmo, Big Bird and Cookie Monster plastered all over online and outdoor advertising, as well as on taxicab ads throughout the City.
This was announced by George Fertitta, the CEO of NYC & […]

Posted on July 9th, 2009 by Thomas
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Wanna get laid in New York City? It’s costly, as is everything else in the Big Apple. Fortunately for you, TimeOut New York has come out with a very useful list of no-tell New York motels.

Yes, I know it’s. tacky. But devastatingly effective, wouldn’t you say? Great headboard… That’s the romantic interlude room at the Liberty Inn, […]

Posted on July 1st, 2009 by Thomas
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On June 21, 2009, there’s going to be one more temporary addition to the list of New York beaches. The sands of Tel Aviv Beach are being brought to Central Park for a beach party.

You can take a bath, you have the beach sand, you’ll be given popsicles, there’s lounge chairs, concession stands, and Matkot (Israeli beach paddle-ball) - […]

Posted on June 7th, 2009 by Thomas
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Times Square, Macy’s and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade down Broadway in New York City are all part of one giant package which makes the attractions in New York much more valuable than the sum of each individual attraction.
And Mayor Bloomberg’s latest boneheaded idea cuts the legs off from underneath the Macy’s Parade by rerouting it off […]

Posted on March 31st, 2009 by Thomas
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Holy Mahatma! Gandhi’s personal belongings, including his trademark leather sandals and steel-rimmed glasses, are being sold off in an auction.
Also included are his pocket watch and a bowl and plate. Mahatma Gandhi had apparently gifted these items individually to people he met. AFP report says that Antiquorum Auctioneers (www.antiquorum.com/) in New York estimates the March 5 sale […]

Posted on February 15th, 2009 by Thomas
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There’s all kinds of stuff that goes on at zoos and aquariums. I mean, every other day, you hear of some amazing trick or show with animals as stars. But this one is really more of a psycho-drama than something out of ‘The Planet’s funniest animals.’
There’s a polar bear named Knut in the Berlin Zoo, […]

Posted on December 23rd, 2008 by Thomas
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I hope you don’t take this as license to be a perv, cause this is more about art and history. We’re taking about ‘appreciating’ the beauty and historcial significance of the Marquis de Sade’s castle at Lacoste, a small village 25 miles east of Avignon in Provence, France.
Tony Perrottet, writing for Slade, gives us ‘The Pervert’s Grand Tour’ of […]

Posted on December 17th, 2008 by Thomas
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The Seattle Post-Intelligencer calls Seattle’s fledgling bad art museum which just opened at Cafe Racer in Seattle the equivalent of a shelter with a no-kill policy. And their acronym couldn’t be more inappropriate. Its called OBAMA - Official Bad Art Museum of Art (www.officialbadartmuseumofart.com/).
OBAMA opened last month and hosts its first annual party for itself Friday, […]

Posted on December 3rd, 2008 by Thomas
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This is intolerable. Its no big secret that Black Friday holiday shopping in New York is more of a contact sport than a leisurely activity, but how frenzied do you have to do be, in order to trample and kill a poor man doing his job, so that you can get in first and get […]

Posted on November 29th, 2008 by Thomas
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There’s been a lot of stories of air rage of late, but this one beats em all. Maria Esther Castillo of Oswego, NY, went bonkers abroad United Airlines Flight 645, from Puerto Rico to Chicago.
She slapped a flight attendant on the buttocks with the back of her hand, then stood and feel onto the back of a […]

Posted on November 6th, 2008 by Thomas
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