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Good Morning Upper East Siders. Word on the street is that everyone is trying to copy the fabulous styles of our very own Blair…
A tree weighted down w/snow fell on a BxM3 Express bus @ 71st St/5th Ave in Manhattan this afternoon.
New Yorkers, allow me to school you on why the coffee shop I am sitting at right now, Mr. Rohrs on 86th Street between 2nd and 1st Avenue, is the worst one in the city:
The good places to sit probably aren’t available to you
It is a long, narrow space – yes, that sounds like something she might have said, etc. – with a small sitting area in front, the counter and coffee in the middle, and a nice, dark room behind that with a lot of space. But if you only want coffee, you can’t sit in the nice area. You have to sit in the front, by the door.
Even if it’s 7pm on a Saturday night and there’s literally one other person sitting back in the nice room that fits maybe 50.
There is no free internet
They use some terrible thing called an “internet cafe management,” software provider. (In this case, the overpriced and obnoxiously named Anywwwhere.) So I’m using my equally overpriced Verizon Broadband to write this. Wonderful!
They attempt to charge you if you want to power your laptop
The not-all-that-friendly sign next to the power outlet, sics throughout, reads:
NO THEFT OF SERVICES
Do NOT Plug into our electric Service without a purchase of a Plug In Card
THEFT OF A PUBLIC UTILITY IS PROHIBITED
Because it’s so laughable, I asked how much it would cost me to plug in my laptop. Three bucks. If I wanted to stay more than an hour, $5. More than five hours, $12. I appreciate that the lingering effects of a crippling recession still present significant challenges to independent cafes and other small businesses, but come on. I’m an energy reporter. I know power doesn’t cost nearly that much.
So, in summation, screw this place. Since the DTUT closing, is there not a single decent cafe on the upper east side?
From Gothamist:
An Upper East Side community group voted unanimously against a plan that would have allowed a cold-weather tennis bubble to operate year-round inside a tiny park tucked beneath the Queensboro Bridge [at 59th and York]. After a reportedly contentious hearing in which tennis players who supported the plan argued with baseball and softball players who said it would privatize public land, Community Board 8’s Parks Committee voted en masse against the proposal.
The group’s vote to keep Sutton East Tennis Club from extending its lease with the city from eight months per year to twelve months per year was only advisory, however neighborhood baseball and softball players took the meeting seriously, according to Our Town. “They’re selling public open space that the community uses,” said Jessica Bondy. Tennis players and supporters said keeping the bubble open year-round would keep workers employed and bring more activity to the “underutilized” Queensboro Oval. “Instead of having just softball, hundreds of kids get to have top quality tennis instruction during the summer,” said Parks Department Manhattan borough commissioner William Castro.
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From Gothamist:
The wife of an Upper East Side hedge fund billionaire grabbed a homosexual worker’s privates and told him he needed a “good f—-” to make him straight, according to a sexual harassment suit filed by the former employee. William Gamble, 47, accused Lisa Maria Falcone of trying force herself on him—then punching him in the gut when he said no.
A month after being hired to manager properties for Falcone and her husband Philip, reportedly the world’s 296th wealthiest man, the couple brought Gamble to their vacation home in St. Barts. That’s where Gamble claims Falcone stuck her hand down his pants. “She touched me, and I drew back and away from her … I only wanted to work,” he told the Daily News. He claims Falcone then said he could be made into a heterosexual and struck him three times, “forcefully enough to leave deep bruises on his abdomen,” according to legal documents quoted in the Post.
