In the News: Statue of Liberty

••• “This Saturday, Le Pet Spa and the Battery Park City Dog Association will host their decennial costumed pet parade.” —Broadsheet Daily

••• “Ranking Tribeca loft buildings can be as imprecise as figuring out which angels are seraphim, cherubim or archangels, but it is hard not to put 27 N. Moore Street (the Ice House) in the first rank of the generation from the last century. I mean, of course, the 20th century, as this former refrigerated building was converted to residential condominiums with first sales in 1999 and the building dates ‘only’ from the earliest years of that century. The recent sale of the Manhattan loft #5A at the Ice House above $1,600/ft is only the most recent sale in the building above that exalted level.” —Manhattan Loft Guy

••• “Members of Community Board 1’s Battery Park City committee are calling for a security camera on the Rector Place Bridge.” —Broadsheet Daily

••• “Closed for safety reasons in 1916, the torch has long been inaccessible to everyone except for a few maintenance workers. But this week, in honor of the Statue of Liberty’s 125th birthday, the National Park Service is launching new webcams that will broadcast the long-restricted vistas continuously to people all over the world. […] All five feeds will be available round-the-clock at the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation’s website starting Oct. 28.” —DNAinfo

••• Midtown Lunch checked out new FiDi restaurant OBAO. I stopped reading after “steam table.”

••• I should point out that there are all sorts of Occupy Wall Street stories out there, but I’ve reached saturation on those articles that struggle to slice the story some new way every single day.

 

2 Comments

  1. It is a fitting tribute, on Lady Liberty’s 125th Anniversary, to have the hardy participants of Occupy Wall Street “standing watch” a few miles north, across the harbor. If Lady Liberty could talk, I’m sure she’d tell them: Thank You..for keeping the torch of liberty burning brightly; Thank you..for helping to renew the freedoms and ideals upon which this great country was founded. She’d be proud!

  2. It is a filthy tribute, on Lady Liberty’s 125th Anniversary, to have the party participants of Occupy Wall Street “squatting & not washing” a few miles north, across the harbor. If Lady Liberty could talk (she can’t?), I’m sure she’d tell them: “OMG…Zuccotti Park? No, really? That’s where you decided on? LOL. And when you march around in circles “avoiding” the police? LMAO. Hasn’t Lower Manhattan suffered enough? I do not disagree with the idea of it all, but I do strongly disagree in your ineffective, disruptive, costly, & childish process…you’re no different or better than our politicians. Thank You..for NOT doing this on Liberty Island – I like to get some sleep once all of these annoying tourists leave. And before I forget, Winter is coming….” – Lady Liberty