In the News: Superego Extraordinaire

••• Remember that episode of “The Brady Bunch” when Bobby becomes a hall monitor and he gets all crazy and fascist about it? Tribecan Robert Gluckstadt never watched all the way to the end. From a New York Times profile: “Mr. Gluckstadt becomes incensed over nuisances that a vast majority of New Yorkers have learned to live with. He has called 911 to report men playing bongo drums on the subway. Once, he said, he pulled the emergency brake cord in a subway train to draw attention to drummers in his car. […] He had a subway preacher arrested after arguing that the preacher had threatened his life when he said Mr. Gluckstadt would ‘burn in hell.’ He called the police on a nightly basis to report the same homeless man on West 23rd Street. Mr. Gluckstadt was arrested, accused of assault after ‘a friendly little fight’ with a man feeding pigeons.”

••• Speaking of the benefits of meditation: Fashion and tech types are into it, and a New York Times trend piece insists that Arianna Huffington lives in Tribeca, even though her apartment is on Mercer.

••• A lot of iPhones are getting snatched right out of people’s hands. —Tribeca Trib

••• No permanent fence around Washington Market Park’s lawn. —Tribeca Trib

••• This came in too late to make Seen & Heard: Today from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m., the Robin Brouillette + Tribeca Collective pop-up is throwing a party with free nail art by TenOverTen’s new nail artist, Mimi, rosé Champagne cocktails from Tiny’s, and a DJ.

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3 Comments

  1. “He had a subway preacher arrested after arguing that the preacher had threatened his life when he said Mr. Gluckstadt would ‘burn in hell.'” — Needs dictionary to learn the meanings of “life” and “hell”.

  2. Further re: this dude – anyone remember the _great_ Fred Gwynne?

  3. You mean Herman Munster (among many other characters)? I don’t think Mr. Gluckstadt looks like him, if that’s what you’re suggesting.