on the upside, this might be a pretty good deal for JP Morgan. They have the assets to ride out a long credit crunch, and when things settle down, they'll probably carve up the corpse of BS at a huge...

@thedroog-- are you kidding me? this is the proudest moment of my photoshop life. this is getting framed and replacing my prized signed southpark print ("don't encourage them, they'll only do it mor...

um, holy shit? if that's true, he's absolutely toast. ...

when i need a definition of hypocrisy, i'm going to refer back to this post. if you can't unionize at the tenement museum, where can you unionize?...

huge surprise-- few people want to pay luxury rents ($3000+) for apartments in a middle class project. and even less people want to pay those rates when every blog in NYC has been publicizing tishman...

when will this madness end? this is going to totally suck for the democrats-- three more months of them ripping at each other-- until eventually a completely damaged candidate emerges, and then promp...

Obama is going to win. Tonight I really felt that for the first time. He looks and sounds like he's leading a movement-- and compared to him, when McCain took the stage, he looked small and old, and...

Queens D.A. Richard Brown fears the city is slipping back to the early-80s era of graffiti saturation Praise the Lord-- we should be so lucky!...

@ kittyempire, here are two more links: more pix still more pix...

i used to live down the block from these eyesores. while they were occasionally fun to photograph (as in the tilt-shift shot above), they were terrible for the neighborhood. when NYU bulldozed tho...

i think it stretches the truth to call an overdose of six different kinds of drugs "accidental". taking drugs in that kind of volume is suicidal behavior-- you know it's going to kill you eventually....

why are championship designs always so ugly? surely you could get some good NYC t-shirt designers on that, and make something really cool. i'd like to see the aNYthing/bathingape/thehundreds version...

my prediction: obama wins an overwhelming victory among young people (age 18-36), but loses the primary in new york. old people get up early and vote-- young people go to ticker-tape parades. ...

@ eyekantspel -- i think we've got a very consistent view of free speech. we're in favor of individual citizens speaking their mind and we're in favor of artists expressing themselves. when it comes...

"I Won't Back Down" is one of the best, most powerful songs ever written about self-preservation and dignity. Its universal message crosses all boundaries and instills one with the hope that it's not ...

fuck you for that corpse joke, jen! free falling is one of the most authentic and well-written songs in the history of american pop music. it captures both the vacuity and angst of growing up in a...

my guess is that dkny didn't intentionally copy the ghost-bike project. this seems like something a guerrilla marketing agency cooked up without doing their homework-- certainly five minutes of googl...

@www obviously, cops like costumes!...

i'm not that worried-- after john's last gawker post, i think nick denton has him marked for death! ...

another brilliant dr. evil style move! my question is a tactical one: what percentage of paid commenters produces the greatest number of total comments per thread? i'm guessing the ideal is about 30...