Only in NYC

Wandering around the streets of NYC at 4:30am on Friday morning with some friends after a birthday party we stumble across... Spiderman with a rickshaw? He asks us to get in, and one of us does:



The lighting wasn't great but if you want to see what he does with more light:

I need to find this video again. Woops!

And a short documentary:



Shaun is awesome! People like him are the reason I love NYC!

Article from NY Magazine

Article on the Gawker site and other, related sites from New York magazine. Pretty dead on, and while it does steal some of Gawkers "snark" for its tone, I have to agree with the author on most points.

Tuesday Round-up

New York Magazine article on blogs such as Gawker.

Brooklyn girl is fined for drawing with chalk on her stoop. Where I live the same thing would happen.

A very bizarre idea for a TV show. It could have been good or it could have been ridiculously bad. Unfortunately it does not seem like we will ever know.

Chad Vader - the newest YouTube thing. It is funny:

From the Obvious Files

An article about rent in NYC. Apparently its really expensive and hard to find apartments. Um... Duh?

And the newest, hottest Facebook app - dramatic whitespace! Awesome! Someone should buy this for at least $3 million.

Vaguely interesting article about the gentrification of Manhattan. Note the part about the number of Starbucks. Color me confused.