Roosevelt Island

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  • You can buy a $69 hot dog at Serendipity on the Upper East Side. Jokes write themselves...[Eater]
  • Can someone write a Complaint Box article about Complaint Box already? [NYT]
  • Workers sue Mario Batali over missing tips. Orange clogs don't grow on trees, kiddos. [NYDN]
  • Trippy, hush-hush Rubulad party in danger. [Gothamist]
  • Is Roosevelt Island really better than the 'burbs? If so, is that really such a great sales pitch? [WSJ]
  • What you don't know about your balcony could kill you. [NYT]
  • Joan Rivers had a backstage rampage at the Miss USA pageant. And by "rampage," we mean she was wandering around in a tiara and exclaiming things. [Post]
  • Cameron Diaz wants you (and A-Rod) to know that she's a marshmallow on the inside. [NYDN]
  • Street artist war! Poster Boy scribbles all over Banksy's NY graffiti pieces. Poster Boy, you sound like an asshat. [Gothamist]
  • Roosevelt Island's apartments had a pneumatic (!) tube (!) trash disposal system!!!!!!!! [WSJ]
  • You can go home again: Superdive leaves East Village, probably heading to Murray Hill. [Eater]
  • Crap. Is the Coney Island boardwalk about to turn concrete? [NYP]
  • Helpful subway etiquette signs torn down by the MTA. [1010]
  • Even the Roosevelt Island tram would rather not be on Roosevelt Island. [NickMcGlynn]
  • Shepard Fairey's spanking new Houston Street mural gets tagged. [AnimalNY]
  • Somehow, How To Make It In America got renewed. [Deadline]
  • Network announces New Jersey couture reality show.  Series about North Dakota's gangsta rap scene to follow. [DailyMusto]

Plans to build 2,200 new apartments in the old Domino Sugar factory in Williamsburg have hit a snag. I have a modest alternative proposal: make it a club. "Less Artists, More Condos" could move its party right in. And the sugar plant is not the only NYC location that could become the next nightlife icon. More»

...Or at least for hipsters living in a trailer park. In Bushwick. Complete with a chicken coop. Anyway, the FDNY has raided the latest trend in bohemian living! More»