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Extra, Extra: Banks Are Smothering The Upper West Side
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John Del Signore
Published May 29, 2012
Modified May 29, 2012
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Published May 29, 2012
Modified May 29, 2012
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- Actor Viggo Mortensen got so excited about a soccer game he was watching on his laptop at Dulles airport that security threatened to throw him out.
- The new iteration of Milk & Honey will have signage. What's next, drink menus?!
- Michelle Obama will be on The Daily Show tonight to promote her new book about gardening, American Grown.
- A Queens mother allegedly stabbed her 9-year-old daughter multiple times in the head with a chef's knife this morning.
- Vandaag, the well-regarded East Village Dutch/Danish bistro, has closed.
- A Manhattan judge has shot down a Park Ave condo board's request for a restraining order against a tenant accused of stinking up the other units with his cigarette smoke.
- Bro-mosa, anyone?
- Retail banks are proliferating so rapidly on the Upper West Side that some locals are getting depressed.
- Lithuanian photographer Tadas Cerniauskas photographed models as they were being blasted in the face by a high-powered industrial leaf blower. Good times.
- And an upstate man tried, unsuccessfully, to pay his tab at Denny's with marijuana.
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Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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