The "Oy at the job! They gave me back AIM but are now blocking my KP email! Fucking shit!" edition.
The varied history of The Bowery in this week's Voice.
Kristal sounds philosophical about the changes. "The whole Lower East Side is changing," he says. "That new building across the street from me—people say it's so ugly but I think it's a nice modern place. A lot of this neighborhood could be nicer and cleaner. So things are gone, places are gone. You want old stuff? Go to Europe. This is New York."I'm torn on that. Nostalgia is almost a badge for New Yorkers. There's something to be said for pointing a building and saying "when I was younger, I used to go/pass there and...." It's just not as fun to gesture at a dorm-like "modern" building...unless you want to curse its existence. But indeed, things change here. The problem is when things change so much that even the new people can't keep up. Even though it's 8 months away, I'm scared shitless of lease resigning. At the rate of the gentrification in my nabe, Prospect Heights will extend all the way to Nostrand by the fall. I live two blocks off Grand Army and I know damned well I can't afford the other side of Underhill. The landlord seemed like the type to strong arm for 'market" rent, so if he decides to make us resign at the bullshit rate he said he could charge, we'd be fucked -- even moreso if I jump the job ship and get a new job that will no doubt be lower paying. Such is life in the big city? [via Curbed]
Kimora goes ganstarrific in today's Page Six:
She's a fucking giant too. I wouldn't cross her...but I'd advise the determined gold digger to hire Naomi Campbell as a bodyguard, give her a line (or 6), and let her go off for your protection.
ONLY a very brave woman should flirt with Russell Simmons. The hip-hop mogul's wife, 6-foot former model Kimora Lee Simmons, repeats over and over again in a profile in next month's Vanity Fair: "I will beat a bitch's ass." Kimora adds: "I don't play that disrespectful ho [bleep]. I have very little respect for those kinds of women. And if I catch you with my man, disrespecting, I will beat your ass."