Showing posts with label Lafayette. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lafayette. Show all posts

Monday, September 8, 2008

It Looks Like Rain

New York City weather may have clear skies across its five boroughs, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be golden showers raining down on one of Manhattan’s newest restaurants, Delicatessen. This hot Nolita eatery opened in July. It’s a glass-roofed lounge with pricey food, model patrons, tons of yuppies, but also an angry, unknown fellow citizen who isn’t happy that the restaurant is there. You see, at least one of their neighbors (maybe more) is pissed off to the point that he (or she) is peeing down on the restaurant's glass roof below. It’s not an intellectual or classy protest but it delivers a message as clear as "yellow snow." Someone doesn’t like the restaurant there. Many residents at 265 Lafayette Street complain that the trendy restaurant’s glass ceiling does nothing to keep loud noises inside. Its patrons hope that the roof is properly sealed to keep urine, outside the panes. Hopefully, the disgruntled protestor doesn’t resort to hitting the restaurant with plan “number two.”

Thursday, December 13, 2007

The Price Of Friendship

A gold medal commissioned by George Washington and presented to the Marquis de Lafayette just sold for $5.3 million dollars at Sotheby’s in Manhattan. The medal was symbolic of the bond and friendship between America and France that existed at that time. It’s nice that the medal increased in value over the past 200-plus years but unfortunate that the bond and friendship between the two countries isn’t valued as it once was. Where are today’s Washington’s and Lafayette’s when we really need them?

NOTE: To add insult to injury, Brooklyn's famous Lafayette High School was recently closed down.