Month: October 2007

From the City Room, a history of the tortured path to the new taxi logo design. The new logos are not getting much love (see this second post in the series too).

I think the idea of updating the taxi look is appealing – the DIY aesthetic of the stenciling was long overdue for replacement. But three fonts for seven letters? I rather like the original “computer” font, but its lost between WolffOhlins horrid “NYC” and the “T” (where are we, Boston?). The checkers are a nice touch, though.

It looks as though they started with a decent idea, but then the “committee” got a hold of it.

Heather gets some love:

…the non-pastor half of the duo is one of New York’s great, unheralded writers. “Miss Heather” writes the cult favorite New York Shitty blog, dedicated to tracking dog crap in Greenpoint, Williamsburg and environs. It’s compulsively readable, has a soft spot for the eccentricities of North Brooklyn

In case you hadn’t noticed, a lot of this blog is just an excuse to fool around with Movable Type, css and a bunch of other fun stuff. In other words, experimenting so that other blogs don’t have days like today. If you were looking for posts today and just found a blank page, chalk it up to an MT4 upgrade. Or more specifically, the fact that MT4 now includes the wonderful-but-pitifully-undocumented plugin MultiBlog, albeit in a completely updated (and yes, undocumented) version.

Things still aren’t 100% – the articles (posts from the main blog) appear at the bottom of the page, rather than along with the side blog entries. Hopefully we’ll get that in order (and get MarsEdit to work).

Tavin Alves Clark was a 16-year-old who lived on Cooper Street. Earlier this week he was struck by a stray bullet while looking out his apartment window. After a few days on life support, Tavin died yesterday.

The Star reports on the town hall.

Yeah, its been linked to a thousand times, and discussed ad nauseum on every comment board in the city. My two cents – no way. An out of the way location with little destination potential is not the Apple way (even malls are destinations, this isn’t). It would make my life easier if it did happen, but until then, I’ll stick with Mikey’s HookUp and Tekserve (and yes, the Apple stores in the Emerald City).

The Eagle doesn’t say which two properties, but does get Massey Knakal on record inflating the price of land that will (hopefully) one day be a park (and costing taxpayers money in the process). The thing is, these properties were rezoned from manufacturing to park land, not residential. Not many development opportunities there, certainly not at the $200/foot MK is claiming.

Don’t know how I wound up on a food kick, but…

From Cakehead, a list of essential Williamsburg dining experiences. Who remembers when (not very long ago) only Kasia’s and Luger’s would have made the list?

Asbestos complaints are way up in North Brooklyn. Not surprising when you consider that half the artificial siding up here is ACM.

Dressler is one of the newest Michelin one-star restaurants in New York City, joining their neighbor across the street, Peter Luger.