News Corp. Gets Drunk for Climate ChangeMost companies are kind enough not to have their holiday parties on a Friday. After all, you have enough personal holiday parties to drag your ass to this weekend (we saw you all waiting in line at Trader Joe’s for your half-dozen $4.99 bottles of Merlot). But what does Rupert Murdoch care about your piddling little plans? News Corp. was having their event on Friday, and all one billion of their employees damn well showed up. Their gargantuan party took over several ballrooms in the midtown Hilton, and of course, we duly waited in line (halfway down the block!) to get in, just because we knew you’d do it for us. We were not disappointed — it turned out to be the biggest private party we have ever attended in our lives. After the jump, find out what theme room caught Bill O’Reilly’s fancy, and which video games made the News Corpsies shake their bones.
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Trader Joe’s Saves Forest Hills From Checkout RageCarroll Gardens: Opponents of overdevelopment here now have their own funky mural, which directs people to this online petition. [Queens Crap]
Dumbo: These Czech marionettes performing Hamlet at Jane’s Carousel through November are seriously creepy. [DumboNYC]
Forest Hills: Customers at the cheery new Trader Joe’s here are grateful not to have to deal with “a rude gum-smacking Key Food cashier eating a bag of barbecue potato chips as she’s taking cell phone calls.” [Forest Hills 72]
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Will Trader Joe’s Be Haunted?Cobble Hill: Trader Joe’s is coming to an old bank building that may be haunted. Did those frozen tofu tamales just fly through the air? [McBrooklyn]
East Village: An artist makes T-shirts lamenting the hood’s new megadevelopments. [Vanishing New York]
Elmhurst: Controversial architect Robert Scarano, detested by many in Brooklyn, now hits Queens. [Queens Crap]
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Now, Your Commute to Trader Joe’s Is Shorter, Safer From West NileChelsea: Another driving-related fatality rocks the intersection of 23rd Street and Ninth Avenue [Ingrid Spangler]
Dumbo: Fast construction is complete on the former twelve-car parking lot near the corner of Front and Pearl. It’s now the lovely little Pearl Street Triangle Plaza. [Brooklyn Eagle]
Forest Hills: You too can get to Trader Joe’s! [Forest Hills 72]
Greenpoint: Despite a recent Department of Buildings ruling, Realtors irk neighbors with on-building advertisements. [Newyorkshitty]
Harlem: An autistic man who never ventured more than a few blocks from his home is missing. [NYDN via Uptown Flavor]
South Bronx: Pesticide spraying in the South Bronx may save you from West Nile. [WNYC]
