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Photos Capture Disco Fever Era of 1970s New York

📷: Meryl Meisler. Courtesy of CLAMP, New York As a young girl growing up in Massapequa — aka “Matzoh Pizza” — during the ’50s and ’60s, Meryl Meisler ’s childhood on Long Island was filled with scenes of suburban bliss. She plié’d and releve’d in ballet class, dazzled at twirl, and amassed an impressive array […]

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The Ultimate Pecking Order of New York City’s Birds

New York City is host to a unique ecosystem of native and introduced species. While woodland species are confined to the city’s parks, there are a few exceptions that seem to thrive in our urban landscape. See who runs shit in the concrete jungle with this list of the most successful birds and their rankings, […]

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Soon Any Building That Isn’t a Condo Will Be a Luxury Hotel, Thanks to Equinox

Equinox, the $225-a-month luxury gym chain, is getting into the hospitality business, the Wall Street Journal reports. Equinox will be opening its first health-and-fitness-oriented hotel in Hudson Yards in 2018, with a Los Angeles location set to open in 2019. They hope to eventually build 75 worldwide. Equinox’s parent company is Related Holdings, a real […]

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2,000 Bolivians Take To The Streets To Demand More Simpsons

In a bizarre turn of events like something out of one of Homer’s Guatemalan insanity pepper hallucinations, nearly 2,000 Bolivian protesters took to the streets to protest changes to their local TV network’s broadcasting schedule of the Simpsons recently. And it worked. When the Mr. Burns-like network announced cutbacks to the two-hour blocks of reruns […]

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