WallStreetJackass

damn it's good to be a cracker

NYC drug laws are stupid.

In 2001, during his first campaign for mayor, Michael R. Bloomberg was asked by New York magazine if he had ever used marijuana. “You bet I did,” he replied. “And I enjoyed it.”

Mr. Bloomberg may have been the first major city candidate to acknowledge using pot, but as mayor he has led a sweeping expansion of arrests, according to a recent study by Harry G. Levine, a sociology professor at Queens College. During Mr. Bloomberg’s first two terms in office, the lowest-level marijuana arrests were up, on average, by 50 percent over when his predecessor, Rudolph Giuliani, was in office. […]

The mayor’s office said on Tuesday that it could not estimate the cost of such arrests. Mr. Levine, drawing on studies done in other cities, estimated that they could range from $53 million to $88 million annually.

per Hicks; alcohol is a worse drug than pot , fact.

Tim Burton at the MoMa

got twisted and went to see his exhibit this weekend; bit crowded but definitely worthwhile... 

not good for NYC housing.

Top Goldman Sachs executives are likely to receive their annual bonus in stock this year rather than cash as part of a pay review that could affect thousands of the Wall Street bank’s rank-and-file employees. ft

the new apple store on 67th Street

I'm all about AAPL stuff (apple tv is awesome), but that 24-hour sign burns the back of my retinas at 2am.

this is not Times Square

NYC - it's a hell'va town

suck it Philly!

needless to say

Goldman paying bonuses in stock, would not be good for NYC housing prices.

Mike Bloomberg's pillows

have this stitched into them (seriously):

“It’s my world—deal with it,” and “Don’t start with me. You will not win.”

subtle.

also from the article, check out how Bloomberg expanded his living space...

He lives with his longtime girlfriend, Diana Taylor, the former State Superintendent of Banks, and their two Labradors, Bonnie and Clyde, in a five-story Beaux Arts town house that, as a result of occasional targeted acquisitions in the neighboring building to the east, is effectively a double-wide.

photo found at this cool NYC site: 

given the air unit, I'm guessing he still suffers claustrophobia on his 5th floor...

yo, we're FDIC-guaranteed bitches!

[Goldman wives Laura Blankfein and Susan] Friedman shouted at the event organizer, "You have lost so much money because of this . . . Why should we be treated like the $650 donors?"

Sources said Blankfein and Friedman had bought tables with blocks of tickets going for $833 apiece, as did many of the women who were waiting patiently in line, happy to raise $3.4 million for the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund NYP

ah, the Great Vampire Squid spouses... such nice people.

Manhattan Condo Prices

buh-bye now...

rough times for NYC

*NEW YORK TAX REVENUE $239.1 BELOW GOVERNOR'S APRIL 28 ESTIMATE

*NEW YORK TAX REVENUE FELL MORE THAN PROJECTED FOR APRIL

*NEW YORK TAX REVENUES FALL 44% FROM LAST YEAR, COMPTROLLER SAYS