The Waldorf got two new condensers today, and I got to watch from a conference room. Sorry for the crummy cell phone photos.

You can see the old rusty ones they removed.

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I usually just throw glossies in the trash, but this caught my eye.  I believe I’ll vote for this guy:

Helicopter and plane crash over Hudson River

NY1 reporting one rescue, one death. UPDATE: NY1 says this is the model of the plane involved.

At one point during Monday night’s Green Day show at Madison Square Garden, Billie Joe Armstrong announced that he needed someone on stage who could play the guitar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e69cNb5z7FE

If that little girl in her Misfits shirt and her pigtails can get up on stage at Madison Square Garden and absolutely own it, there is hope for the future. That is all.

It’s not often that I bitch about my place of residence, the Upper West Side, but today is an exception.  Which is worse?

This?

After crying poverty for months, Mayor Bloomberg authorized fat raises Friday for 6,692 of his managers and nonunion employees, worth $69 million over two years.

The raises, which will cover virtually all his City Hall staffers, but not himself, will match those given to District Council 37, the city’s largest municipal union.

There will be a 4% raise retroactive to March 3 of last year, and a compounded 4% raise – or 4.16% – retroactive to March 3 of this year.

Or this?

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