Duly Noted
Folks soak in the sun last Friday near Giginos at Wagner Park in lower Manhattan. The AIA Guide calls the building, which is also a viewing platform, "a grand brick sculpture." (Photo by Rolando Pujol)
* The next chapter in the saga to save a row of small businesses on Ninth Avenue in Chelsea is May 3, when a protest will be held. [Jeremiah's Vanishing New York]
* Those ubiquitous Star Wars ads around the city have inspired noteworthy subway mashups. [Gothamist]
* ... and who could miss the Slave Leias at Comic Con. [Vulture]
* "Look who's talking to Charlie ... Charlie Rose." D.C. expats may remember that jingle from his less highbrow WRC-TV talk show of the early 1980s, but now this video brings the jingle to life. [Gothamist]
* Illegal advertising blossoms anew, this time for cell phones. [Queens Crap]
* Last Saturday marked the 81st anniversary of Mae West's imprisonment on Roosevelt Island on a morals rap. [Roosevelt Islander]
* Remembering the Brooklyn earthquake of 1985. Yep, you read correctly. [OTBKB via Gowanus Lounge]
* Jeff Koons' sculptures now grace the top of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [Unbeige]
* And up in Massachusetts, an awesome neon Dunkin Donuts sign from 1957 -- from the era before there was a DD on every block -- is for sale. [Hatch]
-- Rolando Pujol, Cha
