chris817

I think so, since they are both hosting NYE parties that last all day

Crobar is not mentioned in article at all in fact it says So far, 267 permits have been approved for New Year's Eve, according to the SLA.

The whole city is a shopping mall.. almost like disney world.. I'm just glad i got to grow up here when it was NYC not this circus

end of an era December 19, 2006 -- The former Episcopal church that once housed the sacrilegious Limelight nightclub will be born again - as a retail mini-mall. Now known as the Avalon nightclub, the legendary 12,000-square-foot venue on Sixth Avenue at West 20th Street will shutter its doors in early 2007. "The landlord has decided that he doesn't want to go forward with another nightclub," said broker Frank Terzulli, of Winnick Realty Group. "He's going to cut it up for retail tenants and a restaurant with patio seating." Terzulli added, "The area is becoming more upscale with high-priced condos and stores, and that will make it more difficult to get permits from the community board" for a nightclub. Cops have been cracking down on Chelsea nightclubs and their rowdy and sometimes violent patrons since the murder last summer of 18-year-old Jennifer Moore, who was killed after a night of drinking at the Guest House nightspot. Officials have warned club owners that they will conduct more stings on underage drinking and insist that the clubs do more to police themselves. Community leaders have also complained about Chelsea's club-filled districts, which have been blasted as a "teenage wasteland." Landlord Ben Ashkenazy's company, Ashkenazy Acquisition Corp., owns and operates several retail malls and the three flagship Barneys stores in New York, Chicago and Beverly Hills. Sources say international discount-clothing retailer H&M is the likely main tenant for the space, which features triple-height ceilings and mezzanine levels. A representative for Winnick would not confirm any specific names, since no leases have yet been signed. Limelight, founded in the deconsecrated church in 1983, hosted some of clubland's wildest parties in the '80s and early '90s under now-deported club king Peter Gatien. In 1996, federal agents charged that Limelight was a "drug supermarket" and shut it down. Gatien was acquitted of racketeering and drug charges but convicted of tax evasion. He spent time in jail and was eventually deported to his native Canada. That same year, one of the club's flamboyant promoters, Michael Alig, pleaded guilty to manslaughter for killing Angel Melendez, a club regular and reputed drug dealer over a money dispute. He's still in jail. Limelight reopened under new management but was shuttered again in 2002. It came back to life in November of that year as the short-lived Estate. Avalon followed a few months later.

stop dating girls who are no good

yeah but that was funny..

Border Fence Firm Snared for Hiring Illegal Workers by Scott Horsley All Things Considered, December 14, 2006 · A fence-building company in Southern California agrees to pay nearly $5 million in fines for hiring illegal immigrants. Two executives from the company may also serve jail time. The Golden State Fence Company's work includes some of the border fence between San Diego and Mexico. After an immigration check in 1999 found undocumented workers on its payroll, Golden State promised to clean house. But when followup checks were made in 2004 and 2005, some of those same illegal workers were still on the job. In fact, U-S Attorney Carol Lam says as many as a third of the company's 750 workers may have been in the country illegally. Golden State Fence built millions of dollars' worth of fencing around homes, offices, and military bases. Its president and one of its Southern California managers will pay fines totaling $300,000. The government is also recommending jail time for Melvin Kay and Michael McLaughlin, probably about six months. It is exceptionally rare for those who employ illegal immigrants to face any kind of criminal prosecution, let alone jail time. Earlier this week, for example, immigration raids on six meat-packing plants netted almost 1,300 suspected illegal workers. But no charges were leveled against the company that runs the plants: Swift. Golden State Fence's attorney, Richard Hirsch, admits his client broke the law. But he says the case proves that construction companies need a guest-worker program.

excuse me sir there is someone on the line who sounds like my wife...

u need to get out more

not if its a internal problem such as the harddrive.. i really think its true there is someting that right after the 1 yr warranty goes something breaks on it.. plus apple has the worst customer service.. you get one technical phone call the 2nd costs you something like 50 bucks just to talk to someone.. mine broke and i sent it to that ipodresque and it worked for a bit but its dead again.. hate to do it but gonna get another for xmas.. cant wait until somehing as good comes out and crushes apple

thanks the best radio i ever heard..

When iPods Die Gripes Over Breakdowns Grow As Players Become Ubiquitous; The Drop-Start Technique By NICK WINGFIELD December 6, 2006; Page D1 This holiday season Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod is once again a top seller in stores and the music player's white earphones remain a nearly ubiquitous sight on city streets and at gyms. But as it reaches deeper into the mainstream, more users are becoming familiar with a new sense of loss: the death of an iPod. Among users of the device, it's long been common to hear of iPods laid low by batteries that no longer hold a charge, malfunctioning hard disks and screens with cracks. In some cases, problems are caused by users who accidentally drop their iPods or otherwise subject them to abuse, but other users say their iPods go belly up even after normal use. The iPod's durability could become a more important issue as consumers become less dazzled by cutting-edge technology and more concerned about longevity, especially for a device that can cost hundreds of dollars. "Some people swear there's a self-destruct mechanism in it after the warranty is up," says Matthew Bremner, a founder of iRepair.ca, an iPod fix-it service with a store in Toronto and on the Internet. "For a small device that's that expensive it probably should last a little longer." Steve Dowling, a spokesman for Apple, based in Cupertino, Calif., says the rates at which iPods fail -- less than 5% -- are "extremely low" compared with other electronics devices. "IPods are designed to last for years, but as with any complex consumer-electronics product such as digital cameras, they can be broken if dropped or mishandled by users," says Mr. Dowling, who adds that the "overwhelming majority" of iPod users are happy with their devices. Even if only a tiny percentage of iPods malfunction, the huge popularity of the devices means a significant number of users could be affected. Apple has sold nearly 70 million iPods in the five years since the product first went on sale. If just under 5% of that number failed, that could still amount to millions of affected devices. Apple declined to comment on the specific number of iPods that have failed Have you had problems with your iPod? What did you do? How would you gauge Apple's handling of complaints? Join a discussion.Tom Westrup, an investment professional in Austin, Texas, has had worse luck than most with iPods. Mr. Westrup says he bought his first iPod online three years ago and it quickly began freezing up while playing songs. Resetting the device solved the problem only temporarily, so Mr. Westrup says he sent his iPod into Apple for a replacement. The problems occurred again with the new iPod. He says he visited a technician at a local Apple retail store, who raised the possibility that Mr. Westrup's problems were being caused by his PC but the technician couldn't say how to diagnose the glitch. So Mr. Westrup says he again swapped his iPod for a replacement from Apple through the mail. Mr. Westrup says he is now awaiting his fifth iPod replacement from the company after similar problems with subsequent replacements; the company has continued sending replacement models despite the expiration of Apple's standard one-year warranty. (IPod users can extend the coverage period to two years from the device's purchase date for $59.) Mr. Westrup says he and his wife used the iPods carefully during activities such as walking their dogs or working out on an elliptical trainer. "I'm 51 years old -- I'm not a teenager throwing it across the room," he says. "I wouldn't say I'm abusing it." More consumers are raising questions about the lifespan of iPods, battery issues, repairs and easily scratched -- or cracked -- screens. WSJ's Bryan Keogh reports.The best-known complaint about the iPod, dating back to its earliest models, is about its battery. Many users grumble that the charge of the lithium-ion battery inside the device appears to get progressively shorter the more they use the music player. Last year, Apple agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by users whose iPods saw significantly diminishing battery life, agreeing to compensate owners of certain early iPod models $25 in cash or with a $50 Apple credit on Apple products. What ticks off many users is that the iPod's battery and other parts are not designed to be replaced by the average user. There are no screws on the outside of its case that allow iPods to be easily disassembled, giving the device a sleek, unblemished appearance. Apple replaces the batteries on out-of-warranty iPods for $65.95, including shipping charges. Hard disks, which are used in higher-end iPods to store songs, can also fail. Bill Torpey, a software developer in New York, says the iPod he bought for his daughter, now in high school, a couple of years ago stopped working after the product's warranty expired, and the hard disk inside of it started making a strange noise. After doing some research online, Mr. Torpey decided on a somewhat daring fix for the problem: He held the iPod about six inches above a desk and dropped it. The iPod family of models, including the Nano and Shuffle. The fix worked for a few weeks, he says, but then the iPod stopped functioning again. Meanwhile, an iPod Mr. Torpey bought for his son also has begun acting up, restarting itself seemingly at random. "Caveat emptor," he says. "I won't buy another one." For such situations, there's a cottage industry of independent iPod repair shops that offer replacement services for less than what Apple charges for comparable repairs, including do-it-yourself battery replacement kits ranging from $25 to $35 that usually include a special tool for prying open the iPod. In his experience, Mr. Bremner of iRepair.ca estimates iPod batteries, on average, last about two years before needing to be replaced. Despite the beefs, consumers' love affair with the iPod shows no sign of going sour. In spite of determined competitors in the portable-player market like Microsoft Corp. and SanDisk Corp., Apple's share of the market for 2006 will likely end up roughly where it was last year, between 73% and 75%, says Stephen Baker, an analyst at retail sales tracker NPD Group Inc. In an online survey of more than 6,400 consumers that NPD conducted earlier this year, the firm found that 82% of iPod owners were completely or very satisfied with the device, compared with 76% for rival music devices. The iPod's shortcomings "haven't impacted their sales any that I can tell," says Mr. Baker. "However widespread, obviously customers are not considering [a lack of durability] an issue." There's also no getting around that the iPod is a sensitive piece of electronics and that some users are simply too rough with them. Ryan Arter, president of ResQ Systems LLC of Kansas City, Kan, says most of the devices his iPod repair service, iPodResQ.com, receives from customers are damaged by, for instance, being dropped on the ground or tossed around inside a book bag. Some of Mr. Arter's customers don't immediately fess up to the causes of the technical problems, even when their iPods have dented cases. As a general rule, he says, "natural" iPod failures tend to occur with devices that are a year old or older. Mr. Arter says roughly a third of the iPod repairs his company does are for damaged screens, a third for batteries and a third for other miscellaneous problems like hard-disk failures. He adds that newer models of iPods appear to be getting more durable. Mr. Arter says his company has seen far fewer repair requests for Apple's new version of the iPod Nano than it did for the first iPod Nano, a slim device for which iPodResQ saw replacement orders for cracked screens quickly after its release. As pricey as many models of the iPods are, some users seem to accept the idea that their iPods are more or less disposable, a phenomenon common in the cellphone market where users regularly upgrade to more stylish models. One gauge of that, Mr. Arter says, is the growing popularity of a buyback option iPodResQ.com offers for iPods with technical problems. Rather than pay to have the devices repaired, growing numbers of its customers opt to sell them for parts to iPodResQ, typically for between $35 and $95 -- money that can then be applied to the purchase of a new iPod.

try a crobar to help pry off the strips

They dont come out on sunday

of course it was

why would you only stay in a hotel for a couple of hrs?? super 8 on Broadway in Astoria near 14th street is about a 15 block walk to subway station.. use to live right down the block from it..not bad and easy to get into city with

Not too many hotels in Astoria, but try by Laguardia airport.. Nothing fancy but hotels are a short taxi ride away from astoria or the city

Flatulence, not turbulence forces plane landing in Nashville Flatulence brought 99 passengers on an American Airlines flight to an unscheduled visit to Nashville early Monday morning.Advertisement American Flight 1053, from Washington Reagan National Airport and bound for Dallas/Fort Worth, made an emergency landing here after passengers reported smelling struck matches, said Lynne Lowrance, a spokeswoman for the Nashville International Airport Authority. The plane landed safely. The FBI, Transportation Safety Administration and airport authority responded to the emergency, Lowrance said. The passengers and five crew members were brought off the plane, together with all the luggage, to go through security checks again. Bomb-sniffing dogs found spent matches. The FBI questioned a passenger who admitted she struck the matches in an attempt to conceal body odor, Lowrance said. The woman lives near Dallas and has a medical condition. The flight took off again, but the woman was not allowed back on the plane. "American has banned her for a long time," Lowrance said. She was not charged but could have been. While it is legal to bring as many as four books of paper safety matches onto an aircraft, it is illegal to strike a match in an airplane, Lowrance said.

let the girl be.. it was kinda funny at first but now she is comming on and asking you to stop.. give her some respect

Its not white on black crime.. The cop who shot 31x was lebanese/syrian.. Regardless rev al and his posse came out against the police and in this instance i agree with them.. The cops are not just in clubs they are in bars and shitty strip clubs looking for things wrong. No gun was found and these 3 guys were shot up... All giuliani did was lock people up and thats what this city needed.. it was a mess with dinkins, but NYC is a bit like a police state now.. Cant even fart without getting some sort of ticket.. i do sorta miss the old days when the city had a spirt about it. now its just yuppie assholes who did not grow up here and moved b/c of friends and sex in the city.. then wonder why they get killed or mugged b/c they are walking alone on 12 ave at 5am..

sounds like one of Danny T's parties these days

I liked his set and had a great time.. It was good to see old friends from back in the day.. place had a good vibe and the music even though dark it was good and i was dancing all night.. i have heard a lot worse from junior in the past.. Only thing man are they strict there friend got kicked out for smoking cig..

Space did open here in NY but in the hamptons where life use to be.. Place sucked and was done by end of summer

Its not saying the same joke 500 times in a row, its the peoples reactions to him are whats funny.. U see people let their guard down and see the prejudices and racism come out. Who could really believe he is from a country wehre they make homosexuals wear blue hats, and keep retarded people in cages.. When people here in america agree and show their stupidity thats whats funny..

actually yes, when u put it like that i agree..