JohnWHenry: 7 pages [of posts] already. There is a saying in business, "Until it's signed you don't have a deal"... Amazing group here. We're keeping busy too. Best Regards, John

I had been looking about the familiar Stadium surround in valedictory fashion—the motel-landscape bullpens, the UTZ Potato Chip sign over in right—but from here to the end sat transfixed by the cascade of events, scarcely able to draw a full breath. No other sport does this, and even as we stare and cry “Can you believe this?” we forget how often it comes along, how it’s built into baseball.

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This is gruesome stuff... A Japanese architectural firm comes up with a 'bold' design, and then pays lip service to the neighborhood, despite the fact that they obviously couldn't care less. This building would be equally ugly anywhere, but it certainly doesn't belong in residential downtown New York, where commercial high-rise structures are unheard of.

Q: How does your design address the context of the Bowery—the thoroughfare itself, the beginning of Prince Street at the site, the surrounding of smallish buildings of different styles and conditions?
SANAA: We wanted to be as consistent as possible with the scale of the existing surroundings. However, our building has to accommodate a much bigger program than its neighbors do. By shifting the different levels of the structure in relation to one another, we are also diminishing the bulk and establishing a more effective, dynamic relationship with the buildings in the area. On the other hand, because this area is in transition, we believe the New Museum building should have a strong identity of its own in order to survive, especially on a street as tough as the Bowery.

Q: You've often talked of SANAA's interest in exploring boundaries with its architecture. How do the Bowery's characteristics as a literal and figurative urban boundary suggest responses you are designing?
SANAA: To us the Bowery is less a boundary than a neutral "demilitarized" zone between neighborhoods that have very distinctive personalities—Nolita, the East Village, Chinatown. We see the Bowery as a path to a wider panorama. Accepting and embracing every oddity in an unprejudiced manner, this street is a place where every imaginable future seems possible, and that makes it a particularly beautiful site for the New Museum.

Indeed. Note how, in the below photo composite that looks south down Bowery from Houston, they left an idling truck in the foreground. Truly, nothing says "Bowery Goodness" like fresh diesel fumes—and (you saw this coming, right?) stacked boxes! [Composite shot at top looks east at the new New Museum from Prince and Elizabeth. Memo to museum fundraisers: there's your money shot.]

· Design for a new, New Museum [newmuseum.org]
· New Museum Selects Architects [newmuseum.org]
· Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa [iccm.at]

Hey - Fresh Direct says (as of 11:00 PM) that they WILL deliver to my address between Stanton and Rivington. I better place an order NOW, before they change their minds!

So what's next? Are you planning to mount a defense for the "Gentlemen's Club" across the street from the Anna Silver Elementary School on Houston and Essex?

TiVo has an enterprise value of about $550 million, which values each of its subscribers at $550. XM Satellite has an enterprise value of $3.0 billion, valuing each of its subs nearly 6 times higher, at $3,000. Netflix's enterprise value is $1.3 billion, valuing its subs at $1,000 per head.

TM: "At 155 Ridge, just below Houston, still a no-go for Fresh Direct."
AL: "Fresh Direct does indeed deliver to me at Grand Street & FDR and it's awesome. It's unfoutunate for you that they left out your pocket but if enough people make phone calls they may start delivery."
DF: "Live on Ludlow btwn broome and grand and they told us they would start delivering there this week."

Since the middle of last week, we've been getting emails from Lower East Side residents crowing about the fact that food delivery maestros FreshDirect finally are delivering to the hood. Well, as our own futile efforts to order up the goods this past weekend demonstrated, that's not exactly true. To prove the point, we've keyed numerous addresses into the FreshDirect address input to find out just which LES residents are gettin' lucky. The results, which we've rendered on the map below, may astound you.


N.B. Though we've spent many manhours to present only the finest quality information to you, some of the above borders may be inaccurate. If you live in The 10002, your FreshDirect delivery experiences, good or bad, and we'll update the above map. Meantime, see you on the block, doing our shopping the ole fashion way—ordering in from Li'l Frankies.
· Fresh Direct [freshdirect.com]