Hill Country Chicken (1123 Broadway at 26th Street) has a community bulletin board for the neighborhood where you can find neighborhood specialists and events, or post one of your own card or flyer. It’s free and a great resource for the neighborhood. Find a photographer, a dentist, a cleaner, a dog walker, a tutor, an acupuncturist, etc.
And pick up some amazing fried chicken while you are there.
DNAinfo reports that the MoMath (Museum of Mathematics), which is opening this year on the north side of Madison Square Park (11 East 26th Street), did get approval by the City’s Landmarks Commission for their proposed front entrance and window facade. The design was originally called ‘too modern’ and denied by the Community Board 5 Landmark committee, but the official New York City Landmarks Commission has the final word on such matters.
The state of the art museum is slated to open in the fall of 2012 and will feature dozens of math related exhibits ‘that will showcase the beauty, creativity, and real world applications of mathematics’. In concept it has been compared to San Francisco’s amazing Exploratorium.
The first real snow of 2012 hit Madison Square Park in the Flatiron starting last night and continues into today. Here’s a photo:
We had heard rumors yesterday that the hawk in Madison Square Park had been seen eating a pigeon, and sure enough there’s video of the meal on Youtube.com. After earlier sightings of the hawk seemingly hanging out with squirrels and all the other wildlife in Madison Square Park, it was unclear what the hawk ate. But now we know…
(Warning! Not for the squeamish!)
Happy New Year!!
Many of you have seen the red-tailed hawk which has been hanging around recently in Madison Square Park. Well Igor Tsiperson snapped an awesome photo of the hawk perched just a couple feet away from a squirrel. And yes from what I understand hawks do eat squirrels, but our Madison Square Park squirrels are almost domesticated given their constant interaction with tourists. Apparently this squirrel in the photograph lived. Hawks also eat mice and rats, which is good for the city.
Definitely check out the photo in the New York Times at http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/09/caption-contest-showdown-in-madison-square-park/.
This week, the Wall Street Journal took a closer look at the Flatiron/Madison Square Park/Nomad neighborhoods, and its resurgence over the last 10 years. As well all know, the areas have been booming with new retail (Eataly, Marimekko), startups (Groupme, Zynga, Clickable) , hotels (Ace Hotel, mAve, Nomad Hotel, Flatiron Hotel), restaurants (Breslin, John Dory, Sd26, Hurricane Club, Aselina, Millesime, Junoon, Le Mar, Beechers, Nuela, Bar Breton, etc) and designers (Vera Wang, Bonobos, Junko Yoshioka).
Read the full article at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203833104577072303838288104.html.
Jobs in the Flatiron
