A red-tailed hawk perches on Teddy Roosevelt’s horse’s head in front of the Museum of Natural History. “I thought Teddy would approve,” wrote Ryan Hughes, who took the shot.
January 15, 2013 Weather: Cloudy, High of 42 Degrees.
Notices:
Free Juilliard concerts, and a reading about David Petraeus on our calendar.
News:
A Russian princess is trying to sell her four-bedroom home on West 64th Street for $8 million, almost twice what she paid for it. What does a Russian princess have in her home? “There is lots of black leather, bright red and metallic accents and in the living room, not one but two baby grands (one in white, one in black)… The prewar, loft-like apartment has posh touches like barrel-vaulted ceilings, marble-clad bathrooms and juliet balconies. Buyers with champagne tastes on a beer budget should look elsewhere. In fact, Ms. Kovalenko doesn’t even deign to drink anything as commonplace as champagne—her signature cocktail is $5,000-a-bottle Louis XIII Remy Martin cognac mixed with apple juice.” (Observer via Curbed)
If your kids take a school bus to school, prepare for a strike starting Wednesday. (NY Times)
The DOT will add maps throughout the city to encourage walking and answer tourists’ questions. (Transportation Nation)
Vince Morgan is running for City Council, and could represent Manhattanville. He thinks Columbia needs to do better: “My effort is to keep the fire under the Columbia University administration to make sure they live up to the promises they made to our community,” he said in an interview Monday night. (Columbia Spectator)
East Villagers are convinced that they have more rats than the Upper West Side, even though we complain about them more. (EV Grieve)
