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Fourth avenue and Carroll street #flooding right now
YIKES.
Psychic TV’s New York Story is a beautiful audiovisual document of Genesis P-Orridge and Lady Jaye’s journey to eliminate their physical differences and become Breyer P-Orridge. (NSFW)
If you’re not on board with my use of the word “beautiful” above, take a look at the trailer for The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye for further explanation. Then ponder this:
Genesis P-Orridge and Lady Jaye were the 21st century’s John and Yoko.
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A Brooklyn Heights playground was renamed to Adam Yauch Park today, in honor of the dearly departed Beastie Boy.
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A Brooklyn Heights playground was renamed to Adam Yauch Park today, in honor of the dearly departed Beastie Boy.
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Colorful brownstones line St. Nicholas Ave at West 156th Street in Washington Heights, upper Manhattan.
Douglas Rushkoff visits the Sutton Clock Shop to talk about the terror of time.
The clock shop’s owner has some feelings about time, too.
I have lunch at Michael Guerrieri’s City Sandwich regularly. I could happily eat there every day. He makes excellent food and he’s a good guy.
He makes a compelling argument that minimum wage hikes, health care costs and paid leave are hurting actual small businesses and forcing independent-minded people into the arms of giant corporations.
Guerrieri is concerned with the direct costs his business will incur, especially in a city where it is already expensive to do business. He agrees with many of the regulations to be implemented, but feels forcing the regulations takes away from the momentum that will allow him to reach those goals on his own.
Guerrieri compared a new business to a newborn. “The initial years are where we need a little help,” Guerrieri said. “They should allow a business to breathe in the beginning.”
Guerrieri, who currently employs eight people, wants to see his business grow and expand. His business plans include adding benefits, such as health care, for his employees.
“I want to be able to have that staff meeting one day and say, ‘Congratulations. We are going to have health care,’” Guerrieri said. He said he wants to say it proudly, with a sense of accomplishment, not because he has to.
In the long term, he said he wants to see his employees take over the new locations and run their own businesses. But he worries whether his younger employees would even want that option after seeing firsthand the cost of being in business for yourself.
“What is the incentive for the younger generations to be entrepreneurs, to be self-employed, and make a difference?” Guerrieri asked. “Why would I want to go into business when I can go to work for somebody, have everything covered?”
I’m for Obamacare. I’m for a minimum wage hike. I’m for paid sick leave. And while I won’t put words in his mouth, it seems like Guerrieri is, too. But that doesn’t make what he’s saying any less true.
Small Businesses Feeling the Squeeze in New York
Oh…and stop by his joint the next time you’re in Hell’s Kitchen. Ask him to recommend something. Your mouth will be extremely happy you did.
Signs of spring: Nathan’s has reopened on boardwalk and cars are back on the Wheel. #coneyrecovers
the sound of exhausts, car horns, talk radio, loud thoughts. (at Brooklyn/Queens Expressway (BQE))
