What brown skirt and blouse on fashion designer new york dsi game is to be used?

Been trying for hours now. This is for the Imagine Fashion Designer New York Dsi game. It says to pick a brown blouse and skirt. I have tried every combination but nothing works. help!

Auction helps cover $8M debt of NYC landmark

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The sale ended Friday and included about 20,000 items from the landmark establishment in Central Park - from crystal chandeliers to a pig-shaped weather vane and all the china and kitchen equipment.

The highest bid - $180,000 - was for a Tiffany glass ceiling used in other restaurants owned by Tavern operator Warner LeRoy, the Russian Tea Room and Maxwell's Plum.

Other top items at the Guernsey's auction were a Tiffany glass ceiling piece that went for $120,000 and a Tiffany peacock mural that sold for $75,000.

Tavern on the Green closed its doors on New Year's Eve after 75 years.

What is the most popular online classifieds website for New York?

Is it Craigslist? Or is there something better? What about Chicago?

Stop everything: New York Jets at San Diego Chargers: AFC Divisional Playoff Preview

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Make no mistake about it, the Jets are confident heading into Sunday’s AFC Divisional Playoff game against the Chargers. Coach Rex Ryan even went as far as to give his team a schedule that ends with a Super Bowl victory parade in downtown Manhattan. But first thing’s first, and that’s a matchup against the hottest team in the AFC—the San Diego Chargers. Here are three story lines heading into this weekend’s game:

Ground and Pound

The Jets have the No. 1 rushing attack in the league and will look to continue their dominance up front in San Diego. Gang Green has developed an identity and it is one of a physical unit (on both sides of the ball) that will stay committed to the run at all costs because they are built for it.

It doesn’t hurt that the Chargers were ranked 20th against the run during the regular season and 16th in overall defense. The two-headed monster consisting of Thomas Jones and rookie Shonn Greene combined for 169 yards and two touchdowns in the Wild Card victory over Cincinnati.

With that said, the most intriguing part of this will be how effective the Jets will be given the fact that the Chargers know Jets will (and must) run the ball to have success on offense.

Strength on Strength

Philip Rivers leads a Chargers’ offense that was the fifth best passing team in the NFL during the regular season (271.1 YPG). Darrelle Revis leads a Jets’ defense that was ranked first overall and first against the pass. Something has got to give, right?

The challenge for the Jets will be dealing with San Diego’s vast arsenal of weapons. WR Vincent Jackson and TE Antonio Gates each had over 1,000 yards receiving in 2009 and six players caught at least 20 passes. Oh yeah, they still have LaDainian Tomlinson in the backfield. And although he’s not the player he once was, he’s still very dangerous and has the ability to score on any given play.

You have to figure that Revis will get matched up on Jackson and S Kerry Rhodes will take on Gates. But what about Malcolm Floyd and Legedu Naanee? There’s also Darren Sproles who caught 45 passes coming out of the backfield and FB Mike Tobert who caught 25. See what I mean?

If there’s any week where the Jets dress as many defensive backs as possible, it’s this week. Rex Ryan is a defensive mastermind and will surely come up with something that the Chargers have yet to see on film. It should be interesting to watch when these two units are on the field.

Steady Sanchez

Last week Mark Sanchez had the highest quarterback rating (139.4) for any rookie in a playoff game—ever! And while it’s unlikely that he will replicate that performance, the Jets are going to need to him to continue to play smart, turnover-free football if they’re going to have a chance to beat the Chargers.

As I pointed out before last week’s game, there will come multiple points in the game where the Jets will face 3rd-and-long and Sanchez will have to make a throw in a big spot, under pressure. The outcomes of those plays will ultimately determine the Jets’ chances in this game.

Last week he passed the test. Jets’ fans are hoping he passes his second exam this week.

This one poked my funnybone: Empire City - New York City jokes always will ;)

As soon as I saw this funny picture I knew I had to share with you Click for the location of the original New York City photo because it is the polite thing to do.



Can anybody discuss this in a calm way?

Wait just a minute Mark Sanchez and confident New York Jets are ready for San Diego Chargers

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BY Kristie Ackert

DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER

Saturday, January 16th 2010, 4:00 AM

Ready to Bolt

What's the biggest key to a Jets victory on Sunday?

The trash-talking was toned down Friday, with just some loose banter in Gang Green's locker room. There were no bold guarantees, just Jets talking about their belief in themselves. After a week of beating their chests, the Jets left New Jersey quietly, turning their focus toward beating the Chargers while heading out to San Diego for tomorrow's AFC divisional playoff game.

Think of it as the confident calm before tomorrow's storm.

After a light practice Friday, during which the Jets blared the Chargers' fight song from speakers on the sidelines just once, Rex Ryan's gang left its training facility with a new sense of confidence.

"If you just look at it on paper, we match up well against these guys," tackle Damien Woody said before the Jets arrived in San Diego Friday night. "I've heard people say we don't even have a chance to go out there and win. I am looking at it and I don't understand why not."

That confidence is something that had been missing from recent Jets playoff teams, defensive end Shaun Ellis said.

"Last time we went to the playoffs with (former coach Eric) Mangini, we were a little antsy, we weren't settled and we couldn't get settled and it kept us off-balance," said Ellis, who in his 10th season is the longest-tenured Jet. "I remember telling myself, 'The next time we get to the playoffs, we have to be a calm and settled bunch, we just can't be out there rattling ourselves, we can't be fighting against ourselves.'

"This team is different," Ellis added, looking around a quiet locker room. "We are a confident bunch."

Some would say that is an understatement. Ryan, the brash first-year coach who weeks earlier mistakenly declared his team out of the playoffs, last week boldly printed up a postseason schedule that included a trip to the Super Bowl and a save-the-date for a parade up the Canyon of Heroes. To outsiders, that approach may seem overly confident, but inside the locker room, the Jets' players believe in their new identity.

"Coaches have said that we had an identity before, but we didn't have one. This is the first team I've been on that you know what you are going to get, you know who you are and you know what it takes for us to win as a team," said guard Brandon Moore. "I think that's where our comfort comes from. You know what it takes to win, you know who you are, and that brings that confidence that you see in us."

That boldness made a difference last week when the Jets were underdogs going into Cincinnati, wide receiver Jerricho Cotchery said. Unlike their last playoff game, a wild-card loss to the Patriots three years ago, the Jets were not intimidated by what was ahead of them.

"I didn't get the sense we knew where we were headed," Cotchery said of the 2006 Jets team that lost to the Patriots. "But this team is definitely a confident team. We feel like we have the talent in the room to make a run at it. I definitely feel that confidence from everyone in here. There is no doubt at all in this locker room."

How much emergency money should I bring to New York City?

Me and three friends are going to New York from the south. We want to know how much money we should bring, in case the car breaks down, or something absolutley terrible happens.

New York found in the headlines - Project Runway: It's up to you, New York!

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That about covers it. Also, some dude named" Seth Aaron" broke one of the beds, I guess to prove he shouldn't be messed with. He's also dressed like Tommy Lee, in his post-Motley Crue, post-Pamela Anderson, post-Hepatitis C look. (Now that I think about it, can you really be post-Hepatitis C? I bet Tommy and Pam are hoping so.) 

Up on the rooftop, HeidiBot 3000, the most fertile and beautiful cyborg German scientists have ever created, welcomes our crew and proposes a toast of champagne to welcome us back to NYC.

"I'm pregnant, so I'll be having apple cider," Heidi says. Of course you are, honey. I should mention she's wearing another leopard print, her go-to outfit for last season. Say what you will about her, but the woman loves draping herself in the essence of jungle cats.

Tim Gunn is looking fabulous, as expected. I shouldn't even have to say that. But I will. As the only person to retain his dignity from Season 6, Tim is owed that much.

During the small talk, one of the designers, Emilio, mentions he's from New York. Heidibot 3000's super hearing mechanism immediately picks up on this.

"This used to be my town too," Heidi laments.

Yeah, it's a shame someone held a gun to your head and made you and the Weinsteins move the show to Los Angeles, or forced you to pick designers who were attractive, but bad at actually making clothes, which destroyed the show's aesthetic and made us feel like you'd sacrificed its soul to the Evil Goddess Lifetimeus.

We won't get too deep into any of the contestants just yet, although I will say that I was a bit taken aback by the fact that they gave Ben -- a designer from Tampa who looks like he's from Eastern Europe -- subtitles when he spoke, even though he seemed to be speaking perfect English. I'm no expert, but I'm going to assume that's racist, Heidi.

The challenge this week is to design an outfit from some fabrics you found in Central Park. Project Runway and Mood have made this easy, however, by leaving reams and reams of fabrics around in Central Park, within about 15 feet of one another. I'm not even sure why they bothered to go to CP if they weren't going to make this interesting. Were the producers sitting around thinking, "So, we have a really tight budget, but we need something that is really NEW YORK to make everyone forget about last season's disaster. Hey, how about going to The Park?"

They could have at least thrown in a twist: Design an outfit inspired by someone sleeping in Central Park. Alas, no.

There is a lot of running and screaming when Tim tells the designers to grab as much fabric as they can in three minutes, but not nearly enough cat fighting. Seriously, Project Runway, if you really wanted to win back my heart, someone should have been pushed in the pond during this challenge. Now you're just going to have to earn it.

At the end of the challenge, one of the desingers, Ping, who is from China by way of Chicago, waves a huge swatch of red fabric around, almost like it's the Chinese Communist flag. I think Glenn Beck just had aneurysm.

Back in the workroom, our fearless designers get to work, some of them on HP TouchSmart Notebooks, which is a new twist this year. Project Runway lurching forward into the new century! How this is better than a sketch book, I have no idea, but he designers all feign enthusiasm because product placement is essentially these days when running a low budget reality show.

"If you choose to use them, please do!" says Tim Gunn, in a bizarre bit of Orwelian NewSpeak.

Ok Tim, I'm on board, but only because someone has to pay for your tie budget.

Is it just me, or does this episode have about 200 commercials? My TiVo seems exhausted. I feel like I've seen about six minutes of actual content, and 30 mins of original Lifetime programing starring Thora Birch about teenagers forming a pregnancy pact. Based on a true story! (I bet Heidi put them up to it, btw.)

Not much interesting happens in the workroom, except for the fact that a designer named Anthony quickly emerges as this season's comic relief. On the "Just how gay is he?" scale of 1-to-10, he's an obvious 12, which is awesome. It takes a lot of gay to Out Gay everyone on Project Runway, but already Anthony has established himself as my favorite personality of the young season.

"Oh my! I'm sweating like a Baptist preacher!" Anthony says.

Ping, in a predictable twist, is clearly going to be this season's eccentric but talented weirdo. Tim Gunn questions why she's wearing the outfit she's designing, and when she confesses that she didn't have dress form growing up, it oddly makes sense.

Emilio doesn't even have a top done and we're less than eight hours from the Runway Show, which gives Tim and opportunity to lecture Emilio on how "no one has ever not finished an outfit in the history of Project Runway." I think this is a bit of selective memory on Tim's part. I think we all recall when crazy Angela sent a model down the runway with a scarf stuffed under a jacket in Season 3 because she totally bombed a shirt.

Time to skip ahead to the runway show. Guess who's back, suckas? Oh hellz yes, it's Michael Kors and Nina Garcia. They sure better be rested and ready for maximum snark after phoning it in all last season. Somewhere, Zoe Glassner weeps, I'm certain.

Ruining my fun somewhat is the fact that Nicole Richie is the guest judge this week. Heidi describes her in her introduction as a "television personality" who is "getting ready to launch her new line." That's a bit more generous than how I would have introduced her: the adopted daughter of Lionel Richie who was best known for being a talentless socialite and former heroin addict until she was impregnated twice by the lead singer of Good Charlotte, a pop-punk Green Day rip off band.

Let's skip straight to the meat of things, shall we? Emilio's dress came together beautifully. A designer named Jesus appears to have put together his look with Sharon Stone in mind, and not the "Basic Instinct" Sharon Stone. More like the leather-wearing, eyes-glassed-over, headed-for-rehab Sharon Stone. His dress is so tight, I'm pretty I saw the outline of the models kidneys. Ping's tornado of fabric, I think, was inspired by the garbage heap on Fraggle Rock. And yet, it's not that bad. I'm totally blown away by this.

Christiane, a designer from Los Angeles who is originally from Ivory Coast, has pulled together something that Paula Abdul would wear. I don't mean this as a compliment. It's bad. A designer named Janeane puts together a simple black top and a skirt with pleats in the front. I like it, but my wife thinks it's hideous and since she still have pregnancy hormones pulsing through her, I nod my head and pretend I hate it too.

My man Anthony did not exactly nail it, presenting a dress that looks sort of like someone has stitched a satchel to his model's hip where she hide  a loaf of French bread if she needed to smuggle it out of the store. (But who am I kidding? Models don't eat bread. I meant watercress.) Michael later describes it as a way for her to "steal champagne bottles at a garden party." Damn you Michael Kors for writing lines more clever than I. Where were you last year when Lindsay Lohan was passed out in her chair, mumbling about Nicolas' brilliance?

All the other designers are fairly unremarkable, except for Seth Aaron, who has put together a nice little punk rock plaid dress with a cool back. I could see Nicole Richie in this outfit, if she put on 30 pounds.

 In the end, Emilio earns a well-deserved victory, and Christiane gets sent home, just edging out Jesus' Sharon Stone stripper outfit. (I was so unmoved by the whole thing, I'm not even going to do my usual gag about scary music and tension mounting. But just know that the music was scary, and the tension was not.)

 I'm not sure Christiane was the worst designer by a long stretch, but she was boring and bad in the first challenge. If you're going to be bad in the first challenge, you need to be memorable. She just didn't create a character for herself. Essentially, if you stab someone with a needle in the workroom, your chances of staying are better than if you're boring.

Until next week, gang! 

 

Photo: Project Runway promotional handout

Does anyone know a good auto insurance company new york that doesnt charge hundreds of dollars?

i just moved to new york, and i plan on bringing my car our here only if i can afford the car insurace a month i pay no more than 170 a month in california , and im not planning on paying any more in nyc >>so if anyone knows of a company that has good prices please let me know>>>thanks!

Sphere NYC Haitians Reel From News of Earthquake

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NEW YORK (Jan. 13) – They say not knowing is the worst part. For New York City's Haitian population, many of whom still cannot get in touch with relatives in Haiti, the stress is overwhelming.

At the Bedford Haitian Community Center in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, this morning, employees were on the phone trying to get through to relatives with no success. "It is stressful," said Maidjine Bataille, a 27-year-old native of Haiti who has a great-grandmother, grandmother, half sister, cousin, uncle and aunt still living there. "It's like you don't know what's going on, who's alive, who's dead."

Throughout the city's Haitian community the message was the same. Few people had been able to contact family in Port-au-Prince, and as images of devastation poured through television screens, fear and anxiety grew.

"Everybody's worried because we don't know, deeply, we don't know what the damage is," said Joseph Dormeus, executive director of the Bedford center. "Physically we see the damage on the house, on the building, but we don't know how many people that are dead."

Dormeus said the community center was open late Tuesday night as people gathered to try to call family. This morning people came again, some in tears, trying in vain to get news of their family members. By late morning the seven people who remained, mostly employees, watched scenes of destruction on the news and on YouTube.

"We have not been able to digest what's going on because the news has been scattered," said Samuel Barthelemy, who has lived in the United States for 40 years. "I hardly got any sleep because my younger son is in Haiti and I couldn't get any news."

Barthelemy, 62, works at the Haitian Centers Council in Flatbush. He was one of the few who finally did make contact with family when he received an e-mail this morning saying his 13-year-old son was safe.

His co-worker, Dr. Marie Pierre-Louis, was another one of the rare lucky ones. She had been in Haiti for the holidays and got back to New York on Sunday. She managed to speak with her 93-year-old father, who lives alone in Port-au-Prince, and her sister right after the earthquake Tuesday evening.

The news they had could have been much worse. Her brother-in-law had hurt a few fingers and had a gash in his head. She had just enough time to tell them where she had left some gauze before they were cut off.

"I try all of them and keep trying and keep trying," Pierre-Louis said. But since last night, she has not had any news.

Her brother has fared far worse. His wife works in a government ministry in Port-au-Prince and he has not heard any news from her. Pierre-Louis said he is "going nuts."

Pierre-Louis also has a blind uncle she has no news of, and her son can't get in touch with his girlfriend.

Stories just like these are the norm today. And though many woke up and went to work this morning, disbelief and shock have consumed many of New York's Haitians, who are used to dealing with hurricanes on their island nation, but rarely earthquakes.

Haitian President René Préval told reporters today that the destruction from the 7.0-magnitude quake was "unimaginable" and that he was now homeless himself. Early unofficial estimates place the death toll in the thousands.

Dormeus of the Bedford center said he hoped the aftershocks would stop. "A continuation, the way I see it, will be the end of Port-au-Prince," he said, adding that the devastation there will damage the rest of the country, which relies heavily on the capital.

The idea that Port-au-Prince will never be the same added to the shock and disbelief in New York.

"It will never be the way it was when I grew up," Pierre-Louis said. "Port-au-Prince as we know it won't exist anymore."

What would be the fastest way to get from New Jersey to the New York Public Library in Manhattan?

Also probably the fastest that's the least expensive. I was assuming driving to Staten Island and taking the ferry and then a bus uptown would be the better of the ways. Any other suggestions?

Mayor Bloomberg's House Is Fair Game for Protest, Fans of Public Schools Say: I'm sure we must all feel sulky

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     MANHATTAN (CN) - Activists say New York City unfairly denied them a permit to demonstrate in front of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's house to protest his support of a policy that could close 22 public schools.

     Bloomberg declared himself a "strong supporter" of charter schools, which the students, parent and teacher plaintiffs say "have generally denied parents meaningful involvement in their children's school affairs, denied teachers the right to unionize and often have worked to the detriment of the education of students."

     In their federal complaint, the plaintiffs say that under Bloomberg's plan, "There are approximately 22 schools currently slated to be closed, at least in part to make way for charter schools, including secondary schools with longstanding ties to the communities in which they are located."

     The Department of Education will convene a 13-member Panel for Educational policy to vote on the 22 closings on Jan. 26.

     The activists say they planned to protest in front of the mayor's house before the vote, on Jan 21, but the city denied them a permit.

     "Unlike previous New York City mayors, Mayor Bloomberg lives in a five-story townhouse on the north side of East 79th Street between Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue, rather than the Gracie Mansion," according to the complaint.

Though there is a space near Gracie Mansion commonly used by protesters, the city has barred the plaintiffs from gathering near Bloomberg's house. The students, parent and teacher say that Bloomberg's house is fair game because it has been used for fund raisers, meetings with political leaders and receptions for visiting dignitaries.

     They say the NYPD allowed people to protest the closing of a firehouse in front of Bloomberg's house in the summer of 2003. And they add that demonstrations have been permitted in front of the homes of former Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, former New York City Fire Department Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta and State Senator Carl Kruger.

     The plaintiffs say New York City has violated First and Fourteenth Amendments.

     They are represented by Norman Siegel, formerly of the NYCLU.

Disappointing New York rumors: New York Senate urged to expel Senator after probe

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York's state senate should vote on whether to expel Democratic Senator Hiram Monserrate, who was convicted of a domestic violence misdemeanor, and if that resolution fails, vote on censuring him, a senate investigating committee said on Thursday.

Barack Obama

The Democrats hold the senate by just two votes and analysts fear the battle over Monserrate's fate could cause a deadlock that would make it much harder for New York to meet is March 31 budget deadline.

Senator Eric Schneiderman, who chaired the bipartisan Special Committee of Inquiry, told reporters at a web cast news conference the body weighed the "totality" of Monserrate's conduct in making its recommendations.

"This is not based on the facts of Senator Monserrate's misdemeanor conviction, it's based on the review of all the conduct and other factors, including credibility and the lack of cooperation with the committee and what we note is a failure to take responsibility," the Democratic senator said.

However, Schneiderman said the senate could reject the committee's recommendations and instead punish Monserrate, one of the co-leaders of last year's failed coup, by imposing a fine, for example.

Monserrate and Senator Pedro Espada last year sought to overturn the senate leadership under President Malcolm Smith.

Monserrate's lawyer criticized the report and the committee, saying it had made up its mind before undertaking its probe.

"The Select Committee's Report amounts to a self-serving document --full of material omissions, legal inaccuracies, and factual distortions -- designed to justify a result the Select Committee desired before even commencing its investigations report," Joseph Tacopina said by email.

If the senate does not reject the findings, Monserrate will sue, and continue to serve as his community's representative, he said. "We are confident that the courts will correct that injustice," Tacopina said.

Monserrate's expulsion would have been automatic if had been convicted of either of the two felonies with which he was charged, but Schneiderman said the legislature's legal powers allowed it to do so anyway.

"I'm absolutely confident that we're on firm legal ground," he said. The last time New York state legislators were rejected was in the 1920 "Red Scare," when five Socialist Party Assembly members were not allowed to take their seats.

(Reporting by Joan Gralla; Editing by Andrew Hay)

In New York City, is Ozone Park considered to be a good neighborhood?

I came across a reference to it in an old novel, and the story made it sound sort of upper middle class. Is this true, or outdated? (The book was almost 30 years old.)

Air America (press release) (blog) NYC Officials Shred Seized Clothes, Refuse To Donate

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In the wake of last week's reports that H&M mutilated unsold clothing before discarding it, the New York Times reports that the city of New York is participating in similarly wasteful practices.

Police destroyed bootleg clothing and shoes taken from raids on counterfeit operations after they were no longer needed as evidence. The goods were new, and included winter jackets, shirts, and pants. The shredding of usable, much-needed clothing cost the city $150 per ton.

In the past, the city has donated confiscated goods to aid groups, but the chief spokesman for the Police Department, Paul J. Browne, claimed there were no requests for clothing in 2009. The operators of a clothing bank disputed this.

Historically, organizations that received the donations avoided trademark infringement by defacing the knockoff labels. But the counterfeit status of the clothing still creates obstacles to its distribution. Major fashion brands are fighting expensive battles with counterfeiters--an agenda backed by Mayor Bloomberg--and they are reluctant to let bootleg goods back into circulation, even as charitable donations.

Robert Rucker, a lawyer with Tucker and Lafiti, a firm that represents Steve Madden and Zac Posen among others, offered his particularly smarmy and corporate-minded opinion on the companies:

“These are people who spend hundreds of thousands of dollars, some of them millions, to get counterfeit goods off the street. Everyone wants to feed and clothe the homeless. But how are you going to spend all this money and then put it back on the street?”

Interestingly, the fashion and licensing industries are financial supporters of the New York City Police Foundation, and in turn the NYC Police Foundation has backed trademark infringement investigations. According to the New York City Department of Homeless Services' Daily Census, as of January 8 there are 36,997 homeless New Yorkers. Donations of counterfeit goods could certainly be put to good use, but clearly the city has other priorities.