Deer Oval Consearge Members,We hope you had an illuminating Independence Day despite the fact we Stuyvesaont Town won't let you veew the spectacular display of grandjur from the roofs anymore. The pyrotechtronics were almost as beathtaking as Manny's bad speling! Not only is the froth of July our most treasured of summertime holidays, but it is a reminder of the rich history new york city has to offer, a rich history that gets white washed with each passing day on the word of the day calendar Manny uses to write his profilic proze.
And boy to we have a plethora of suggestions to keep you busy this summer month of July. 2nd Avenue Deli? Please! Manny knows that kind of ethnicity scares you new people which is why we suggest Pink Bery! After all those plates of pickles were quite sugestive! The east villoje used to be full of great shops filled with both up and coming and established designers that people would flock to the city buy. But Manny knows those shops can be weird if US Weekly hasn't toldd you about them first. That's why its perfect timing that ominus DKNY mural is gone from SoHo and replaced with a nice begnign shade of beige. Shop safe chubby gals!
But there are somethings that are too big even we cant destroy and those things are quite grand. Did you know there is a 150 green lady standing in the river? We are guessing you have seen her on the TV so you wont be afreaid of her and she is so nice that she will even let you upside of her. We bet Sarah jessica Partner wont even let you do that!
So please come see for yourself whats left of New York City during this most celebrated monthy of the summer!
Manny
Oval Concereiges
American Ligion
Newark Aprtoty
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Or so this latest atrocity from Oval Concierge should read.
From: Oval Concierge <ovalconcierge@abigailmichaels.com>
Date: July 13, 2009 5:50:12 PM EDT
Subject: News from Oval Concierge
Reply-To: ovalconcierge@abigailmichaels.com
Dear Oval Concierge Member,
We hope you had a spectacular Independence Day! The pyrotechnics are a fantastic highlight to this great Summer holiday, but the heart of the matter lies in what this holiday is about, which is our nation's history. In this country, one would be hard-pressed to find a city more chock-full of beauty and history than our very own New York City. In a city where every block has its own story, the myriad threads of history that built this city can be hard to discern and, unfortunately, sometimes forgotten. For the month of July, your concierges have dug deep to find you original places and activities around the city that might just slip one's mind when looking to get one's historical fix. Give Coney Island and the Statue of Liberty a break for a change and bask in the small treasures this city has to offer. You might not have known they were even there! We hope you enjoy these exciting choices and, as always, do not hesitate to call or email us with any questions that you may have!
Warm Wishes,
THE OVAL CONCIERGE TEAM
BILL'S GAY NINETIES
57 East 54th Street
New York, NY 10022
212.355.0243
Take a step back in time and enjoy the history of Prohibition and the fun of the Roaring Twenties. Bill's restaurant and piano bar at 57 East 54th Street is an original speakeasy that has not changed since it first opened its doors in 1924. However, the location's history goes back to even before Prohibition. Before it became a speakeasy, it was a residence that was inhabited by three prominent families, one of which was the family of Clement C. Moore, who was the grandson of the Clement C. Moore that wrote "A visit from St. Nicholas." Bill's has three floors. The first floor is where the piano magic happens every Monday through Saturday and the third floor is reserved for private parties. ~ Shauntelle
McSORLEY'S OLD ALE HOUSE
15 East 7th Street
New York, NY 10003
212.474.9148
McSorley's Old Ale House, located in the East Village, has been a NYC institution since the Franklin Pierce or Abraham Lincoln Administrations (depending on whose story you believe). NYC historian Richard McDermott's research indicates it opened in 1862 and has witnessed everything from the 1863 Draft Riots to the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Inside, there are hundreds of pictures on the walls, which customers have brought them in through the decades. McSorley's serves only its house brew and the proper way to order is "dark" or "light." You pay $3.50 for two small mugs at the same time.
Monday - Saturday 11am to 1am
Sunday - 1pm to 1am
*Interesting fact: McSorley's famously did not admit female patrons until the summer of 1970. ~Sherri
STATEN ISLAND BOAT GRAVEYARD
Rossville, Staten Island
The Staten Island Boat Graveyard is off the shore of the fifth borough containing skeletons of decommissioned, scrapped, and abandoned ships of various sizes, ages, and states of ruin. Rather than sink the vessels elsewhere, the City of New York has chosen this sliver of water between the island and the coast of New Jersey as the final resting place for dozens of ships. The many boats sit half beneath the surface, silent sentinels to formerly productive seafaring lives.
Things are constantly changing here. New boats are brought in and old ones are chopped up or sunk into the muddy banks of the harbor. The beauty is in the untouched rust and rotting wood, where weather and salt water accelerates the rate of decay transforming these ships of the past into sculptures of steel rising from their watery grave. Needless to say, the atmospheric surroundings make for an incredible setting for both amateur and professional photographers. An examples of what you'll find includes the moldering wreckage of The Seawells Point, a ferry that ran between the Bronx and Riker's Island until a bridge was built in the late 1960's. The site is located in the Arthur Kill Channel near the town of Rossville. It runs along Arthur Kill Road roughly between St. Luke's Avenue and Rossville Avenue. ~Jessica
Date: July 13, 2009 5:50:12 PM EDT
Subject: News from Oval Concierge
Reply-To: ovalconcierge@abigailmichaels.com
Dear Oval Concierge Member,
We hope you had a spectacular Independence Day! The pyrotechnics are a fantastic highlight to this great Summer holiday, but the heart of the matter lies in what this holiday is about, which is our nation's history. In this country, one would be hard-pressed to find a city more chock-full of beauty and history than our very own New York City. In a city where every block has its own story, the myriad threads of history that built this city can be hard to discern and, unfortunately, sometimes forgotten. For the month of July, your concierges have dug deep to find you original places and activities around the city that might just slip one's mind when looking to get one's historical fix. Give Coney Island and the Statue of Liberty a break for a change and bask in the small treasures this city has to offer. You might not have known they were even there! We hope you enjoy these exciting choices and, as always, do not hesitate to call or email us with any questions that you may have!
Warm Wishes,
THE OVAL CONCIERGE TEAM
BILL'S GAY NINETIES
57 East 54th Street
New York, NY 10022
212.355.0243
Take a step back in time and enjoy the history of Prohibition and the fun of the Roaring Twenties. Bill's restaurant and piano bar at 57 East 54th Street is an original speakeasy that has not changed since it first opened its doors in 1924. However, the location's history goes back to even before Prohibition. Before it became a speakeasy, it was a residence that was inhabited by three prominent families, one of which was the family of Clement C. Moore, who was the grandson of the Clement C. Moore that wrote "A visit from St. Nicholas." Bill's has three floors. The first floor is where the piano magic happens every Monday through Saturday and the third floor is reserved for private parties. ~ Shauntelle
McSORLEY'S OLD ALE HOUSE
15 East 7th Street
New York, NY 10003
212.474.9148
McSorley's Old Ale House, located in the East Village, has been a NYC institution since the Franklin Pierce or Abraham Lincoln Administrations (depending on whose story you believe). NYC historian Richard McDermott's research indicates it opened in 1862 and has witnessed everything from the 1863 Draft Riots to the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Inside, there are hundreds of pictures on the walls, which customers have brought them in through the decades. McSorley's serves only its house brew and the proper way to order is "dark" or "light." You pay $3.50 for two small mugs at the same time.
Monday - Saturday 11am to 1am
Sunday - 1pm to 1am
*Interesting fact: McSorley's famously did not admit female patrons until the summer of 1970. ~Sherri
STATEN ISLAND BOAT GRAVEYARD
Rossville, Staten Island
The Staten Island Boat Graveyard is off the shore of the fifth borough containing skeletons of decommissioned, scrapped, and abandoned ships of various sizes, ages, and states of ruin. Rather than sink the vessels elsewhere, the City of New York has chosen this sliver of water between the island and the coast of New Jersey as the final resting place for dozens of ships. The many boats sit half beneath the surface, silent sentinels to formerly productive seafaring lives.
Things are constantly changing here. New boats are brought in and old ones are chopped up or sunk into the muddy banks of the harbor. The beauty is in the untouched rust and rotting wood, where weather and salt water accelerates the rate of decay transforming these ships of the past into sculptures of steel rising from their watery grave. Needless to say, the atmospheric surroundings make for an incredible setting for both amateur and professional photographers. An examples of what you'll find includes the moldering wreckage of The Seawells Point, a ferry that ran between the Bronx and Riker's Island until a bridge was built in the late 1960's. The site is located in the Arthur Kill Channel near the town of Rossville. It runs along Arthur Kill Road roughly between St. Luke's Avenue and Rossville Avenue. ~Jessica
I do not live in PCVST. I have never lived in PCVST. I will never live in PCVST.
I have an IQ over 89. I know when to disassociate myself from those with an IQ of 79 at best.
Again. Don't live here and never did.
For the record.
P.S. In response to S.I. boatyard, etc. The humiliation is just too much.
This really belongs with Luxie's post of a few days ago. It seems as if giving away an apartment for a year is becoming a New York thing.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/business/media/15adco.html?ref=nyregion
It's good to hear from Manny again!
Another blogger who fell for Richard McDermott's scam about McSorley's!
Sum total of his "research" = He can't find it before 1862, so it must no exist.
John McSorley, (who, by the way was there) used the phrase "established in 1854" as early as 1904, in advertising.
McDermott is a shakedown artist (See the NY Times August 27, 1997) who could not extort money from McSorley's.
For a site that seems to have no bottom, you come pretty close to scraping it in this post.
To question somebody's intelligence by mocking their typos is simple snobbery.
To make assumptions about somebody because of their skin color (e.g., NYU kids are afraid of ethnicity) is racist.
To assume that "chubby" girls are interested only in Sarah Jessica Parker-approved spots to shop is sexist.
I quit Oval Concierge after my free trial period, just too much money to pay on top of rent to have somebody accept packages (that should be included, for crying out loud), but the people who worked there were always pleasant and professional, and not deserving of your infantile name-calling and put-downs.
And yes, yes, I know it's a parody, so don't be so literal-minded! But the contents and tone of your parody reveal your own bigotries, and serve no discernable purpose, other than to make you look like a mean-spirited btich.
God you are a bloody bore.
Give me a break. Tishman Speyer charges out the ass for their "Amenities" including Oval Concierge, yet they can't drop a dime and hire a copy writer? I would be fired ASAP if I turned in "writing" like the junk that comes out of OC.
And you are blind if you can't see how NYC is catering to the suburbanites that are flocking here thanks to the Disnified whitewashing that's going on. Quite frankly, THAT'S racist.
PS
You are just noticing that I am a mean spirited bitch NOW? Stop smoking the cabbage.
It's not him. Check your email.
Hey, Lux. I don't think that StuyTownRetorter is the same guy who writes the Stuytownreport blog. I think it is someone playing on the name. The Stuytownreport guy complains about the state of the grounds; he doesn't excuse them and it would be very unlike him to say something like that about the tire. There was someone who called himself Stuyvesant Town Supporter who started a blog which was dissing both LuxLiving and Stuytownreporter. He closed his site down. I suspect this is the same person. This would be the second time he has created a name that sounded very much like the Stuytown reporter blog, but his opinions are very much the opposite to yours and the reporter's.
Oh yeah, that's him.
I'm pretty sure it is. He wrote some stupid crap on the Stuytown Report blog and the real Stuytown Reporter called him on it. I think it's very low of him to deliberately take a name that is so similar to someone else's, especially when his views are the polar opposite. I guess that's his m.o. though to cause divisiveness and confusion.
He does deliberately choose names that are confusing at first glance and he's just pretty much another Nick. He'll be shamed off this blog, same as he was shamed off the other and he even got rid of his own blog. He's too stupid to know when to quit.
Meant to click reply to Beulah on my above post. Here's what's left of his stupid crap blog that he got rid of in shame after his idiotic posts on STR. Talk about stupid crap!
http://74.125.45.132/search?q=cache:fo7Yu-sdpLAJ:stuytownsupporter.blogspot.com/+stuy+town+supporter&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a
WOW! That's a crock of shit. Let's clear a few things up.
Neither I or the "old-timers" here have anything against market rate tenants. If anything, they have it worse because they are paying through the nose for the same bed bug, roach, and vermin infested apartments. I've actually made a few new friends through the site who are paying market rate rents.
Tishman Speyer is renting out a large number of apartments to NYU, The New School, and the Art Insitute of NY and some of those students live a very different lifestyle than the grown ups they have to cohabitate with. One of my pre-mentioned market rate friends is moving out of ST next month because he is tired of having his kid smell the pot smoke that wafts into his apartment from his NYU neighbors who smoke in the hall.
As documented both here and in Town & Village SOME the security staff at Stuyvesant Town have instigated physical fights with tenants and have made up fake rules about tenants' rights when it comes to taking photos in Stuyvesant Town. Is Nazi a bit much? Probably. But so is SOME of their rogue behaviour. When I DID live in ST I needed the assistance of security a few times and, with me, they were very helpful and professional which I have also shared on the site in comments I've written.
"Tishman Speyer PR people are “prison inmates with a sixth grade education at best.”" Actually, I said something similar about the people at Oval Concierge who continually send out typo filled emails with the exuberance of a six year old to their clients as documented on Lux Living. If they have such little attention to detail with regards to their own image, I can only imagine how they handle the details of reservations, appointments and parties they apparently take care of for their customers.
I question why this person would go through the trouble of starting a blog, writing a few posts, then close it down. Way to stand by your opinions!
The mentality you're dealing with here is some creep who "outgrew" a one-bedroom apartment he shared with his fiance and 2 teenage sons when he realized he could get a $500 gift card by moving here. What a caring father and what a smart ex-wife.
And I suppose you think it's easy being a bitch!
Bitch
You're right, wouldn't want to cause divisiveness! Or be thought a bloody bore, a stupid creep, a moron, or an uncaring father by such obviously caring neighbors who are sniff out IPs, then accuse me of being Nick (?), Beulah (?), or a printer (?). It's not that I'm too stupid not to know when to quit, it's that I'm too stupid to have even started in the first place. I'll leave you to your lovefest, and, it's true, I'm ashamed that I even stopped by here, albeit briefly.
FOR SOMEONE WHO WORKS AT A PUBLISHING HOUSE YOU SURE SEEM TO SUCK AT IT PERHAPS ITS TIME TO QUIT YOUR DAY JOB AND FINISH GETTING YOU BACHELORS DEGREE IN BEING A PUSSY.
Incredible that Stuy Town Reporter not only left the horrific anti-freeze dog poisoning suggestion up on his site, but attacked the posters who rightly criticized idea!! But no big surprise considering the source. Remember he's the same jerk who posted misinformation on LL that claims recycling is pointless and a waste of time, which was immediately debunked as nonsense.
It's not Reporter. It's Retorter. I think 447 Hell is right.
ANTIFREEZE IS WHAT MY YOUNG ROB GIVES TO HIS ANN CECILE BEFORE THEY HAVE SEX HE LIKES THE GIRLS REALLY STILL
Oh, so that clears up the mystery why your son insists on adding antifreeze to the goat feed!
WHY DO YOU THINK I ENCOURAGED HIM TO MARRY THE ANNE CECILE? I WAS TIRED OF TRIPPING OVER DEAD GOATS ON MY WAY TO THE BATHROOM IN MY TOWN HOUSE. NOW HE IS HER PROBLEM.