1211 Avenue of the Americas
Lawyer for 1211 Avenue of the Americas Bedbug Plaintiff: 'It Comes From Foreigners'
The lawyer for a bedbug-bitten Fox News employee suing the landlord and maintenance company of 1211 Avenue of the Americas today blamed his client's condition on foreign visitors to New York.
“My position is that it comes from foreigners,” Mr. Schnurman told The Observer. “Because it became so inexpensive for foreigners to travel here, I believe they brought it into our hotel system.”
His client, Joan Clark, claims in her lawsuit in New York Supreme Court that she's “suffering from emotional distress” from the bedbug attacks inside the News Corp. headquarters at 1211 Avenue of the Americas, which is owned by Beacon Capital Partners. read more »
Wall Street Journal To Bunk with New York Post by Spring '09
Say goodbye to the Financial District, suckers!
The Media Mob's John Koblin links to a PaidContent report that Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones staffers will be working out of News Corp.'s Midtown headquarters at 1211 Avenue of the Americas by spring of 2009: read more »
The Journal at the News Corp. Castle! Opening Winter 2009
The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones are less than a year away from moving their editorial departments to midtown. Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton said that the whole thing is pretty "fluid" but it's likely that the Journal--and the Dow Jones news wires--will pack their bags for the News. Corp castle at 1211 Avenue of the Americas by February or March of next year. read more »
Broken Chairs, Telephone Books, a Shrine to Dan Colarusso and More at Post's Newsroom at 1211
The veteran reporter that we talked to yesterday had more to say about the conditions in the Post newsroom than we could handle! Here's our source's entire description of life on the 10th read more »
Explosion at News Corp Headquarters
One person was injured in an explosion at the News Corp. headquarters on Sixth Avenue this morning, a fire department spokesman told Media Mob.
There was a chemical explosion in a 45th floor mechancial room, according to the spokesman. He said that the first call came in at 10:39am. Floors 42 through 45 have been evacuated from the building, and there are 12 units and more than 50 firefighters at the scene. The one person injured is not considered to have life-threatening injuries, the spokesman said. read more »
