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Veteran punk rocker Jello Biafra didn’t trash his hotel room during a recent trip to New York. It was already trashed.
“The air-conditioners are so old and beat up, I figure why waste electrical power during an energy crunch when I can just take off all my clothes and work nude?” quipped Mr. Biafra, the 50-year-old former lead singer of the irreverent Reagan-era rock band the Dead Kennedys and a onetime fringe presidential candidate. “I come from cold, foggy San Francisco, so I like it when the heat is sweltering. It’s a nice treat to work nude.”
He was staying at the historic Hotel Pennsylvania, a veritable musical landmark befitting the songwriter responsible for the satirical travel anthem “Holiday in Cambodia. read more »
Law Firm Wants One-Third of Port Authority Bus Terminal Tower
High-octane law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison is in negotiations with Vornado Realty Trust to occupy space in the skyscraper that the real estate giant plans to build on top of the Port Authority Bus Terminal.
A source close to the negotiations said that the law firm, which now occupies 400,000 square feet at 1285 Avenue of the Americas, wants to take 500,000 square feet in the tower, which isn't expected to be complete until 2012.
More on this in Wednesday's paper.
Ray Kelly to Steve Roth, James Dolan: Put Up That Wall!
WNBC.com got hold of a March 25 letter from Police Commissioner Ray Kelly to Madison Square Garden Chairman James Dolan, Vornado Realty chief executive Steve Roth, and the heads of the M.T.A. and Amtrak, faulting the parties for holding up the installation of a security perimeter around Penn Station to protect what he called “the single most critical transit hub in the United States” from terrorist attacks. read more »
