Errata Newyorkiana II?
The puzzle: Monday's New York Sun.
The answer: ED KOCH.
The clue: '80s Gracie Mansion Resident.
Is it true? The story goes this way: as with Bloomberg, Koch never occupied the mayor's residence, but for the opposite reason. He didn't want to risk losing his rent-controlled studio on Washington Square.
Anyone?
The answer: ED KOCH.
The clue: '80s Gracie Mansion Resident.
Is it true? The story goes this way: as with Bloomberg, Koch never occupied the mayor's residence, but for the opposite reason. He didn't want to risk losing his rent-controlled studio on Washington Square.
Anyone?
posted by DO at 8:33 PM
7 Comments:
According to an 8/18/80 article in Time: At first [Koch] even refused to live in the mayoral residence, Gracie Mansion, a large colonial house overlooking the East River; Koch now grudgingly spends most week nights there for convenience.
On weekends he heads for his bachelor pad in Greenwich Village—a one-bedroom apartment near Washington Square Park....Koch has had the rent-controlled apartment since the earlier '60s and now pays only $257 a month, a steal by any New York standards.
http://time-proxy.yaga.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,948930,00.html
A new puzzle
http://www.google.com/search?&q=newyorkianum
dean, "iana" isn't a comprehensible suffix. give it up. GIVE IT UP!
dean, i apologize
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-iana
You should not be apologizing for contributing a spark of activity to a blog where even a tumbleweed that could catch fire hasn't been seen in 48 hours. Nor should you be apologizing when all your wiktionary link shows is a reference to nouns ending in -iana.
This is what I was puzzling over. If you were to number your entries and insist on the concept of things Newyorkiana (other than "stuff"), I personally think you would call them "Erratum Newyorkianum II," etc. What do *I* know. But you will notice that DO himself is not sure, and asked us.
Lastly, I don't think Marvin Gaye would apologize for this:
I used to go out to parties
And stand around
'Cause I was too nervous
To really get down
And my body yearned to be free
So I got up on the floor and found
Someone to choose me
No more standin' along the side walls
Now I've got myself together, baby
And I'm havin' a ball
Long as you prove it
There's always a chance
Somebody watches
I'm gonna make romance
With your body, ooo baby, you dance all night
Get down and prove it, feel all right
(repeat and fade):
Keep on dancin'
Got to give it up
I don't know what all of it means, but I'm pretty sure it's intended as flattering and positive. Dean, give it up!
I'll let you work this out between the two of you!
I have kind of an odd incident to verify his living there. I was creating an illustrated poster for the Charter Revision Commission back when Koch was mayor. The drawing was a citylike flow chart, and I chose Gracie Mansion to represent the mayor. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any pictures showing all the parts of the building I needed, so I got permission to go up there and make some sketches. When I was done, I was given a tour inside but had to be quickly hustled out when Mayor Koch's arrival for the night was imminent. The secretary explained, "He doesn't like coming home to strangers." -Patrick Merrell
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