Gansevoort News

We think our love for delay-watching Thompson Hotels is quite clear, what with all the fodder we have from other debacles Six Columbus and Allen Street.

WILTON - Persis Ann Manson, 78, of Hopeful Lane, died Tuesday, July 01, 2008, at her home following a long illness.
Born on June 4, 1930, in Orono, Maine, she was the daughter of Percy E. and Melrose E. (Paul) King.
A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. Monday, July 7, at the Adirondack Christian Fellowship, 8 Mountain Ledge Drive, Wilton, with the Rev. Richard Cohen officiating.

The Wilton Heritage Society will meet on Wednesday at the Heritage Meeting House on Parkhurst Road. A potluck supper will be held at 6 p.m., followed by the meeting at 6:30 p.m. Pat Peck will present a program on genealogy.

This time, he wore slacks and a white oxford.

Calvin Morett, the 19-year-old who appeared on stage in an inflatable penis costume during Saratoga Springs High School’s commencement on Thursday, appeared in City Court today to answer a disorderly conduct charge.

During the brief hearing, Morett said he understood the charges against him but did not enter a plea. He will instead apply for a public defender and return to City Court on July 15.

Morett is a 2007 graduate of the school who lives with his parents in Wilton.

After running across the stage in the outfit at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, he was arrested and taken into custody by Saratoga Springs police.

Coming from a small school didn't keep Hamel from D-I soccer fields. Ashley Hamel of Scuylerville has continued her soccer career into the summer with the Adirondack Lynx.

Trucks are parked at Scotty's Restaurant in Gansevoort, N.Y., Thursday, June 5, 2008.

Thirteen-year-old Rebecca Simmons curls up in a chair at her family's Gansevoort home on May 27.

But cross firewood off the list, because when you build that roaring fire come nightfall, environmental experts want to ensure you’re not carting in kindling from your own backyard in which all kind of creepy crawlies may be lurking.

The long weekend is the time when the state Department of Environmental Conservation began publicizing its “Don’t Move Firewood” campaign to prevent the spread of potentially tree-killing pests

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At Moreau Lake State Park in Gansevoort, located on picturesque property filled with hardwood trees, campers were filling burlap bags from a shanty full of dried pine and other logs from inside the park grounds. But most were doing it out of convenience, unaware of the state recommendations that backyard wood be left at home.

“It’s easier to buy it here at a good price than haul it in,” Charles Clothier of Saratoga Springs said Sunday. “This is all for a campfire; you don’t want to cook over pine because it affects the food flavor.”

“It’s not worth the effort to bring it in,” Lafar said. “But you do hear about ticks and wood disease being everywhere. Why risk it?”

The Capital Region's restaurant scene can be a marvel or a minefield, its meals the source of ecstasy or exasperation.Check out Susan Arbetter’s post about being asked to vacate a restaurant table. They were at Max London’s in Saratoga Springs, a trendy place, and they’d occupied the table for 2½ hours. If their dinner was this past weekend, when Skidmore College was holding its graduation, the Spa City would have been swarming with people looking to spend money on dinner. This is a tough issue. From the diners’ perspective, they’re paying hundreds of dollars and should be able to proceed at whatever pace they like. From the restaurant’s point of view, allowing diner to dawdle as long as they wish means essentially giving up the hundreds of dollars the next party of four would have spent. From Susan’s description, it sounds like the staff at Max London’s was as polite as possible, and Susan’s group was offered a round of drinks in the bar to give up their table. The only other thing the restaurant should have done — and it may have — is let the party know in advance, preferably when making the reservation, that there was a time limit. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to ask a group to give up their table after 2½ hours. If you know you’re going to want to linger longer, it’s best to make that request when calling for a reservation.

A convoy of trucks rolled down the Northway in Saratoga County Thursday afternoon in protest of high gas prices. The convoy traveled from Northway Exit 17 to Exit 16, followed by a rally attended by state and local lawmakers at the Wilton Truck Plaza.

It's been described as a New York institution, a funky 24-hour French diner with the cachet to draw celebrities, local hedonists as well as intellectuals.

New York's Senate has approved Mayor Michael Bloomberg's plan to haul away the city's trash by barge and rail instead of trucks.

FOR a young woman just under 21, there are a couple ways around that whole legal drinking age thing.

“We have a very clear vision and my vision is to be happy. I love simple ideas.”

MIAMI Marcello Serpa of Omnicom Group's AlmapBBDO in Sao Paulo, Brazil, last night was honored with the 2008 Clio Lifetime Achievement Award at a gala dinner at the Gansevoort South Hotel in South Beach, Fla. via Adweek

Borough Park: An indictment has been handed to the landlord who, in 2002, planted a bomb on a tenant who owed him $100,000. The bomb went off, the tenant lost a leg, and the landlord faces ten years in prison. via New York Magazine

It was more like bowling for dollars here at Lucky Strike, when Claire Danes and her crew took over on Saturday night. via WSVN-TV Miami Beach

Anybody who lays claim to a pulse, some cash and a functioning liver has likely been to 230 Fifth , Red Sky , and Plunge at the Gansevoort Hotel , but those aren't the only open-air options where you can drink ... via Clubplanet

Actually, that's a lie. We're always thinking about the High Line, but it was only now that the good people at the Park Department and Friends of the High Line let us up on the rails to get a closer look at ... via Curbed

I'm wandering through Los Angeles airport. I'm supposed to fly to New York, but the reason why has escaped me. via Automotive

“I did it because I thought they'd give us Google stock. They didn't.”

Marc Ecko, being techy and adorable. Photo: Lauren Salazar If you walk by the corner of Gansevoort and Little West 12th this weekend and you seeing strobing neon lights, don't worry - you didn't get meat-market ... via New York Magazine