You’re probably still debating over whether New York or Philadelphia has hotter girls (vote here), but there is a baseball series going on between both cities, you know? We kid. Of course you know. That’s not to say that you’ve been watching all the games though, no matter how sports savvy you try to act around your friends. In case you missed out, Jay-Z and Alicia Keys opened up Game 2 of the World Series last night with their NYC anthem, “Empire State Of Mind.” The boys in blue might wanna get Hov on the bill for all their games, because they walked away with the win. Watch the performance above.
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Note to CC: Sometimes Yankee pinstripes feel like prison bars.
If you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere. If you can’t, you’re just a c-suckin’ sonovabitch. Star pitcher CC Sabathia, who just signed with the Yankees for seven years and $161 million, will soon find out if he can deal with the stress of hurling in the Big Apple. A fat, fun-loving California dude, he wanted to sign with a National League team in the Golden State, where life and baseball are sunny, but he took the Evil Empire’s money and now he’ll have to contend with cold weather, frigid fans, high expectations, over-involved owners and media that gets up in that ass more than a prison sugar daddy.
We’ll have to wait and see if Bronx Bummers boo the smile off his face, but in the meantime, check out six players who signed with the Yanks for big money as free agents and found out they were definitely not built for New York…
It’s the first rule of the paparazzi: there’s nothing wrong with violating the privacy of the rich and famous'in fact, they expect it. Over at Flickr, a photographer named jwilly put up a bunch of Big Apple pics entitled “nyc-travails.” One of his latest is “Rich People Rooftops NYC” and it features…you guessed it, photos of some of the dopest rooftop spaces in the city.
Posted up on surrounding buildings (either that or bopping around town with his jet pack), jwilly examines the supposedly hidden living space of the upper crust. Our only regret is that there are no pics of gazillionaire housewives sunbathing topless. See a gallery of his best flicks below, including the penthouse of the Soho Grand.
Trash on the streets of New York City? No, not since Giuliani, right?! Sorry Virginia, but even though there is a Santa Claus and a Disney Store in Times Square and you can now go to Alphabet City without getting jumped for your BK Knights, the Big Apple still has a pretty severe litter problem. But now it seems one anonymous street artist is doing something to bring Gothamites’ attention to it.
Yesterday, a series of seven display cases appeared near the Complex offices, attached by cables to trees on 23rd Street just west of 6th Avenue. Inside the cases are various pieces of NYC detritus: bottle caps, parking receipts, guitar picks, matchbooks, pigeon feathers, green Tic Tacs, pens, and the filters from Black N Milds, among other objects. At the bottom of each frame is the simple caption: “THE ITEMS DISPLAYED IN THIS BOX WERE COLLECTED FROM THE TREE WELL BELOW ON JULY 11TH AND 25TH, 2008.” And of course, this being New York, two of the cases had been ripped off by this afternoon. See close-up images of the five remaining cases below.
The rampant drugs and violence that deemed New York shitty in the '80s, reigns today in the tongue-in-cheek titled, It's All Good. Shot in some of the city's most notorious 'hoods, Serbian-born photographer Boogie admits in his new book, “This is the only reality I see.” And it bites.
Photo by Boogie
It’s All Good is now available through Powerhouse Books
