[wagglebee]

It should be rats, but this is still fitting.

[mewzilla]

On a rodent-related note...

Health Commissioner: Rats Are Not A Health Risk

Run, Bloomie, run!

[MizSterious]

LOL—I was just wondering how the mice were getting along with the ‘Rats....

[Man50D]

I thought the NY Times was run by mice?

[null and void]

[Calvin Locke]

I wonder if it was the reporter, editor, or publisher that declined to report accurately?

I just got done reading a book about the ISS. In the continuous comparisons on how the US v Russia/USSR dealt with problems, the Russian equivalent of "Mission Control" was once over run by rodents (mice or rats). They brought in cats to solve the problem.

[The Cuban]

It is an exceptionally ugly and banal building, that has ruined the skyline. Fitting.

[Cicero]

‘Times’ to Commoners: Go Elsewhere

Don’t soil our publicly subsidized new HQ with your riff-raff

by Paul Moses [Village Voice]
August 16th, 2005 10:29 AM

When The New York Times and Forest City Ratner Companies open their grand new office building on Eighth Avenue, it won’t have a Taco Bell, McDonald’s, Wendy’s, or Nathan’s, because they are specifically forbidden under terms of a land deal with the state. But a Starbucks or Cosi would be just fine.

The lease, which is on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission, also bars renting space in the 52-story building for “a school or classroom or juvenile or adult day care or drop-in center.” It forbids “medical uses, including without limitation, hospital, medical, or dental offices, agencies, or clinics.” It gives the New York Times Company “the sole and absolute discretion” to reject United Nations or foreign-government offices, including any “considered controversial” or that are potentially the focus of demonstrations. It bans any “employment agency (other than executive-search firms) or job training center” and auction houses, “provided, however, the foregoing shall not apply to high-end auction houses specializing in art and historical artifacts.” Discount stores are forbidden. And the deal bars “a welfare or social-services office, homeless shelter or homeless assistance center, court or court-related facility.”

In fact, any government office is excluded from the building if it would attract people who arrive “without appointment.”

Lease restrictions that exclude the public may not be unusual in luxury office buildings, but there is an irony in this case. The Pataki administration, acting on behalf of the New York Times Company, condemned the property for a so-called “public purpose.” This is the standard the Fifth Amendment sets for the state to invoke the immense power of eminent domain.

More:

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0533,moses,66887,5.html

[Eric A. Blair]

Meet the new tenants; same as the old tenants.

[attackcartoons]

i vaguely remember something about the times trying to use 9/11 relief funds to build their new offices. anybody know what became of that story?

[Petronski]

Perhaps Pinch and his gay mafia would do better to think of them as gerbils.

[LibLieSlayer]

Poor mice... around all the RATS that work there! I pity the mice.

LLS

[Beckwith]

Pinch Sulberger is the head rat at the Times.

Derogatorily known as "Pinch", Sulzberger was a long-haired, 1960s radical and as an anti-war activist he had been vehemently opposed to the Vietnam War. He was arrested more than once at protest rallies and famously declared that in a confrontation between an American and a North Vietnamese soldier he'd want to see the American get shot. His own father, "Punch," who was then the Times' publisher, considered his son's words treasonous.

[Navy Patriot]

Executive Editor Bill Keller's third-floor office once had a leak following a rainstorm but Keller played it down. "It dripped for about an hour," he said.

I don't understand, I thought there was always a drip in Keller's office.

[bert]

How about “what do you get when you starve liberal Rats?”

You get mice

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

"He's not a mouse, he's Hitler with a tail!" - Pinch Sulzberger.