We could live with a compromise...

...Many New Yorkers aren't quite over the fact Macy's has blown up their fireworks show every year since 2009 on the Hudson River and want back what they call their birthright (OK, maybe not birthright). Agitators NY State Senator Daniel Squadron and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio are hot and heavy after Macy's to move the fireworks back to the East River where only New Yorkers can see them. They actually have a petition (which we feel no obligation to link to) to get the Macy's Fireworks moved back exclusively to the East River site.

When someone asked if alternating between the two sites would be acceptable they said only "That'd be better than what we've got now."

Johnny could get behind an alternating schedule. It certainly wouldn't be the worst thing. It would allow New Yorkers, so put upon, to feel extra special like they deep down know they are once every two years. Then the rest of us *rabble would get our shot in the off years.

*Rabble -- The Hoboken waterfront on July 4

The mate was a mighty sailing man, the skipper brave and sure...

No it wasn't the SS Minnow but a party boat did pretty much take a puke Monday night in the middle of the East River. Passengers had to wait out a three hour delay before the 'Fiesta En Barco 3' departed and seemingly things were going well until it went under the Williamsburg Bridge when the power and lights went out.

Everyone maintained calm, nobody tried to jump ship and swim to shore and the Green Goblin didn't try sinking the ship.

Unrelated video (but darned funny and so well scored)

Johnny's in negotiations to BUY the Chrysler Building and may move the Jersey City Desk offices there

Now, these negotiations can be tricky things, especially when we are dealing in thousands of dollars but here is the story, it now can be told.

Tishman Speyer Properties owns (or did) the Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, a slice of middle class life on Manhattan island. Well a while back, Tishman Speyer Properties bought Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village at a record price when the real estate market was HIGH. Then as we all know the markets tanked, the real estate industry went belly up and the Tishman Speyer Properties plan to raise rents in the property units ran into NYC rent control laws. Try as they might, Tishman Speyer couldn't come up with the do-re-mi and had to return the Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village to creditors.

This is where Johnny smells an opportunity. Since Tishman Speyer Properties is having money woes, AND they own the iconic Chrysler Building, Johnny is going to try to help Tishman Speyer Properties with their cash flow. Johnny has tendered an offer for the Chrysler Building for $2500.00 US dollars, that's right, twenty five hundred dollars. Now the attorneys have to do their thing but if it all works out, Johnny will own the Chrysler Building and trust him when he says this, there's gonna be one helluva party the day he gets the keys.

No Starvin' Marvin that's Johnny's Chrysler Building