Word: manhattanization
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...space has been added than the market can absorb. More than 500 new malls have been built since 2002 and at least 100 more are expected to open this year, adding a total of about 320 million sq. ft. (30 million sq m) of new retail space-16 times Manhattan's total. "It's a huge supply in any market," says Morgan Parker, the Hong Kong-based president of Taubman Asia, a subsidiary of U.S. real estate developer Taubman Centers...
...currently a Sprint customer nor am I thrilled with my phone service - the canyons of Manhattan are filled with dead spots - but if I were going to be canned by Sprint, here's what I'd envision. They'd call my number and get my Automated Saporito Annulation Program (ASAP). "Please listen carefully," my voice would say mechanically, "not that you ever did, but my menu has changed so I can annoy you just the way you have annoyed me. Press 1 if you'd like to continue in a language that I can't speak; Press...
...many cases, women who choose the single life have looked at those around them and vowed not to make their mistakes. "My mother married her first boyfriend. All my relatives stayed in marriages that are really tough," says Pam Henneberry, 31, an accountant who lives in Manhattan. "When I looked at the unhappiness that was in my parents' marriage, I said, 'I can't do that.'" If Cynthia Rowe, 43, a Los Angeles-area store manager and divorce, gets depressed, she thinks of her five closest girlfriends. "They are all just existing in their marriages," she says. "Two of them...
...quibbling already, I'm getting ahead of myself. I acquired my iPhone shortly after 6:00 on launch day at the Apple store in midtown Manhattan, a subterranean emporium located underneath the plaza in front of FAO Schwartz and accessible through a crystal portal leading to a spiral staircase, befitting the fairy-tale mood. The crowd was astounding, hundreds of people (granted, many of them were TV crews) gawking and yelling and cheering the first customers to emerge with their iPhones. In a way it's disturbing to watch America fall in love with a piece of technology again...
Meanwhile, friends in other places sent long e-mails about their culinary adventures in Manhattan and abroad: the French bakeries, the exotic cheeses, the alcohol...