Cityfile: New York's Most Notable and Influential

The downside (and upside!) to a Yankees World Series victory.

Someone has come up with a brilliant way to recycle NYC's remaining supply of pay phones (the ones you haven't touched since around around '99) and make the city prettier at the same time. Finally! [Blade Diary via AnimalNY]

Attack of the Blondes: Taylor Momsen, Lindsay Lohan, and Donatella Versace at the Whitney Museum of American Art annual gala last night.

Just Like Dave [Quite All Right]

A few more photos from the first day of Fashion Week are below.
 More

Are local real estate developers now privy to classified CIA briefings? "This building under construction is forecasting a major military conflict in the near future," observes law professor Adam Kolber. [PrawfsBlawg]

Meet Me Here [Urban Prankster]

Anderson Cooper worked out earlier this afternoon at the flashy new David Barton Gym on Astor Place. Things headed downhill, however, when he walked out of the gym with a guy who appeared to be his trainer. You can view Andy's rainy day ordeal, in four acts, by clicking on the photo above.  

Dash Snow: The Memorial | The folks at Curbed bring word that a makeshift memorial has appeared outside the LES studio of Dash Snow, the downtown artist who died of an overdose earlier this week. But be warned! "Given the materials he was known to work with, we wouldn't get too close to this tribute." [Curbed]

Wass Stevens, New York's most prominent club doorman, was arrested yesterday after he (allegedly!) beat a college kid with the metal end of a velvet rope after he tried to get into Avenue, but became "belligerent" when Stevens denied him entry. It looks like Stevens' crime wave continues. A friend of Cityfile just sent us this photo of the nightlife fixture sitting on his motorcycle and chatting on his cell on the corner of Broadway and Astor. "I'm pretty sure it's a traffic violation to park on the sidewalk like that," she writes. "He's right in front of a police van, too." If you had doubts that Wass had balls of steel, well, consider the matter settled. Further evidence of his criminal tendencies below. More

Madoff: The Scene Outside | The victims of Bernie Madoff reacted in different ways to the news he'd been sentenced to 150 years in prison. Burt Ross, the former mayor of Ft. Lee, New Jersey who lost $5 million to the Ponzi scheme (and who covered today's sentencing for The Daily Beast), celebrated by planting a kiss on his wife in front of the hundreds of reporters gathered. Other people assembled outside the courthouse with giant placards or strange looking figurines. A few photos of the zany scene outside the courthouse after the jump. More

Hillary Clinton broke her elbow last Wednesday at the State Department and underwent surgery on Friday. Today she canceled plans to travel to Italy and Greece for a series of meetings on Iran and the Middle East since she's still recovering from surgery. Clinton's injury, however, didn't stop her from putting on a brave face and appearing at the White House today for meetings with President Obama. Nor, it seems, did it stop the president's official photographer from snapping photos of the injured secretary of state and uploading them to Flickr either. [White House@Flickr, Washington Post]

A few more photos from last night's CFDA Awards after the jump.More

Poor Herb Allen. You spend your entire career serving as trusted advisor and investment banker to old media titans like Rupert Murdoch, Barry Diller, Dick Parsons, Bob Iger, Jeff Zucker, Gerry Laybourne, Paul Allen, and Oprah, and then a party-promoting new media group mixes you up with the guy who founded CourtTV? Oh, kids! [Gawker, NYO, The Deal, Flickr]

Most people were pretty pleased when Andre Balazs's Standard hotel opened in the meatpacking district late last year. One person who reportedly wasn't: designer Diane von Furstenberg, who, it's said, was a little miffed that hotel guests would now be able to look out of their windows and down into her glassy penthouse apartment atop the DVF store around the corner. Balazs downplayed any reports of tension. (They'd "share views of each other," the hotelier explained.) But we can now see why she may not have been so thrilled by her new neighbor. Judging by these hi-res photos taken by a random hotel guest who uploaded them to Flickr—and didn't know what he was taking pictures of—the view isn't half bad.