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Virtual UES Launches In Second Life

The Upper East Side has gotten its birth in virtual world Second Life as a compliment to CW's Gossip Girl. According to Millions Of Us, the company behind the fake world creation, the UES space will be open for exploration through the end of the week "at which point we will start a very interesting social game that will take place in the city."  No further details are given, but the Second Life area is already rubbing people the wrong way, like this guy, who has the best 'about' photo I think I've ever seen -- including full-on wink and avatar shot.

The UES Second Life area seems to include only the following blocks: 59th to 64th, from Fifth Avenue to Park Ave.  A shot can be seen here.

Welcome!

September is here and with the new month: we present our new website.

I wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who’s been reading 78thand2nd over the past three months.  In August we saw a traffic tally that was 10 times that of June and we appreciate everyone who has dropped by, emailed in, commented and tipped us to neighborhood happenings.  It’s been a true pleasure to this point and I hope to hear from you all moving forward.

As for the new site, the biggest change is that we now have some ads, something we couldn’t do on a Wordpress blog.  The content of the site will stay the same, but we have a slightly different look, a result of exiting from Wordpress.

We’ll be tweaking the new site in the coming days: fixing broken links, categories, adding a search function, features, and dealing with the typical growing pains of moving to a new server.

For those changing bookmarks – the url 78thand2nd.com will point to the new site in a day or two. 

Again, thank you to everyone who’s visited over the past three months – I look forward to the coming ones!

Thanks,

Chris

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