The Afternoon Wrap: ThursdayEvery ritzy ritz·yadj. ritz·i·er, ritz·i·est Informal Elegant; fancy. [After the Ritz hotels, established by César Ritz (1850-1918), Swiss hotelier. Manhattan neighborhood deserves its own place for ogling expensive, shiny MP3 players. The third Manhattan Apple flagship (out of five) will open at a 52,000-square-foot monster on West 14th Street, thus making the Meatpacking meatpacking or meat-processing, wholesale business of buying and slaughtering animals and then processing and distributing their carcasses to retailers. The livestock industry is among the largest in the world. District a tiny bit less hateful. [Apple Insider, via Gawker gawk n. An awkward, loutish person; an oaf. intr.v. gawked, gawk·ing, gawks To stare or gape stupidly. See Synonyms at gaze. ] The mysterious-sounding Center For an Urban Future predicts Staten Island Staten Island (1990 pop. 378,977), 59 sq mi (160 sq km), SE N.Y., in New York Bay, SW of Manhattan, forming Richmond co. of New York state and the borough of Staten Island of New York City. will suffer "an economic decline and a significant deterioration in its quality of life." Surely, Staten Island-born rap group Noun 1. rap group - a gathering of people holding a rap session assemblage, gathering - a group of persons together in one place Wu Tang Clan does not want their old borough to become a “lower-middle-class retirement community.” [N.Y. Mag/D.I.] Ivanka Trump, Manhattan’s most aesthetically pleasing real-estate mogul, says she has “thirty-three projects under my direct control.” Plus, in an interview accompanying her very stirring new GQ pictorial, she uses the words “cocky” and “shit.” Wowzah! [GQ] 
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