While the other Inn, the Beatrice, faces an uncertain future, and Graydon Carter is getting ready to open his approachable Monkey Bar, his Waverly Inn restaurant sounds easier to get into than Marc Jacobs' pants.

If the Beatrice Inn were to close forever, rather than just temporarily, what would we say at its funeral? Because we're feeling wistful this afternoon, we're going to attempt something of a eulogy.

Low-ceiling'd smokehut the Beatrice Inn, a hip downtown bar frequented by society types and New York celebrities alike, has been padlocked. Some say it's because of all the druggery and smoking, others because of overcrowding.

Facebook will be so over one of these days, and Vanessa Grigoriadis, New York's scribe of the self, is ready to quit. She's totally done with Mark Zuckerberg's creation. Just one more status update, promise!

[A very gray New York street scene, from Holly Northrup Flickr]

American buying culture is still alive and well! If the hullabaloo over a new store is any indication. Britain's popular Topshop chain has finally come to New York. Today in Soho, there was much rejoicing.

[New, high cigarette taxes became effective in New York today, as some of us are well aware. So, here's a picture from 1949: simpler, cheaper, and probably, less healthy times. Image: LIFE © Time Inc.]

Your favorite football series returns, Drew Barrymore's dating Justin Long again, NYC film gets a tax break, plus movies about babysitters and killer crazy girls.

Wispily pompadoured Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter's new midtown venture Monkey Bar is a bar/restaurant for rich people. There's even a giant mural commemorating some of between-wars New York's bestest richies. So who's in it?

David Paterson: no one likes him anymore, though he's still better than the last, like, 10 governors. We only like him more after reading his insane love letter to his disgraced former aide.

Do you want to listen to six minutes worth of proof that journalism sucks? Here is the executive director of a Republican PAC yelling at some poor, polite reporter in Albany.

Another rude restaurant-goer! The pretty woman is in town shilling her new movie, and was evidently not the most gracious of restaurant guests while having dinner in the West Village last night.

[Yesterday's sunset seen from the Empire State Building; image via Pr3liator's Flickr. Click for larger.]

[Sarah Jessica Parker in the West Village; image via Splash]

The US lost 2 million jobs in the last three months. Unemployment hasn't been this high since 1983. So aren't you worried about how this is affecting New York marriages? A certain magazine is!

Just in time for New York to revert back to the mean streets of old, the blockbustery film Watchmen comes out offering us a reimagined 1985 cityscape. How does it compare to the real thing?

[Bloomberg, Bono, The Edge, and the gang watch as a section of West 53rd St. in Manhattan is temporarily renamed U2 Way; image via Getty]

There was a big snow storm in the Northeast today! But more importantly, there was a big snowstorm in New York today! Take a look at a gallery of the wonderland after the jump.

Traffic putters up Broadway into Times Square in 1954. Soon that famous traffic will be no more, as the stretch of Broadway between 42nd and 47th streets is set to become a pedestrian walkway.

[New York City's lights are dimmed in 1943, to cut the city's energy costs during World War II. A strategy we could perhaps employ in these troubled economic times? Image: LIFE © Time Inc.]