If the city of Los Angeles hadn't already earned its insufferability wings, it's about to! Curbed reports that the West Hollywood city council has approved plans for a West Coast Soho House outpost, and the neighbors are not pleased. [Curbed]

Miss Heather has uncovered what has to be the strangest construction project in Greenpoint: At 211 Huron Street, we're looking at an auto body shop on the first floor, apartments on floors 2-5 and a swimming pool on the roof! The permits expired in April, but that hasn't stopped the workers from doing their thing. And in a nice touch aimed at the future squatters that will one day inhabit this site, a homey door has been installed on the construction plywood. Nice touch! [New York Shitty]

Careful what you Twitter! Blogger Ben Leventhal savaged Julia Allison for a brainless tweet. George Stephanopoulos denied inhaling at a White House dinner. And Kurt Andersen just shouldn't have typed anything. Today's 140-character mistakes:

"The State Department of Health says it is leaning toward approving Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers’ controversial plan to build an $835 million new hospital in Greenwich Village. An endorsement by health officials may help St. Vincent's scale a bigger hurdle: getting approval from the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission." [Crain's; previously]

Well, look at that! The real estate trade site Curbed.com seems to have come with a quasi-accurate list/map of notable New Yorkers and where they've moved recently. Wonder where they got that idea! But, naturally, we're happy to have been of service.

At a new condo in the East Village in NYC, a volatile mix of summer weather, a rooftop pool, gays, hipsters, and wealthy young hedge fund yuppies conspired to form a party that resulted, predictably, in drinking, drugs, debauchery, and defecation. Disasters of this type never happened when all members of various disparate cultural groups stayed neatly separated from each other, in neighborhoods segmented by class, wealth, race, and sexual preference. A Curbed tipster gives a brief glimpse into this dangerous world in which ubiquitous money obliterates traditional social boundaries and brings together GayHipYups in search of intoxication:

Down by the Hipster blogger Scott Solish (formerly of Curbed, which owns Eater), who blogged anonymously until Eater's Ben Leventhal outed him yesterday, explains to Grub Street why he was exposed. "This is an act of a real 2-year-old." [Grub Street]

Perhaps you've been following the story of the so-called Batcave, the abandoned building at Third Ave. and Third St. in Brooklyn, right by the Gowanus Canal and across from the to-be-built (once those pollution issues get settled) Whole Foods, where teenaged squatters had been living until the Daily News shined an unwelcome spotlight on them? Well, it turns out that squatters—bless their tattooed hearts—also know how to get online, and they're none too pleased at how they're being portrayed, no sirree.

Chronicle fronts a puff piece about Oracle OpenWorld in the Technology section. To handle the expected 42,000 attendee, Howard Street has been closed off just for concession stands. Philip Ferrato over at Curbed has this to say,