The New York Sports Express (a relatively new subsidiary of the NY Press) is feuding with the L (a relatively new events listing guide for the Lower East Side, Brooklyn and other neighborhoods on the L line.) Both free pubs bought orange curbside boxes, so L editor Scott Stedman suggested they duke it out in a boxing match. He originally wanted a soccer match, but Press editor Jeff Koyen (or "Jeff Koyer" as the Post affectionately calls him) thought soccer was "too European." "I'm not going to do some stupid boxing match to settle this," says Koyen. "We'd prefer to get drunk and play them in a softball game... What we're really looking for is a street fight, and we'll kick the c—p out of them." [Koyen notes via email that "I'm not one to quibble over misspelled names or bad quotes, but I'd never use the phrase 'kick the crap out of'. Most likely, I said 'kick the living fuck out of' or something equally and typically vulgar. Damn copy editors."] My advice to Koyen: dispense with the softball game (softball is a sport for tweedy book nerds from publications with higher ad rates) and subject them to one of your old editorials. The orange boxes aren't worth it.
Rival freebie editors see red over orange boxes. [NY Press]