VIDEO: City Paper Closes the Second Floor
As of yesterday, City Paper’s office at 2390 Champlain Street, NW is no longer a two-story operation. (The idea is to save on rent while effecting, ahem, a “more perfect union” between edit and web.) So now the old editorial desks languish on the second floor—empty but not forgotten—and the CP staff in toto has divvied up the third floor: the writers, the editors, the salesmen salespeople, the marketeers, the web folks, the ad coordinators, the classifieds folks, and the operations team. Lion lying down with the lamb, as it were. Or, you know, cats and dogs living together. Whichever you prefer.
Either way, the end of last week was one massive game of musical chairs, as staffers boxed their personal and professional effects, unearthed a few oddities (Cherkis‘ first cover story! Amanda Ripley’s alarm clock! A headless photo of David Carr!), and reminisced. A stirring scene.
Watch it below.
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11:20 am
what’s the modicon for tears?
got this is depressing.
right now it’s running even with the gun shots fired near my house last night.
11:45 am
is it true the second floor is gonna become a Bennigan’s?
12:40 pm
What? No Eddie Dean detritus unearthed? When he left his cube, I recall finding old half-eaten sandwiches. I was sure more of his junk had to be hiding in there.
this is so depressing.
12:58 pm
I got plenty of Eddie’s stuff–a business card, and that can of unopened juice.
4:02 pm
Don’t nobody steal my Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots. I’m coming back to pick that shit up.
5:13 pm
Good video. Everyone looks remarkably well. Capital, Amanda, capital.
6:26 pm
How many CP staffers can fit in a phone booth?
(Daddy, what’s a “phone booth”)
7:15 pm
aw, such an historic moment.
Who’s in my old office?? Has anyone sprung the booby trap yet?
1:07 am
I have no idea what other “symbolic” crunches there have been. I’d say a a bankruptcy is a pretty material thing … I’m such a silly intern lol
8:05 pm
Amy is in your old office, Mike. And Ted, scratch that “salesmen” and make it “salespeople”!
10:39 pm
Reporters get promoted to the Executive Penthouse and they still whine and complain. Isn’t the high pay enough for the media-elite.
12:27 am
Nikki,
Duly noted! See above.
8:20 am
I see that Jason Hutto has already adopted his new office personality, Disco Wizard.