As it happened, development rights for a large parcel between Dyer Avenue and Tenth Avenue on 42nd Street hinged on including a performing-arts element to make up for two Off-Broadway houses that had been razed to allow for a subway extension.
Because, in spite of such stuff, social media has unmistakably become a transformational element within American life from the White House to Main Street and everywhere in between.
Normally the release of the Federal Reserve's Beige Book alone would give Wall Street plenty of material to obsess over, but on Wednesday there was the added element of a slew of scheduled comments by central bank officials.
Mr Ahern told the Dail that Downing Street was aware that on Tuesday morning he was reluctant to travel to Hillsborough because of concerns about the decommissioning element.
If the regulators truly believe that the main element of their structural reforms, the separation of equity research from investment banking, will remove Wall Street's inherent conflicts of interest, they are mistaken.