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Friday, June 13, 2008
For the weekend: Seven songs
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Alex at Flaming Pablum passed along this music meme to, uh, me. Here's the deal: "List seven songs you are into right now. No mat...
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Fire trucks on St. Mark's Place
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Someone said something about a gas leak. Didn't seem too serious.
Appreciating the classics
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Friday The 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan is, of course , the most realistic film ever made about New York City. As the review on Al...
"The neighborhood was desolate, so underpopulated that landlords would give you a month's free rent just for signing a lease"
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[ Photo of 216 E. 7th St. in 1979 by Marlis Momber ] My obsession with the East Village in the 1970s and early 1980s continues. In November...
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Things are getting really tough at the Fed
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Outside the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on Liberty Street, 11:20 a.m., June 12. Bonus (Or, perhaps, Punishment): Jeremy Irons rips off...
Old sign of the day
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I came across this Cloder sign on Ann Street, which runs parallel to Fulton near the Financial District. I did a little digging and couldn...
Thursday, June 12, 2008
"Every successful society needs its Bohemia, a haven for the artists, exiles, and misfits who regenerate the culture"
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Finally made it past the cover of the July Vanity Fair . Recommended reading, this piece by Christopher Hitchens : Last Call, Bohemia Every...
Checking in with "The God of Gambling"
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Lysandra Ohrstrom at the Observer checks in with some OTB regulars, including "the God of Gambling." It's a brief slice-of-li...
“New York at that moment was bankrupt, poor, dirty, violent, drug-infested, sex-obsessed — delightful”
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New York City during the 1970s was a beautiful, ravaged slag — impoverished and neglected after suffering from decades of abuse and battery....
Drv-In moving to the East Village?
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Saw the following item in BizBash yesterday about Grand Opening's expansion away from its current digs on Norfolk Street: The folks at...
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Hope for OTB: The end may not be so near
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According to NY1 : A day after Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the end is near for the city's Off-Track Betting Corporation, Governor David...
No one is apparently approving the reader recommendations at visitnyc.com
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How do I know this? Because I went to the site yesterday and started making stupid nightlife recommendations as part of the NYC & Compa...
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Hot in the city (1910-1915 style)
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The Library of Congress has a photostream at Flickr that includes archival photos of Manhattan. Given the diabolical heat of late, these se...
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Speaking of hot . . . checking in at the FunHouse Disco
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So what is this? According to the YouTube description: "New York Hot Tracks visits the popular FunHouse Disco on 26th St. in Manhattan ...
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