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SUMMER’S HOTTEST WAVES

September 1st, 2010

It is now official: the summer of 2010 was NYC’s all-time hottest. The National Weather Service has given it historical precedence over heretofore record-breaking summers: the summer of 1966, when days averaging 77.3 degrees (Fahrenheit) repeatedly unleashed 100 degree plus temperatures that caused the deaths of nearly 1,100 people; the summer of 2006 (with a similar string of 100+ temps) that resulted in power failures in Queens that lasted for weeks.

Nevertheless, 2010’s record-breaking heat was more subtle (insidious, perhaps) than cataclysmic; averaging 77.8 degrees but without the deaths, power failures and related woes caused by other hotly ambitious summers.

For example, Sal Medina, a newsstand operator from the Bronx, measured the heat by the number of frozen water bottles that he slipped into his pants this week to stay cool (three). Tally it all up, and the sum of the last three months is a rarely interrupted stretch of hot days that forced New Yorkers to keep cool in ways both traditional and creative. NY Times

And now there’s Hurricane Earl.

Hurricanes may come and go, but, as long as Hurricane Earl is coming, many in the Rockaway area are going…surfing; an inevitable lark that occurs on the wake of many an approaching or passing hurricane. While North Carolina’s tourist areas are being evacuated, the Daily News is reporting that surfers were “salivating” on their way to Rockaway Beach to catch a wave; in fact, the beaches there are crammed with the surfboarder breed.

At 2 p.m. Wednesday, the National Weather Service estimated that New York City has just a 40% chance of seeing tropical storm-level winds, but the odds have been increasing all week as the storm track sidles westwards.

Again, New Yorkers are using both traditional and creative methods to keep (or look) cool during this hottest of summers…even if their heads are just barely above water.

Related: Big Winds, Big Seas, Big Gates

With Hurricane Earl on the Way, We Can Hitch a Ride to Rockaway Beach! (observer.com)
As Hurricane Earl bears down on East Coast, NYC surfers get ready to ride the wave (nydailynews.com)
Hurricane Earl is expected to bring relief to hottest N.J. summer on record (nj.com)
Hurricane Earl projected path predicts a near-miss with N.J. (nj.com)
Hurricane Earl heads for US coast (bbc.co.uk)

THE HEAT BEATS ON

August 31st, 2010

The heat is back and it’s expected to be around for at least another week. As August sizzles off into a complacent September, while the newspapers are packed with Back to School and Labor Day hype, the final weeks of summer may be a repeat of last July’s month-long torridness.

I’ve been dazed and confused, locked within a state of lethargy bordering on catalepsy, during these closing days of August; not at all up to the business of blogging. My wife and I were spending much of the time at the beach, receiving our fair share of sun and surf, as the heat was beating down on the town.

Bloomberg News reports: “The heat that descended on the U.S. East Coast yesterday is forecast to affect New York City all week, according to the National Weather Service, baking workers, back-to-school students and U.S. Open tennis players and fans.

High temperatures in Central Park are expected to be 11 to 15 degrees Fahrenheit (6 to 8 Celsius) above normal through the end of the work week, said Joe Pollina, a weather service meteorologist in Upton, New York.”

Indeed, summers nowadays are a far cry from the like of the rural childhood innocence of Bradbury’s DANDELION WINE, the melodramatic lyricism of Sandra Dee and Troy Donahue in A SUMMER PLACE, or the rollicking-frolicking tunefulness of Nat King Cole’s THOSE LAZY, HAZY, CRAZY DAYS Of SUMMER. Today, summer is, for the most part, overwhelmingly hot and not at all innocent or lyrical and certainly not a rollicking-frolicking tunefulness; then again, perhaps we’ve grown too old for such things. I can’t wait for autumn and ultimately winter when I could complain about the cold, not to mention the ice and the snow.

New York City Heat Wave Expected to Last Till Weekend (businessweek.com)
New York City Heat Wave Expected to Last for Entire Work Week (businessweek.com)
After a Day for Sparklers, a Day for Sprinklers (nytimes.com)
Hurricane Earl on path toward U.S. East Coast (theprovince.com)
Tropical Dose of Humidity in New York (nytimes.com)

DIGGING TO GINSBERG’S DIGS

August 28th, 2010

Poet Allen Ginsberg spent the last 22 years of his life residing in a small East Village apartment that he shared with his lifelong partner Peter Orlocsky. The two poets lived in the fourth floor walk-up at 437 East 12^th Street from 1975 to 1997; and, following the death of Ginsberg in 1997, Orlocsky continued to live there until 2009; he died last May while the apartment stood vacant. Now the modest one-bedroom apartment has been renovated and is on the rental market; for connoisseurs of Beat Generation-related ambiance, and accompanying ghostly inspiration, it’s going for $1700 a month.

In 1954, Ginsberg met Orlocsky in San Francisco when the former was an unknown poet and the latter an unknown model with little interest in becoming a poet. They fell in love and, under Ginsberg guidance, Orlocsky gave up modeling for poetry. With the publication of HOWL in 1955 (“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked….”), Ginsberg’s long, complex and controversial career was launched. He, along with other founding members (particularly Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs) of the Beat Generation would, in their own diverse ways, go on to usher in the counterculture movement of the 1960s.

By the 1970s, Ginsberg’s worldwide fame and infamy, acclaim and disapprobation, had made him a legend in his own time and within his adopted hometown, New York City. He had lived at several locations in the city, but his longest residence was at the building on East 12^th Street. Ginsberg actually had three apartments there: one used for work; one that he would sublet to friends and students; and one, now open to renters, in which he lived.

The Ginsberg caption reads: “View out my kitchen window August 18 1984, familiar Manhattan back-yard, wet brick-walled Atlantis sea garden’s Alianthus (stinkweed Tree of Heaven) boughs waiving in rainy breeze, Stuyvesant Town’s roof two blocks north on 14th Street – I focused on the raindrops on the clothesline.” [Allen Ginsberg Estate]

Header photo: Via Left to right: Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Louis Cartwright, Herbert Huncke, William Burroughs, Allen & Peter’s new apartment, 437 East 12th Street, New York City, December 1975. Photographer unknown.

Ev Grieve

FOREVER-IN CONEY ISLAND

August 26th, 2010

Entrance to Loop-the-Loop Ride, Surf and 10th. Built in 1901. National Roller Coaster Day on Aug 16 commemorates the date the patent was issued in 1898. Photo © Coney Island History Project Archive

The Coney Island History Project exhibition center on Surf Avenue under the Cyclone will join in Saturday’s [August 28] celebration by sharing rare photos of roller coasters, including one of the Tornado from the Coney Island Chamber of Commerce and donated by Jack Ward. Charles Denson, History Project Director, will interview coaster enthusiasts for CIHP’s Oral History Archive. Coney Island Cyclone

Last-minute plan: Save Coney Island, one short film at a time (timeoutny.com)
uhuru design’s cyclone lounger from reclaimed Coney Island boardwalk (alternativeconsumer.com)

PLAY ON, ELECTRIC LADY

August 25th, 2010

Electric Lady celebrated its 40^th anniversary last Tuesday. Situated amid a row of downscaled Greenwich Village shops at 52 West Eight Street, this is the famed music studio founded by Jimi Hendrix in 1970. An oddity in its day because of its (very psychedelic) originality, it’s now an oddity due to its staying power. While other big name NYC studios have long since shut down (the Hit Factory, the Record Plant, Sony Music Studios, etc) the Electric Lady is alive and well and still here.

Eddie Kramer, Hendrix’s favored engineer and a force in the studio’s creation, has a simple explanation for its longevity.

“In a word: vibe,” he said, sitting in a small lounge by the control booth for one of Electric Lady’s three recording rooms. We wanted to create an environment where Jimi could feel really happy, and feel that he could create anything.”

And I’m sure that Jimi felt extremely happy in his Electric Lady; its ambience was guaranteed to evoke his electrified impulses.

“Instead of following the usual studio model — a big, impersonal box tended by buttoned-down staff engineers — it was a psychedelic lair, with curved walls, groovy multicolored lights and sci-fi erotica murals to aid the creative flow.”

Unfortunately, Jimi was destined to enjoy his beloved studio for a very short time: the legendary guitarist died a few weeks after the Electric Lady’s opening gala on August 26, 1970. Nevertheless, he left a considerable library of tapes from sessions at the studio; the roster of fellow music legends who have worked there (such as the Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder and Led Zeppelin) have further complemented the memory of Jimi Hendrix via the Electric Lady.

NY Times

Listen to “Voodoo Child” (the superb ELECTRIC LADYLAND album version):

A Hendrix Castle Where Musicians Still Kiss the Sky (nytimes.com)
Jimi Hendrix Legacy: AES NY Section To Host Electric Lady 40th Anniversary Salute? (psychedelichippiemusic.blogspot.com)
Report: The JIMI HENDRIX Legacy – AES NY Section Hosts Electric Lady Studios 40th Anniversary Salute (bravewords.com)
The only place Jimi Hendrix called home (telegraph.co.uk)

CRAWLING ABOUT TOWN

August 23rd, 2010

In the words of the Daily News: “First came King Kong. Now bedbugs are trying to conquer the Empire State Building.”

Over the past few months, the creepy-crawly critters have been doing the Big Apple and doing it big time. Scattered and various-sized infestations of bedbugs have been found in homes and businesses across the five boroughs. Even though these infestations were small they were still alarming, especially when establishments such as Victoria’s Secret and the Time Warner Center came under assault. Now it’s the Empire State Building; however, ESB management is shrugging off the matter:

“Like so many other buildings in New York City, the Empire State Building had a small incident of bedbugs,” the building said in a statement. “The occurrence was specific to a uniform storage area in the basement of the building. The area has been treated and fully cleared.”

[Nevertheless]:

Tourists streaming into the city’s tallest building were sickened to hear it was visited by parasites.

NYC isn’t taking the problem lightly and has allocated a half-million dollars to exterminate these unwelcome visitors…that merely crawl around without spending any money here.

NY Daily News

Bedbugs found in small area in basement of Empire State Building (nydailynews.com)
Bedbugs Attack Empire State Building! [Bedbugs] (gawker.com)
Empire State Building Bedbugs Found (huffingtonpost.com)
Bedbugs found in basement of Empire State Building (boston.com)

INCIDENTALLY CONEY ISLAND

August 23rd, 2010

Coney Island is one of the most photographed areas of NYC. Second only to Times Square, according to the New York Times, it has inspired “not just chapters, but also whole picture books, like Peter Granser’s “Coney Island” (2006) and Harvey Stein’s “Coney Island” (1998).” But just when you had thought that there couldn’t possibly be anything more to be said—or photographed—regarding Coney Island, along comes Andy Levin.

Beginning in the late 1970s, Levin began exploring and photographing Coney Island. The result was “F Train to Coney Island”: an unpublished portfolio containing images that most visitors to that exotic getaway have seen only out of the corners of their eyes.

The photography is black-and-white in a fantasy land where color is predominant by nature and, as a result, entrancing; this “counterintuitive” approach makes his images even more striking.

“Maybe color was too literal for what I was trying to do,” Mr. Levin said in a telephone interview [with the Times] last week. “I was looking for symbolic pictures, and color makes it more realistic.”

“I tried to stay away from the freak show thing,” Mr. Levin recalled. “Not that I didn’t appreciate what was going on with it. It just wasn’t my intent. I wanted to convey the commonality of the family experience. That’s sort of how I grew up. I think I was naturally more responsive to those elements.”

NY Times (including photo gallery…a must-see!!!)

A Photographer’s Coney Island (cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com)
Photos: Coney Island Talent Show (timeoutny.com)

JFK IS BACK

August 21st, 2010

JFK is back in Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn after a seven-year hiatus and he’s looking better than ever…a bronze bust of the 35^th president by sculptor Neil Estern, that is. Experiencing the same ill-treatment that its predecessor in that section of the plaza, a towering figure of Abraham Lincoln, endured (neglect and resulting vandalism, insufficient funding and inevitable red tape), the monument has been enhanced and restored by its creator.

[Estern] has been badgering the Parks Department to revamp the monument since admirers nearly toppled the flimsy pedestal during the first unveiling ceremony in 1965. The city didn’t scrape together the funds to install a sturdier, granite plinth until 2003. But the new platform led to another problem that was nearly as dire as the Cuban Missile Crisis: the JFK bust didn’t fit properly on the new pillar.

Not one to be daunted, the 84-year-old artist produced an even larger, rounder version of JFK from his original clay model, with finer facial details and carvings, which would fit onto the pillar. Last year, NYC came up with the $70,000 needed to return the statue to its cherished spot in the plaza.

The official rededication ceremony is set for Aug. 24.

The Brooklyn Paper

BYGONE BATHING BABES

August 19th, 2010

In the latter part of the 19th century, going to the beach at Coney Island was a big deal; even so much as getting one’s feet wet on the shoreline was a supreme endeavor. While established New Yorkers may have dressed elegantly (or profusely) in that era of staid if dubious mores and morals, sportiness was an act of defiance and casualness hinted of impoverishment. Nevertheless, beach-going (along with actually venturing into the water) started to become popular in the 1890s. The problem was how to balance propriety, especially in regard to female bathers, with fun in the sun.

A self-appointed “master” of beach-going advice, a Dr. Durant (who was enough to make male chauvinists, even of his time, look foolish), offered women a tedious handbook dealing with what to wear and how to behave at the beach:

“The bathing dress should be made of a woolen fabric,” he announced. “We particularly insist upon woolen as the material to be worn, as it retains the heat of the body, and therefore prevents a too rapid evaporation. Maroon and blue are the proper colors,” he proceeded, where there were none who dared gainsay him, “as they resist the bleaching and corrosive effects of the salt-water. The dress should consist essentially of two parts—a pair of pantaloons and a blouse…The pantaloons …should not be buttoned too tightly to the ankles, as circulation would thereby be impeded…Enter the water resolutely and briskly, until the water reaches the waist…If you can swim three strokes without going under, it is a fair start.” GOOD OLD CONEY ISLAND

For the most part, only the burgeoning hordes of newly-arrived immigrants ignored the arrogant blustering of such as Dr. Durant; either through choice or necessity, they did their own thing. Lacking the money for conventional elegance, open to “sportiness” due to their own cultural disparity, and wearing the “casual” dress of a working class which often experienced appalling difficulties, Coney Island was an oasis of enjoyment.

The beach was a place to get one’s feet wet on what was pleasurable in America, while enduring New York City’s less pleasurable tenements and workplaces. Soon the restraining “woolen fabric” and “proper colors,” etc, of bathing dresses would be dropped; bathing attire that would be as comfortably attractive to wear as the pleasure gained, along those now distant waves of change, would soon follow.

Coney Island goes back in time (thestar.com)

BEWARE! NYC SUMMERTIME AIR

August 18th, 2010

Summertime and the breathing is sleazy. A new Department of Health report (see PDF) has determined that NYC’s summer air is breathtakingly laced with those finer things in life…such as intoxicating particles of elemental carbon, nitric oxide, nitrogen dioxide and other airborne goodies. And no matter how the facts, figures, maps and charts are delineated, oriented, calculated, colored, scaled or projected, the results are the same: the air quality in this town undoubtedly sucks from June to September.

“The take-home message here is that the air quality just isn’t great anywhere in New York City. What’s surprising is just how variable the air quality is across the city,” Deputy Health Commissioner Daniel Kass said.

While dangerous levels of particulate matter (dust, pollen, and other materials) were found in the more building-/ people-congested areas of the city like Lower-, Midtown Manhattan and the Bronx, areas in the outer-boroughs (Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island) that flank major highways have even higher levels of such pollution.

Even neighborhoods regarded as “safe havens” amidst the city’s hustling-bustling reality are severely blighted with contaminated air. Ground-level ozone (formed via a reaction of oxygen and pollutants with sunlight) is more pronounced in “downwind” areas of the city like the Rockaways and southern Staten Island.

Health Commissioner Thomas Farley, in a prepared statement, said the study emphasizes the need to switch to more fuel-efficient cars, reduce overall vehicle traffic and rely more on mass transit. [In other words, the situation is apparently hopeless.]

While all is abuzz in this city with “going green,” the more abundant the smog is growing. Perhaps the only thing truly green is the profit margin on pork barrel projects, disguised as “environmentally-friendly,” in this newfangled Gilded Age of ours…that alone would account for the smog as well as for the stink.

New York Post

ROCKING-SOCKING SOFTEE

August 16th, 2010

NYC could be a tough town for, among other things, the ice cream trade. Last week on West 60^th Street and Broadway, the ice cream really turned hot when a Mister Softee vendor discovered that a competitor (a generic Softee, reportedly) had moved in on his regular spot. The real Softee vendor exited his truck and confronted his pseudo-Softee nemesis; hence, the ice cream rumble began.

Real Softee was far from soft as he began shaking the pseudo-Softee truck, while rattling off a clump of expletives, then directing a roll of racial slurs at the encroacher. That was all pseudo-Softee could stand, he could stand no more, and came out slugging.

This isn’t the first time ice cream truck vendors have lost their cool in the heat. The NYPD reportedly cracked down last month after a vendor allegedly attacked a police officer. A Mister Softee driver was also the instigator in a fight that occurred on 50th Street and 6th Avenue just 12 days ago. And it’s not just ice cream trucks who face threats, food trucks have had their share of run-ins with the police and competitors as well.

NYC The Blog

[Note] In the video, the spectators identifies one of the trucks as a Mister Softee truck, but Jim Conway, V.P. of Mister Softee, tells us, “Neither driver or truck is affiliated with Mister Softee. Both are independent ice cream vendors.” Well, whoever they are, they’re taking the ice cream vendor’s job just a little too seriously. Gothamist

And Mister Softee, with his cool ice cream and merry jingle, is so pleasantly reminiscent of childhood summer days (as in this, circa 1965, ad). Oh well…I was so blissfully ignorant of such things as turf wars and related business disputes in that distant yesteryear.

GATSBY ALL OVER…AGAIN?

August 14th, 2010

America’s current economic woes have finally reached that seasonal haunt of the idle/ self-idolized rich and famous: the Hamptons, where the ghosts of Jay Gatsby and his Daisy forever play. Despite the fact that hard times in that privileged land of devil-may-care displays would be as detectable as costume jewelry in a Tiffany’s show window, the “recession, Hamptons style” has somehow arrived nevertheless.

Reduced prices are the most insidious symptom of hard times in privileged lands; especially places like the Hamptons at the height of their season that are charging off-season prices. Something’s wrong when a lobster salad that went for $100 last summer is now $40. The hotels and inns are booked due to drastic price reductions of their own. But even though they’re saving on where they lodge and where they dine, tourists are spending far less at stores now offering discounted merchandise. And while real-estate sales are up, in most cases they’re up because prices are down.

And yet, the rich and famous still flock. Madonna moved into her house on Lily Pond Lane, and Lady Gaga might be out later this month, renting. A woman from Tampa spent $500,000 for a two-week rental and didn’t even look embarrassed talking about it on The Joy Behar Show. The earliest you can get a table at Nick & Toni’s on a Saturday night is 10:45 p.m. Revlon’s Ron Perelman gave his annual July Fourth Gala at the Creeks, where he again played drums with Jon Bon Jovi, and Lally Weymouth gave herself another sit-down birthday dinner at her Southampton estate, with guests invited three months in advance.

Where is F. Scott Fitzgerald when you need him in this day of minified fascinating rhythm and cockeyed summertime blues? He’d probably be writing about it all (all over again), but from a safe distance this time around…probably from a brownstone in Park Slope, Brooklyn, where the children of a lesser if equally absurd god reside.

Daily Intel

Teaching ‘The Great Gatsby’ With The New York Times (learning.blogs.nytimes.com)
Curbed Hamptons: Sagaponack Homeowner Wants to Add 40th Bathroom; More! (ny.curbed.com)
This Summer’s Hamptons: Hot Spots of the Season (nytimes.com)

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