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(www.brownstoner.com) The Loews Kings was one of the most majestic theatres in New York City, in a time when these things were taken seriously; abandoned (photo above) when they were taken less seriously. Located on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn, it opened on September 7, 1929 and was quickly labeled one of the five “Wonder Theatres” [...]

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SWEET CAROLINE/ HOW SWEET

November 28th, 2007

Stumbling onto Yahoo’s Homepage, what did I find but a tidbit of “news” on New York’s own Neil Diamond and his hit song “Sweet Caroline.” After decades of secrecy, he finally revealed to the world who the inspiration for the song was….Caroline Kennedy. Well blow me down!!! I had thought that everyone (along with his/her [...]

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GOING THE FRONTIER SUBURBIA WAY

November 27th, 2007

Even though my father, a WWII vet, was renowned in our family for having driven a tank through the gunfire of North Africa to that of Normandy, he never learned to drive a car through the potholes of Brooklyn. As a result, our travels were usually limited to the environs of New York City via [...]

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James J. Claffey, Jr. president of Local One must have been peeking into former Yankees’ manager Joe Torre’s etiquette manual when he proclaimed the following: “We want ‘respect’ at the table,” he said. “If there’s no ‘respect,’ they will not see Local One at the table. The lack of ‘respect’ is something we are not [...]

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BLACK FRIDAY’S BEST LAID PLANS

November 23rd, 2007

An example of Black Friday’s oftentimes futile and crazed shopping frenzy is exemplified in today’s New York Times: “Donna Lhopitault, 38, stood in line at the Toys R Us in Times Square for four hours this morning to secure a deeply discounted Nintendo Wii video game system for $250 — more than half the price [...]

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BALOON-IN COINCIDENCE

November 23rd, 2007

Coincidence has of late become so commonplace in our thought process that coincidence itself is becoming commonplace. We tend to accept odd and unusual events with a jaded resignation, not only when these events occur separately but also when they’re conjoined (to form coincidence) with others that bear an uncanny association with each other. From [...]

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The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade began floating down 7th Avenue in 1924 and, probably to put parade spectators (to wit: holiday shoppers) into a buying frame of mind, was originally called the Macy’s Christmas Parade. There were, however, no huge balloons in the parade’s first three seasons; instead, live animals borrowed from the Central Park [...]

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THIS THANKSGIVING & JFK

November 21st, 2007

This November 22, Americans will both celebrate Thanksgiving and commemorate the 44th anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination. I was 9 years old on that remarkable day and no medium, no matter how ingenious or sensational the film or book or whatever, could fully convey the impression left on us who were alive and aware at [...]

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MOON RIVER/ BIG APPLE

November 19th, 2007

Whereas WIRED’s “New York in Black and White” (posted 11/16) features shots documenting New York City’s burgeoning yesterday, represented mostly through architecture, “Moon River Photography” housed at SMUG MUG documents its dazzling today as represented by its people. The eternally constant and frenetic pace, counterbalanced by a steel and concrete resolution that could just as [...]

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SOMETHING NOXIOUS THIS WAY COMES

November 18th, 2007

Strange and curious odors are hardly uncommon in this city. In fact, many of the various stenches and aromas that plague society seem to have made New York their permanent home…or, at least, home away from home. Whether or not these odors arrive and depart at differing, unnoticed intervals or remain forever, New Yorkers may [...]

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WIRED TO THE PAST

November 16th, 2007

The above is only one of the remarkable images from an equally remarkable website called Wired New York. Their album entitled “New York in Black-and-White ” contains this and many, many other photos of stunning brilliance, clarity and intimacy. New York City, at the turn of the last century, seems to “come alive” again on [...]

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