Living in a city such as New York requires a certain degree of grace under fire and disappointment. Each and every day brings with it an additional letdown that is routinely tallied-up as symptomatic of big city life, then resignedly accepted by the majority of its jaded inhabitants and gradually forgotten (or absorbed). Almost anything [...]
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The 1960 collision between a TWA Constellation and a United Airlines DC-8 over New York ranks as one of this city’s greatest disasters. I was 6-years old at the time and I’ve never forgotten that incident; in fact, I’ve always been haunted by the horrors that went unseen by me. Lacking any existing video documentation [...]
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Restored war monument highlights NYC Memorial Day ceremony 5/26/2008, 4:08 p.m. EDT The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — “As the nation marks Memorial Day, New York City officials have unveiled a newly refurbished Civil War monument in Manhattan’s Riverside Park. The city and the private Riverside Park Fund have paid more than $1 million [...]
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“The Bible says that God created the universe in six days. It took slightly longer for a Sunset Park artist to tackle the epic task of painting every one of His Old Testament commandments. Indeed, Archie Rand spent five years painting all 613 commandments on individual canvases in a ‘Mad magazine style,’ and in doing [...]
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Today marks the 125th anniversary of the Brooklyn Bridge. Stretching 5,989 feet across the East River to connect Brooklyn to Manhattan, it’s one of the oldest and most famous bridges in the world. Designed by John Augustus Roebling, the bridge is one of the city’s most treasured icons and it was designated a National Historic [...]
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“Following news that Kennedy has a malignant brain tumor, national radio host Michael Savage opened his show by cutting audio of Kennedy with clips of reporters discussing his diagnosis and audio from Kindergarten Cop in which Schwarzenegger says, ‘It’s not a tumor.’” He later played a Dead Kennedys song saying it was ‘in some respect [...]
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Bordered by Bleecker Street to the north, Bayard Street to the south, and by Lafayette Street and the Bowery respectively to its west and east, a neighborhood called Little Italy (now Chinatown) lay situated in Lower Manhattan. This sordid area of dilapidated tenements, broken streets, and impoverished but ambitious people, was, out of necessity, called [...]
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The maestro of fierce celluloid Martin Scorsese has teamed-up with those rockin’ vagabonds of rock The Rolling Stones for a new documentary. Filmed at the Beacon Theatre in New York in 2006, the documentary features two concerts which the Stones performed there for a select and small audience, including 30 members of the Clinton clan [...]
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In the spirit of Martin Scorsese, New York City continues its proud tradition of sordid intrigue. Unfortunately, the joke’s on all of us. Sphere: Related Content
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The image above, a scene from THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS (1953), terrified me as a child. Even though I hadn’t yet been born to view it on a movie theatre’s big screen, the small screen of our television sufficed while my imagination did the rest. The lurking menace in the night which approaches its [...]
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Neil Neches has the awkward yet proud distinction of being the only person since David Berkowitz (“The Son of Sam”) publicly recognized for his correct use of the semicolon. An employee in the New York City transit authority’s marketing/service department, Neches made a little-noticed literary embellishment to a much-noticed placard hanging in the city’s subways. The [...]
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