The current word on the the streets and through the caverns of New York City is that it’s the Number One destination for foreign tourists, according to Global Insight, an international economic analysis firm. No wonder I found it so crowded here lately, as a flurry of cultures and languages swarmed around me; one and [...]
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Slide Show: Float On
Summer allows for brief flings with childhood eating habits like ice cream from a truck or hot dogs in the backyard. But there’s no need to seclude yourself at the kids’ table with this season’s batch of ice-cream floats. From a Dark and Stormy variation at Five Napkin Burger to [...]
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For anyone who thought (or was hoping) that Peter Frampton was dead, he’s certainly not. The Brooklyn Paper is reporting that the man behind the “talking six string” and accompanying wah-wah pedals, guitar jams and the like, will be performing at the Seaside Summer Concert Series on July 31 in Coney Island. The concert is [...]
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On the morning of July 28, 1945, a U.S. B-25 bomber piloted by Lt. Colonel William Smith, was flying a routine mission from Bedford Mass. to Newark Airport in New Jersey; the weather was rainy with a thick overcast. He inexplicably appeared over New York Municipal Airport (now LaGuardia ) and requested a weather report. [...]
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OPACITY is a wonderful site that features various ruins in and around the NYC Metro area: buildings, churches, prisons, cemeteries, boats, etc.. As with these ghostly vessels at the Staten Island Boat Graveyard, the dying fragments of the past float on an endless sea of shadows that are a part of us and [...]
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A 12 block area in Prospect Heights consisting of 870 buildings is being designated a “historic district” by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. It’s the city’s latest effort to preserve history while serving progress at the same time. Even though the LPC’s intentions are arguably well-intentioned, the proposal is too little too late and absolutely ineffectual [...]
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In Woody Allen’s film ANNIE HALL, Alvy Singer (Allen) describes his childhood home situated directly under a roller coaster. Flashbacks reveal his family “happily” gathered together for Alvy’s birthday. Everyone is neatly arranged around a neatly trimmed birthday cake that, in an instant of thunderous-sounding motion, is left broken and scattered all over the room…alas, [...]
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“Dark Knight opens at midnight, and as the previews show, the city gets beat up pretty bad in the epic battle that ensues. New York is always getting destroyed over and over again in movies. Why? Because it looks awesome! Here are clips of the 15 best films featuring New York getting annihilated”:
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The New York City Seal is (as with other city seals) a representation of its founding. Bearing the legend SIGILLUM CIVITATIS NOVI EBORACI, which translates into and proudly proclaims the “Seal of the City of New York,” it portrays a union(?) between colonists and Indians in the figures of Dexter (a Dutch sailor) and Sinister [...]
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What became known as Coney Island’s “Parachute Jump” was originally the LifeSaver exhibit at the 1939-40 New York World’s Fair. The fair was held in the Flushing Meadows section of Queens, New York (where the 1964-5 Fair would be held); it was one of the 20th century’s most splendid yet most poignant [...]
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Miss Brooklyn is now Miss New York!
By Gersh Kuntzman
Of course, it’s no surprise to readers (and lookers!) of The Brooklyn Paper, but Miss Brooklyn Leigh-Tayor Smith is now Miss New York!
The stunning Smith, who is admittedly a Virginia-raised Manhattanite, but has a strong tie to Brooklyn thanks to being a parishioner at the [...]
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Starbucks faithful clientele of snazzy coffee drinkers were breathing a nifty sigh of relief this week. While the cost of living and even dying is soaring towards insanity, these caffeine groupies were deeply considering a far more important matter: Would Starbucks join the ongoing diaspora of businesses leaving New York City on the wings of [...]
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