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 [...]
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Just because a canal is toxic is no reason it shouldn’t be popular. Apparently, that’s the reasoning of many trend-propelled hipsters and other new age adventurers in regard to the Gowanus Canal: NYC’s infamously polluted waterway. In spite of (or, perhaps, because of) its toxic notoriety, the canal attracts a lusty horde dressed in Coachella-styled [...]
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French composer Erik Satie’s Vexations is a work that probably originated in an exhilarating moment of either pure experimentalism or utter lunacy; if anything, its intent remains a mystery. Composed around 1893, it’s Satie’s longest and most arduous creation: an organized totality of 840 repetitions, on a single three-part diminished chord, of chromaticism and dissonance [...]
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emergency brake from Casey Neistat on Vimeo. Most subway riders haven’t a clue when it comes to a train’s emergency brake. The confusion begins with the first line of instructions alongside the brake itself: “Emergency Instructions… Do Not Pull The Emergency Brake….” Does that mean that the brake should never be pulled, in or out [...]
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Of the estimated 300 Federal houses in NYC, the Merchant House is the most genuine and best-preserved. Built by Robert Brewster in 1832, the red-brick and white-marble row house is situated at 29 East Fourth Street in Manhattan; the Tredwell family lived there for nearly 100 years. In 1936, after extensive repair and renovation, the [...]
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Ten Gracie Square is one of Manhattan’s Good Buildings: a benchmark of the ultra grandest in grand elegance for those maintaining crème de la crème existences. There are only 42 such residences in the borough (most of them being on Fifth and Park Avenues), where the very richest, if not always the very famous, play [...]
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We’re always hearing about manhole explosions, but have you ever seen one? One captivated duo caught an exploding one on 29th Street, noting: “Firefighters closed down the street and moved a car parked within 20 feet of manhole cover.” Gothamist Just another day in the city…with a modest bang: business as usual and hardly anyone [...]
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If, when the like of Christmas rolls around, there’s a special person in your life that has everything (or, at least, a formidable surfeit of impracticalities), your excuse for not buying him or her anything at all is at an end. Through the inspired genius of human entrepreneurship, you can now trump that person’s stash [...]
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If it was known at all outside of New York City, it was because of a chapter in Betty Smith’s “A Tree Grows In Brooklyn” when Francie dons a mask and becomes an urchin in the streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn on Thanksgiving. Indeed, long before Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade appeared in New York City, there [...]
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The fact that parking spaces on Manhattan streets are as rare as empty seats on subway trains during rush hours has been long established. Motorists have been known to search high and low–oftentimes begged, borrowed and killed–for a chance to park within a reasonable distance from their destination. Even within the luxurious dream-within-a-dream realm of [...]
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In 1962, a strike against New York City’s nine major newspapers virtually and literally stopped the presses for 114 days. Originating at the Daily News, where grievances were at a fever pitch, on December 8 workers from the New York Times, New York World-Telegram & Sun also walked out. Soon, the New York Daily Mirror, [...]
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The dubious distinction of being the first newspaper to employ newsboys (or newsies) goes to the New York Morning Post, not to The Sun as is widely believed. A medical school graduate by the name of Horace David Sheppard, whose heart was in journalism not medicine, observed several young street peddlers selling spice cakes on [...]
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