This photo, taken Tuesday, shows the damage Green-Wood Cemetery sustained after this weekend’s storm, said to have been “one of the worst in recent years,” according to Phil Abrahamson, spokesperson for the Parks Department. {read more} Brooklyn Daily Eagle
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We’ve experienced (and still are experiencing) a turbulent weekend here in NYC. A nor’easter, of exceptional sound and fury signifying everything, ravished the NYC area with winds gusting at over 60 mph, toppling trees and power lines. Power was knocked out for 126,000 residents in the five boroughs while commuters were left stranded due to [...]
Wearing futuristicly stylized attire, Fergie and her Black Eyed Peas took over Times Square in New York City last night (March 10, 2010) performing a surprise concert. The music event was scheduled to promote the launch of Samsung’s new 3D TV’s which are available this week. Starpulse.com reported that though the concert was [...]
Most New Yorkers do not like to share anything: be it money, time, information…or, especially, their taxi ride. The Share-a-Cab program (still in its beta phase) was yet another good idea, in a long list of good ideas, which might have looked good on paper but couldn’t fly in the real world.
In this day and [...]
Hey Jude Times Square Subway Station from 39forks on Vimeo.
Video: “Hey Jude” Subway Sing-a-long
Reader Scott caught this moment on tape at around 10:30 last night in the Times Square subway station—it’s sort of similar to the “Hey Jude” sing-a-long that went down during the Newark kissing bandit/security breach episode. Maybe the Beatles song is the [...]
William Jay Gaynor served as Mayor of New York City from 1910 to 1913. He is among this city’s plethora of former mayors who are now mostly forgotten, even though a bust of the mayor sits in Cadman Plaza. In his day, his brief yet impressive term was notable for unprecedented reform; an initial set [...]
Galapagos Arts Space Presents “‘Swingin’ At Jack’s’”
BROOKLYN — The year is 1947 and Jack’s gin joint is the hottest place in town. The saucy French maitre-d orders you to take your seat as the flirty cigarette girls try to sell you a jujubee along with your cigarette. {read more} Brooklyn Daily Eagle
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My father and I have been doing research over the past few months on an old Brooklyn fire badge that was recovered by a relic hunter near Port Hudson, Louisiana, and this research has led me to you. I acquired this badge and was able to identify the owner via a badge [...]
Snow comes down over the Brooklyn Bridge, as blizzard hits New York City.
Predictions for today’s storm were so dire that officials canceled school and grounded flights hours before the first flakes even fell, sending the city into emergency mode as the behemoth blizzard inched closer to Gotham.
“This will probably shut down [...]
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 [...]
A retrospective on the New York City of the 1970s/ 1980s, when the town cast a “gloriously gritty” ambiance, is always good for a bittersweet sort of nostalgia. But we were younger then and hungover from the Sixties; it all seemed like an all-encompassing Theatre of the Absurd.
Take a look at the Gothamist’s [...]
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You’d probably be somewhat surprised (or, perhaps, somewhat delighted) to learn that in 1824 half of Manhattan Island was on the verge of falling into the sea. This rather disappointing and dismal news was heralded by a man called Lozier, something of a savant factotum, first circulated among the city’s merchants and eventually [...]
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