The Recording Industry of Association of America (RIAA) is reporting that measured shipment values on vinyl records have increased from 36.6% from 2006 to 2007. Even though this is significantly lower than CD and digital record sales figures (a half a billion CDs compared to 1.3 million vinyl records purchased in 2007), a considerable market [...]
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Apparently, one of NYC‘s last remaining “railcar diners” will not be saved from the wrecking ball after all. The Cheyenne Diner once stood on 33rd Street and Ninth Avenue in Manhattan since the 1940s, when rail travel was elegant and railcar-shaped dining attractive. Last April, the Cheyenne was closed to make way for (that’s right) [...]
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The Coney Island Polar Bear Club took their New Year’s Day plunge into the icy, fun-filled waters of the Atlantic Ocean today. A tradition since 1903, nearly 700 men, women and children enjoyed their frost-happy dip and laughed to scorn reason and sanity. Nearly 3,000 spectators attended this annual event that’s now over a century [...]
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THE YULE LOG CELEBRATES 42 YEARS PIX 11 TO AIR THE YULE LOG ON DECEMBER 25 FROM 9AM TO 1PM NEW YORK, December 3, 2008 – It wouldn’t be a holiday in New York without The WPIX Yule Log! The Yule Log, the famous film loop of a burning log in a hearth, has mesmerized viewers [...]
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Autumn in New York, as the Vernon Duke song goes, is often mingled with pain because the promise of new love is as inviting as that of autumn leaves: beautiful yet dying. The beauty of half-remembered loves and half-forgotten days are eternal in these glittering crowds and shimmering clouds that the wind carries through canyons [...]
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The recent Auld Lang Syne observances in honor of our two departing baseball teams are a big business in NYC lately. Last week, we had the Yankees depart amidst a parade of saccharine nostalgia and commercialized praise; this week, it’s the Mets (not to be outdone; but, as always, ultimately outdone) departing amidst a similar [...]
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“It will only grow with time, like Lou Gehrig’s farewell, Don Larsen’s masterpiece and Reggie Jackson’s third home run in a World Series game. Untold thousands will say they were there the night the curtain fell on baseball’s grandest stage.” (NY Times) Are they kidding!!! These pinstriped goons are only moving across the street; it’s [...]
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clipped from www.newsday.com CLASSIC, WACKY & WEIRD NYC SIGNS features a unique and interesting collection of unusual and nostalgic signs (such as the one above: a vintage sign atop a shoe repair shop in Woodside, Queens, NY); it can be found here. Sphere: Related Content
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Coney Island’s Astroland has “died” more often than Cleopatra in Shakespeare’s ANTONY And CLEOPATRA. Over the past ten years, every time it was reported that the playground was about to die, there it was again when the season began. Even over the past three years, when word went out that it wasn’t only about to [...]
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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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The Domino Sugar Refinery building is a relic that real estate developers and landmark preservationists are currently sweet on. It’s a century-old refining plant located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn that’s been closed for years and has, until recently, been quietly crumbling into the mist of time. However, while Domino lost its commercial viability here in NYC, [...]
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