The heat is back and it’s expected to be around for at least another week. As August sizzles off into a complacent September, while the newspapers are packed with Back to School and Labor Day hype, the final weeks of summer may be a repeat of last July’s month-long torridness. I’ve been dazed and confused, [...]
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In the words of the Daily News: “First came King Kong. Now bedbugs are trying to conquer the Empire State Building.” Over the past few months, the creepy-crawly critters have been doing the Big Apple and doing it big time. Scattered and various-sized infestations of bedbugs have been found in homes and businesses across the [...]
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JFK is back in Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn after a seven-year hiatus and he’s looking better than ever…a bronze bust of the 35th president by sculptor Neil Estern, that is. Experiencing the same ill-treatment that its predecessor in that section of the plaza, a towering figure of Abraham Lincoln, endured (neglect and resulting vandalism, insufficient [...]
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In the latter part of the 19th century, going to the beach at Coney Island was a big deal; even so much as getting one’s feet wet on the shoreline was a supreme endeavor. While established New Yorkers may have dressed elegantly (or profusely) in that era of staid if dubious mores and morals, sportiness [...]
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Summertime and the breathing is sleazy. A new Department of Health report (see PDF) has determined that NYC’s summer air is breathtakingly laced with those finer things in life…such as intoxicating particles of elemental carbon, nitric oxide, nitrogen dioxide and other airborne goodies. And no matter how the facts, figures, maps and charts are delineated, [...]
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Sleepy Hollow Road hasn’t been very conducive to sleep over the past few months. That restful street in the New Springville section of Staten Island has experienced a rude awakening ever since a family of a dozen chickens and two roosters moved in. Every morning at about 4 a.m. these new kids on the block [...]
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“The bulldozers are coming,” was the chant of the day; its theme being colonial/ revolutionary. Last week, the environmental advocacy group Times Up! got into the Spirit of ’76, à la Paul Revere, and assembled in Tompkins Square Park. Sporting echoes of ye olden times (tricorn hats, vests, flowing-sleeved shirts, etc.), they mounted their “horses” [...]
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An elderly harbor seal has finally found true love in the amatory waters of the New York Aquarium. Bernie, who is 23 years old and quite long-in-the-tooth, has found the seal of his dreams in three year old Coral; it was love at first sight and, for better or worse, the couple is now “shacked [...]
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Every time I complain about summers in NYC, someone from a place like Arizona or Louisiana magically appears to gripe about summer weather in his/her hometown. “Man, you don’t know what HOT is until you were sautéed in the scorching sun of Phoenix,” the Arizonian tells me…“ or were marinated in the sultriness of New [...]
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Peter Saltini was a galling oddity amidst the stylish dynamics of Park Slope, Brooklyn. He either possessed an unfathomably sardonic sense of humor or was unfathomably off his rocker. And even though many of my best friends (and neighbors here in Park Slope) possess similarly unfathomable talents, there’s usually a redemptive method to their humor [...]
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Titled “Chelsea Girl,” this was shot by Jamie nyc. He states: “Truth be told I liked the geometries of this the most – the stone blocks, the angles of her legs, her arm… Not my typical shot but I was digging it.” Truth be told, I don’t blame him. Sphere: Related Content
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Her name was Birgitte Olsen; and in 1964 when she was four years old, even though no one would know her name (or anything else about her for the longest time), she became famous. Olsen’s fame was the result of a 60-second political campaign advertisement that was unlike any other ever seen before or since [...]
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