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 [...]
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The Brooklyn Public Library is going the way of high-tech fund-raising, similar to that used to fund Haitian earthquake victims. “Support Our Shelves” will accept tax-deductible donations of $10 via text messages at “books” 50555; the donation charged to the donor’s cellphone bill.
“It should make a difference on two fronts,” said Jason Carey, a library [...]
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NYC’s oldest living resident has witnessed much history that has come and gone and faded off into infinity…she is 111 years old. Her name is Jane Gilsenan and she was born on Amsterdam Avenue and 98th Street in Manhattan on May 8, 1898; the very year that the City of New York emerged with the [...]
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Nothing Like the Real Thing
This bike-guarding “pooch” didn’t pass a reality check outside the Clark Pet Shop, 57 Clark St., Brooklyn Heights, this past weekend. Brooklyn Daily Eagle
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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[Letter]:
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 [...]
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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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Thank you, Anthony Wiener. It’s about time that a MAN rose up and slammed it to these stonewalling thugs…corporate lackeys that they are.
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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 [...]
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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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