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FRIDAY NIGHT FEVER: Bond International Casino
To get you in the mood for the weekend, every Friday we'll be celebrating 'FRIDAY NIGHT FEVER', featuring an old New York nightlife haunt, from the…
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UncategorizedYoung Griffo: New York’s first film, location shoot
October 2, 2007
The streets are getting particularly clogged these days with film crews in New York. According to the Mayor's office, expect to see the following on your block: Gossip Girl, 30 Rock, What Happened In Vegas (Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher), Death In Love (Adam…
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Big, big buildings and little, little kids
(Above: a boy delivers some very heavy looking hats through the city, circa 1910)Most photographers document history, but few actually change it. Lewis W. Hine entered…
Worth Square: Madison Square’s cemetery for one
As you can tell from this lithograph of the Worth Monument dedication in 1857, it predates most of the development that surrounds it today. (NYPL) Few Americans…
FRIDAY NIGHT FEVER: The Rainbow Room
To get you in the mood for the weekend, every Friday we'll be celebrating 'FRIDAY NIGHT FEVER', featuring an old New York nightlife haunt, from the…
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San Gennaro Festival (Part 2) : Most Precious Blood
The well from which the San Gennaro Festival draws its zany carnival energy is surprisingly the church which sits its center, the birthplace of the first…
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San Gennaro Festival (Part 1) : Blood and Sideshows
Every year for the past 80 years, Mulberry Street in Little Italy becomes a wacky religious carnival. Why the San Gennaro Festival -- with its mixture…
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A few strikes at New York’s bowling palaces
As often happens in the blogosphere, seemingly unimportant events get parceled about with declarations that don't really mean much. For instance, the announcement yesterday that a…
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9/11: From the other side of downtown
I wasn't sure what kind of entry to post today, so I figured it might be interesting for some of you to read an excerpt from…
FRIDAY NIGHT FEVER: Geoghegan’s / Steve Brodie’s Saloon
To get you in the mood for the weekend, every Friday we'll be celebrating 'FRIDAY NIGHT FEVER', featuring an old New York nightlife haunt, from the…
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Rabid Doors fans and tennis pros
The world has turned its eyes to Flushing Meadows, Queens, for almost 30 years now thanks to the U.S Open, held as the sports complex called…
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Sunday In the Park With George (Washington)
While winding through the financial district in lower Manhattan on Sunday (Sept 2), I made my way down Stone Street (one of the city's oldest paths)…
FRIDAY NIGHT FEVER: Jackie 60
To get you in the mood for the weekend, every Friday we'll be celebrating 'FRIDAY NIGHT FEVER', featuring an old New York nightlife haunt, from the…