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The restaurants that our grandparents told us about are getting replaced weekly. The last automats in New York have long
A little over forty years ago, in a nightclub called Max’s Kansas City, Robert Mapplethorpe made his way through
There’s always an undercurrent of tragedy in Dublin, even if its inhabitants face it with unnerving courage. The capital
Eddie’s Sweet Shop in Forest Hills The restaurants that our grandparents told us about are getting replaced weekly. The
The East Village may be gentrifying, but it’s still one of the last refuges for bohemia in Manhattan, and
In 1850, the depth of New York Harbor was between 10 and 20 feet. Today, the harbor is more than
Section 3 of the High Line might not be opened or shined up, but High Line Art has commissioned (temporary)
It’s Shark Week, and there has certainly been quite a lot of unexpected news on that front. Yesterday, subway
Besides the amazingly diverse population, the community gardens, the graffiti, and the air of resistance, one of the East Village’
If you’ve wandered Alphabet City lately, you might have noticed the artwork pictured above, or others like it. This
Image via Flickr courtesy of The Library of Congress The Cotton Club might be Harlem’s most famous surviving jazz
The last thing we expect to see on a Department of Sanitation building is classical architecture, much like yesterday’s
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