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Bob Egan was completely dressed in black when we met him on 50th Street on a 97-degree day. If he
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On Wednesday, a huge crowd gathered on Christopher Street, outside the Stonewall Inn, to celebrate the Supreme Court’s rulings
In Prospect Park, off of Center Drive, there are two thousand gravestones and buried bodies older than the park itself.
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Around the time that technicolor features were first introduced to theaters, British film pioneer Clause Friese-Greene was experimenting with video
Hell’s Kitchen has come a long way from the gang rule it was once under. Today its real estate
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We’re used to the once-sacred becoming commercialized (Christmas in America, anyone?), but occasionally, roles are reversed. The commercial has
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