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Joker, the box office hit film from Warner Bros. starring Joaquin Phoenix showcases the backstory of the misanthropic comic book character. Gotham from the DC Comics universe is a fictional place, but highly inspired by gritty New York City. We interviewed the …
MoreGasp! On Monday, the NYC DOT announced via Twitter that the 110-year old cast iron globes atop the Manhattan Bridge were starting to be removed from the Manhattan-side tower, and in the next week the other two will come down. Not to fear however, they are being “recast & replaced with exact replicas” by the …
MoreNew York City itself is a true star in Motherless Brooklyn and one of the film’s great feats is the recreation of the lost Penn Station as it was in the 1950s. We speak with production designer Beth Mickle on how the demolished station was brought back to life.
MoreIn Inwood, a curious 30,000 square foot, 30-foot tall outcropping of bedrock in Inwood is currently for sale for $2.99 million. It gets even more complicated — the rock actually has two owners.
MoreHart Island is one of the city’s most beautiful and mysterious places. A new video from Unforgotten Films takes you into this normally off-limits island off the Bronx.
MoreCentral Park’s North End will be getting a much-needed $150 million restoration and reconstruction, and the Lasker Rink & Pool will be demolished and completely rebuilt in a more naturalistic setting.
MoreIf you’ve been to the Metropolitan Opera, you know there is often a lot of fighting happening on stasge. In the back of the house, there is an armory filled floor to ceiling with weapons of different types and eras.
MoreOn Roosevelt Island, Catalan architect and urban planner Josep Lluis Sert received one of the largest canvases on the island to create his ideal multi-family utopia. Join a free tour during Archtober to learn more about what came of the plan.
MoreIn 1982, the artist Agnes Denes planted two acres of wheat on the Battery Park landfill, a new outcropping on the Manhattan waterfront created as a result of excavation for the World Trade Center in the 1970s.
MoreOn October 4th, The Warner Bros. movie Joker will bring Gotham back to life again, starring Joaquin Phoenix in a dark turn for which he is already getting rave reviews. While the usual cast of DC Comics characters return for this oft-explored story, Joker is at its core, as described by Warner Bros. a “gritty, …
MoreThe beloved book Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem is coming out as a feature film with Edward Norton and Alec Baldwin as Robert Moses, with many great locations that create the film noir mid-century aesthetic of the book (including old Penn Station!)
MoreMeet Elyse Marks, a restoration architect working on NYC’s most historic buildings who is certified as a rope access technician, performing gravity-defying inspections!
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