Friday, April 3, 2026

Review: "Hair" (1979)

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Recently I came upon an article in the Hollywood Reporter listing 47 iconic movie and TV sites in NYC. Read it here . (Why it's not an ...
Saturday, March 28, 2026

Remembering Vanessa Del Rio, NYC's Greatest Adult Star

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In the wild heyday of the NYC adult film scene of the 1970s and '80s, no star shone brighter than that of Vanessa Del Rio's.  She wa...

Bobby D & Al Talk "No Kings" in NYC

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Sunday, March 22, 2026

Review: "Chess"

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Well this is certainly a Mr NYC first: I'm reviewing a current Broadway show that I had previously blogged about as being a historical c...

The American Rasputin's Home -- March 21st, 2026, 4:14 PM

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Russia's Grigori Rasputin  lived at Gorokhovaya Street, Apt. 20 in St. Petersburg, Russia : America's Rasputin, Jeffrey Epstein , li...
Thursday, March 19, 2026

The Saga of the Ansonia: NYC's Most Notorious Building

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If a building could be called a Drama Queen, then NYC's most drama-filled building is the Ansonia on West 73rd-74th street and Broadway....
Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Gotta Love New Yorkers

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I've been listening to the public radio show This American Life for over 25 years. Recently they did an episode called "In the Sha...
Thursday, March 12, 2026

Remembering Sleazy NYC

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Currently I'm really into looking at ads and newstories from 19070s NYC. I promise I won't post too many of these but I couldn't...
Saturday, March 7, 2026

NYC Commercials 1978/79

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I can never get enough of these old NYC commercials -- and if you want to know what was popping up on TV screens around the city in 1978 and...
Friday, March 6, 2026

Ronnie Eldridge RIP

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Ronnie Elgridge has died at the age of 95. She was a staple of Manhattan politics for decades as an activist, adviser, government staffer, ...