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Thursday, November 30, 2017

Who Will be City Council Speaker?

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Now that the municipal elections are over, it's time for the newly elected and re-elected members of the City Council to choose their l...
Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Consolidation & Andrew Haswell Green

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If you want more info about how NYC consolidated in 1898, go the Bowery Boys website and download their great podcast episode about how it...

Greater Gotham: A Discussion

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Interesting discussion with author Mike Wallace on his nearly twenty-years in the making sequel to his 1998 book Gotham: A History of New ...
Tuesday, November 28, 2017

WE WANT WEED!!!

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Recreational marijuana is now legal in eight states. Most are out west (like Colorado, California, and Nevada) and the closest state with ...

"The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel"

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Looking forward to seeing this: it's a new Amazon show about a female stand up comic in 1950s NYC. This is the era that produced Joan R...
Monday, November 27, 2017

Making NYC Radio Great Again

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92.3 FM, the old K-Rock, which years ago abandoned rock music to become a pop station, is now a rock station once again .  Sadly it won...

Free Melania!

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If you love trashy gossip -- and there's nothing trashier and more gossip-prone than the vile man currently "serving" as POTU...
Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Ya'll go to Times Square now! Ya' hear?

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How much is NYC changing? Here's one example of a change that's coming ... or, alternatively, a'comin': the Grand Old Opry,...
Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Downton Abbey in NYC

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Everyone's favorite British TV show went off the air almost two years ago but now you can re-live Downton Abbey in NYC. I'm...
Monday, November 20, 2017

The MTA: Decline and Fail

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In the first chapter of his legendary biography of NYC master builder Robert Moses, Robert Caro quotes Sophocles: "One must wait until...
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