Thursday, April 30, 2020

Eating in NYC Back in the Day

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Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Review: "Six Degrees of Separation" and Its Legacy

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In 1981 a deeply disturbed black seventeen year-old named David Hampton ran away from Buffalo to NYC to start a career as a con man. He had...
Tuesday, April 28, 2020

The Dirty History of NYC's Clean Water

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If you want to understand the history of America, particulary its growth and development, you could study the history of one thing -- water...

Richard Hake RIP

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The longtime WNYC reporter and local "Morning Edition" host Richard Hake died this weekend at the age of 51.  His kind yet autho...
Monday, April 27, 2020

The Plan to Reopen NYC

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Friday, April 24, 2020

Remembering the New York Coliseum

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If you go to Columbus Circle, on West 59th Street next to the edge of Central Park, you'll find the blue twin towers of the Time Warner...
Thursday, April 23, 2020

A long, long time ago, in an NYC far, far away ...

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... there were these things called telephones , that today we call "landlines", and you actually had to pick them up with your ha...
Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Review: "The Bonfire of the Vanities" (1990)

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This is a bad movie -- a legendarily bad one. I've  blogged  about it incidently over the years. But the story behind its creation ...
Monday, April 20, 2020

God Bless Staten Island!

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What if you held a protest and nobody showed up? Even, it appears, the organizers of the protest? As you're doubtless aware, ar...
Friday, April 17, 2020

Smackdown! Cuomo Makes Prez His B#%&

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