Thursday, April 30, 2026

The King & Queen Take Manhattan

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Wednesday, April 29, 2026

The English in NYC

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As the British King and Queen visit America, it's a nice time to remember that, while England might be America's Mother Country, a l...
Monday, April 27, 2026

Manhattan's Vertical Mansions

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Saturday, April 25, 2026

Remembering "The Howard Stern Interview"

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In the early 1990s, radio shock jock Howard Stern was becoming a cultural force. Based in NYC, he had been syndicated around the country an...

Remembering the Lufthansa Heist of December 1978

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The original news coverage ... The history and fallout as explained by a former James Bond ... And as it's immortalized in cinematic his...

Last Paragraph of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road"

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"So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, long skies over New Jersey and sen...

NYC Subway Action Scenes

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The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (1974) Dressed to Kill (1980) Nighthawks (1981) Friday the 13th: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) Carlito's Way (...
Friday, April 24, 2026

Wag the (Ex) Mayor 

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The sleaze of former Mayor Eric Adams , cleaning up the trail of slime he left behind from his four years in City Hall, is apparently someth...

Hey, I wuz 'dere!

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In the summer of 1996 I spent six weeks as a student at the London School of Economics. It was a nice experience, got some college credits, ...
Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Who Was NYC's First Mayor?

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