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Get Angry

Wildan 4:35:00 AM Add Comment miscellany, savenyc Edit

If you're on Facebook, you know about the new "reactions," a set of emojis you can choose to react to a post. Instead of just ...

2015 Vanishings

Wildan 4:58:00 AM Add Comment miscellany Edit

At the end of each year, since 2007, I offer a list of places that vanished during the year. These are the ones I covered on the blog, but t...

Bickle Hawk

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This is the mohawk wig that Robert DeNiro wore to play Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver . If you want to commune with it "in person," ...

Nostalgia Train

Wildan 4:28:00 AM Add Comment miscellany Edit

Riding the Nostalgia Train sounds like something you do when you're lost in reverie and memory, pining for what used to be. If that'...

SantaCon

Wildan 4:53:00 AM Add Comment miscellany Edit

SantaCon is coming. I hope to avoid it. Here's a SantaCon repost from Christmas past: On the downtown 6 train, on the day of Santacon. D...

Bad Old Days

Wildan 4:17:00 AM Add Comment hyper-gentrification, miscellany Edit

There's a panic spreading across a certain sector of the city. Pre-Giuliani New York is coming back! For mega-realtor Robert Knakal at t...

By a Landslide

Wildan 4:55:00 AM Add Comment miscellany Edit

Yesterday the city overwhelmingly voted in Bill de Blasio as our next mayor -- 73% to 24%. He will be our first progressive, our first Democ...

Sidewalk Bumping

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This weekend, I put together a quick survey entitled “Sidewalk Bumping in New York City.” It consisted of 10 mostly multiple-choice with som...

Those Bags

Wildan 4:35:00 AM Add Comment chinatown, miscellany Edit

I was thinking about these bags a little while ago and wondering what to call them. I was thinking about them because I don't see them a...

Vanished 2011: People

Wildan 4:15:00 AM Add Comment miscellany Edit

Finally, this week, remembering the people and personalities we lost in 2011. Bobby Robinson , the proprietor of Bobby's Happy House in ...

Vanished 2011: Structures

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Several buildings and other structures fell in 2011. We're still watching 7 - 9 Second Avenue fall, a harrowing loss of history--includ...

Vanished 2011: Food

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We lost many restaurants in 2011. *Update: Regrettably, we add Polonia to the list, shuttered Christmas Eve after 22 years in the East Vil...

Vanished 2011: Businesses

Wildan 4:45:00 AM Add Comment miscellany Edit

We lost a number of businesses in 2011. Today is the latest as 46th Street's drum mecca, Drummer's World, closes its doors after 32 ...

Saved 2011

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This week, as every year, I'm doing a roundup of what's been lost over the past 12 months. The next days will cover vanished restaur...

Christmas Trees & Canadians

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Originally published December 2007 : After every Christmas, we wake to find the trees have vanished. The Quebecois who brought them have le...

NYC ABCs

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Thanks to Bryan Waterman for calling our attention to this alphabet clip from an early 1970s Sesame Street . It used the streets of New Yo...

How to Be a New Yorker

Wildan 4:30:00 AM Add Comment miscellany, press Edit

In this week's Village Voice , on stands today, Jen Doll publishes a big cover story entitled "How to Be a New Yorker." It...

Newsstands

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A few people have asked about my story on the city's newsstands and their history, originally published in Forgotten New York , Septembe...