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Rooftop dining and dancing under the stars
It’s July. It’s hot, really hot. Where did sophisticated New Yorkers go to relax, cool down, and take in a big band orchestra or tango? Perhaps one of these rooftop restaurants, as feature… more »
Ephemeral New York
Rooftop dining and dancing under the stars
wildnewyork wrote 1 day ago: It’s July. It’s hot, really hot. Where did sophisticated New Yorkers go to relax, cool d … more »
"I don't get around how you get around"
wildnewyork wrote 1 day ago: Cool old ad in the December/January 1986 East Village Eye for They Might Be Giants’ first reco … more »
The wrought-iron angels of Ninth Avenue
wildnewyork wrote 3 days ago: On Chelsea’s grimy 24th Street, a block flanked by the usual bodegas and ethnic restaurants, a … more »
Arion Place's musical mansion
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wildnewyork wrote 5 days ago: Now known as the Opera House Lofts (and located in East Williamsburg, at least on paper), this state … more »
Clubbing with Madonna in 1984
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wildnewyork wrote 1 week ago: She was already famous by October 1984 when these party pictures ran in a downtown art-music-fashion … more »
When little babies entertained New York
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wildnewyork wrote 1 week ago: New Yorkers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries loved babies so much, they paid an admission f … more »
Eagle eyes in the subway
wildnewyork wrote 2 weeks ago: Eagles like these line the platform of the 33rd Street 6 station, a reminder of the armory that once … more »
Tom Verlaine at the Peppermint Lounge, 1982
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wildnewyork wrote 2 weeks ago: Television’s Tom Verlaine had a solo show scheduled at early-80s New Wave/punk venue Peppermin … more »
New York's distinctive tenement tiles
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wildnewyork wrote 2 weeks ago: The city is filled with them: 6-story walkup “new-law” tenement buildings, usually four … more »
The masks near the Meatpacking District
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wildnewyork wrote 2 weeks ago: I’ve always wondered about this 5-story apartment house on far West 13th Street. Though you ca … more »
The secret door in the subway wall
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wildnewyork wrote 3 weeks ago: Amid all the cute beaver plaques that adorn the Astor Place station lies a subway mystery: What … more »
"The Bowery at Night"
wildnewyork wrote 3 weeks ago: Painter William Louis Sonntag, Jr. depicted the Bowery in 1895, as it was transitioning from New Yor … more »
Polly's MacDougal Street hangout
wildnewyork wrote 3 weeks ago: Looks like a jolly crowd inside Polly’s restaurant, at 137 MacDougal Street, around 1915. Poll … more »
"Avenue B—the Place to Be"
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wildnewyork wrote 1 month ago: “3 Teens Kill 4″ is a great name for a band, isn’t it? The weather was probably ho … more »
Somethin' fishy on the streets of New York
wildnewyork wrote 1 month ago: You can’t go far in the city without coming across reminders of its seafaring past on building … more »
Where the cool kids drank and danced in 1984
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wildnewyork wrote 1 month ago: If this was the summer of 1984 and you identified with the downtown art or music scene, you probably … more »
"Sun Set at Gowanus Bay"
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wildnewyork wrote 1 month ago: An 1851 oil painting by Australian artist Henry Gritten. The full title is “Sun Set at Gowanus … more »
"Some Time in New York City"
wildnewyork wrote 1 month ago: Before settling uptown in 1973, John Lennon and Yoko Ono lived for a year or so in a loft at 105 Ban … more »
Meet the 19th Century Hipster Queen
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wildnewyork wrote 1 month ago: That would be Ada Clare, a writer and actress who came to New York in the 1850s as a single mother e … more »
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