Thursday, 22 July 2010

FINANCIAL INEPTITUDE?

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“Wall Street, runs the sinister old gag, is a street with a river at one end and a graveyard at the other. This is striking, but incomplete....
Tuesday, 21 July 2009

INTRODUCING THE TWO SIDS .....AND NANCY

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And for your entertainment and enjoyment let us introduce to you The Two Sid's .....and, of course Nancy. HISSING SID The first Sid is t...
Friday, 20 March 2009

YOU KNOW YOU'RE BECOMING A NEW YORKER WHEN....

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You take a taxi to your health club to exercise. You think Central Park is "nature." Your favorite movie has DeNiro in it. You ...
Wednesday, 18 March 2009

ACUTE TORTICOLLIS.......

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......or STIFF NECK . My doctor peered over the top of his half-glasses and pronounced that I was probably the author of my own painful com...

LEADER OF THE PACK....FOR NOW?

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Hotel Gansevoort, 18, 9th Avenue at 13th Street (above) epitomizes the entire essence of the Meatpacking District . Uber-Chic and cutting ...
Sunday, 15 March 2009

DID HE LEAP OR WAS HE.....?

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Steve Brodie (1863-1901 )( above ) was a bookmaker from Brooklyn who claimed to have jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge (below) and survived o...
Saturday, 14 March 2009

KING RAT

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Capt. Joseph Rose built his first house at 273, Water Street in 1773 and the second - remnants of which stand to this day (above) - in 17...
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Friday, 13 March 2009

PETE'S PLACE

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Pete's Tavern at 129 East 18th Street near Gramercy Park ,, claims to be the oldest continuously operating tavern in New York City. Th...
Thursday, 12 March 2009

ARCHITECT'S LOVE NEST COLLAPSES

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A vacant Manhattan building at 22,West 24th Street ( above ), that played a part in an infamous 'Gilded Age' murder case, partiall...
Wednesday, 11 March 2009

PENNSYLVANIA 6-5000....GERONIMO!

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Hotel Pennsylvania - 401, Seventh Avenue, across the street from Pennsylvania Station and Madison Square Garden. The Manhattan Room in ...
Tuesday, 10 March 2009

NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL A HOLE!

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Shortly after 8.00 on the morning of September 22, 1915, this stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 23rd and West 25th Streets, was the sc...

CANINE CAPERS

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In my blog " WALKIES" published on 15th. December 2008 , New Yorker's love of dogs was highlighted. It cannot be stressed enou...
Monday, 9 March 2009

THE TABLOID IS BORN

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Tabloids today are still focusing on salacious events as they did in 1836 41 Thomas Street is known as the birthplace of Tabloid journalis...
Friday, 6 March 2009

THE VILLAGE'S HOME FOR LOST DOGS

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208 E. 13th St. near Third Avenue The famed anarchist and feminist Emma Goldman ( below ) lived in an apartment on the sixth floor of this...