June 2011
8 posts
Last Chance! Win $100 to a Great NYC Jazz Club!
How to enter? Simple: In 1958, 57 notable jazz musicians gathered on a brownstone stoop for a legendary photograph entitled A Great Day in Harlem.
Your mission: where was this photo taken? Click here to learn how to enter!
A Very Strange House in New Jersey
It’s almost like the house is involved in a serious game of hide-and-seek with the other houses, and found the best hiding spot ever.
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Wile E. Coyote Spotted in Harlem??
I was driving down 110th Street the other day when I noticed an unusual truck up ahead…
Ha, no beating around the bush on this one! I half expected to see Wile E. Coyote driving as the Road Runner booked it up Lenox Ave.
According to Wikipedia, the “Explosives 1.1d” label on the rear means “secondary detonating explosive substance or black powder…without means of initiation and without a...
A Ghost House in Queens
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T-Bone’s Flowers & Gifts
Sorry if it’s been a little quiet this week, I’m in the midst of a big apartment move. Ha, while I was cleaning out some old college boxes, I found this card that someone gave me the first night I was in New York. I was 18 and still scared to be out in the city at night, and all of a sudden, this really sketchy thug-looking guy is coming in my direction. He reaches in his pocket, and...
Contest! Identify The Mystery Location & Win $100...
Want to win a $100 gift certificate to the Jazz Standard, one of the best jazz rooms in New York City?
All you have to do is identify a mystery location…
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Little Italy Fools Another Tourist (Me)
The other day, I drove by Umberto’s Clam House in Little Italy, the infamous restaurant where “Crazy Joe” Gallo got whacked…
…and noticed it was finally gone for good.
As I was writing a post about the loss of such an iconic facade, I started comparing this picture…
…to an historic photo taken in 1972…
And I started to realize that the...
Exploring The Abandoned Pfizer Chemical Plant in...
In 1849, Pfizer, the largest pharmaceutical company in the world, was founded in South Williamsburg, Brooklyn…
Over 160 years later, the plant was finally closed for good.
I was recently given a tour by the new owners, and was blown away by what remains in the 8-story, block-wide factory: labs, a cafeteria, a gym, a doctor’s office, and tons more - and it’s all available...
