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History

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American Airlines Terminal 8 at John F. Kennedy International Airport was completed 48 years ago (the airport was still called Idlewild then) and was recently razed to accommodate the airline’s plans for a new mega-terminal on the site. One contentious part of the terminal demolition was what the airline would do with the building’s iconic [...]

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AWNY Video Connection

“The young ladies from Miss Knapp’s select school have an outing at Coney Island N.Y.,” circa 1905.

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New York Now: Exhibition

The Morgan Library & Museum is putting its collection of three Gutenberg Bibles–the largest number of copies in a single collection–on display for the first time in over a decade. Johann Gutenberg and his associates printed only between 120 and 135 copies of the Bible on paper and between 40 and 45 copies on vellum, [...]

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Another Diner Gets New “Lease” on Life

The former Market Diner on the northeast corner West 43rd Street and 11th Avenue in Hell’s Kitchen is planning to reopen–not replaced with hastily-built condos, but in use again as a diner! Word came last month that the diner would be returned to service, and yesterday it was confirmed that the opening will come in [...]

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AWNY Photomat

Corner detail of the former J. Kurtz & Sons furniture store on Jamaica Avenue by Allmendinger & Schlendorf, 1931.

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The End is Nigh: Dead Rising in Bay Ridge

Preservationists fear that the end may be coming for the Bay Ridge United Methodist Church at Ovington and 4th Avenues. This week the church erected protective screening and began the process of exhuming the remains of 211 former parishioners from an underground crypt at the church site. The fate of the church has been up [...]

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AWNY Video Connection

Watch “Elektro,” the Westinghouse spokesrobot at the 1939 New York World’s Fair from the film “The Middleton Family at the New York World’s Fair” (also conveniently sponsored by Westinghouse). Elektro walks, talks, hits on the ladies in the crowd, and even smokes cigarettes. You can view his insides here, and learn about the recent rediscovery [...]

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