Life & Culture

Help Keep Pat’s Papers Afloat

Although the official “SOS Week” for Pat Kiernan’s website has ended, it’s up to you to keep on clicking. Most know Kiernan as the NY1 morning anchor who delivers the news with a glorious placidity that could have only been honed in his native Canada. He’s become an indispensable part of the morning routine for [...]

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Robert Moses: The Musical?

“His life and his whole persona is just outsize and almost mythic. It’s perfect for portrayal in musical theater…I try to portray the inner man…It’s not black and white — it’s nuanced…His life is just so full of ‘On this hand…but on the other hand…’” That’s how New York composer Gary Fagin described the musical [...]

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Panel on Life & Legacy of Mayor Koch

Tonight the Gotham Center at the CUNY Graduate Center will host a panel discussion, “Ed Koch and the Remaking of New York,” to discuss the mayoralty and legacy of Ed Koch. It will feature author Jonathan Soffer of NYU Polytechnic, who recently released a new biography of Koch, Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New [...]

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Frank’s Barber Shop in College Point.

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Bronxdale Houses Renamed for Sotomayor

The New York City Housing Authority’s Board recently voted to rename the Bronxdale Houses and the Bronxdale Community Center for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. The Bronxdale Houses were built in 1955 and are composed of twenty-eight seven-story buildings housing 3,479 residents in the Soundview section of the Bronx. Sotomayor moved into Building 24 at [...]

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BP Protest at Houston Street Service Station

On Friday evening demonstrators gathered at a downtown BP service station to express their outrage at the unprecedented oil spill affecting the Gulf Coast. Protesters fanned out along the Lafayette Street side of the BP gas station at Houston Street and Crosby Street. Police ringed the service island with metal barricades to prevent entry. The [...]

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Really?

If the electricians only placed that light fixture two feet higher or lower, a charismatic little piece of 1940s commercial signage could have remained intact. Despite the interrupted sign, the storefront is still in use as a launderette on East Tremont Avenue in the Parkchester section of the Bronx. If its neighbor to the left [...]

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