- NYT on Just Kids: "spellbinding and diverting portrait of funky-but-chic New York in the late ’60s and early ’70s." http://bit.ly/bKuDHf #
- Has anyone read John Wray's "subway novel," _Lowboy_, now in paperback? I somehow missed the hardcover publicity. -bw #
- New plays about Alcott and Dickinson this afternoon in the East Village. Festival closes today! http://metropolitanplayhouse.org/anothersky #
- Am I secretly 80 yrs old? Few things in life as pleasurable as Jonathan Schwartz's Sunday Show: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/schwartzsun/ #
- I should have signed that last one -bw. I'm not sure how Cyrus feels about sleepy music on Sunday afternoons … #
- John Adams, Royall Tyler, and Woody Allen walk into a bar … New post: http://bit.ly/ddc64j http://bit.ly/9Wzzlo #
- Museums gone wild! My fav: the Natural History Museum Whale @NatHistoryWhale RT @brooklynhistory … #followamuseum is trending in NYC. … #
- Nice shout out to our fellow NYC hist blogger @lidian: RT @gothamist Classifieds From the 1800s http://bit.ly/aHkic8 #
- He, too, is New York: RT @amhistorymuseum Today in 1902: Poet Langston Hughes is born. Do you have a favorite Hughes poem? #
- My use of the phrase "Dubai dildo" in today's lecture WRT Cooper Square Hotel was dedicated to @jeremoss Here's why: http://bit.ly/d91Kbx #
- New post: where the b'hoys are: http://ahistoryofnewyork.com/2010/02/no-dainty-kid-glove-affair/ http://bit.ly/asq6wY #
- Check out @mcnallyjackson for cool live tweeting from tonight's event: a presentation of the new ed. of R. Ellison's 2nd novel. #
- Ahem, @NewYorkMag — Red flannel has a longer history on the Bowery than you might have imagined. http://bit.ly/cH2GCA #
- @NYMag Ahem — Red flannel has a longer history (at least on the Bowery) than you might have imagined. http://bit.ly/cH2GCA in reply to NYMag #
- Perfect east sider song for the end of a long week:♫ The Whistling Bowery Boy – Albert Whelan http://lala.com/zLJVI #
- "The people ride in a hole in the ground": RT @jennydeluxe rt @brainpicker Archive of all NYC subway maps ever made … http://is.gd/7MonA #
- Non-stop laughs: Tom Snyder interviews KISS on NBC in 1979 – mp3 – http://bit.ly/al19AF ( via Scott Williams @wfmu – http://bit.ly/bUNoZv ) #
- freeland #
- "It’s the gang that lives here that makes it it what it is." Photographer Curt Hoppe on the Bowery @evgrieve : http://bit.ly/bqIp59 #
- Ooops. Should have said photo-realist painter Curt Hoppe … title of the upcoming show threw me. @evgrieve : http://bit.ly/bqIp59 #
- Useful NYC tips from Horatio Alger's RAGGED DICK: "The distance between two parallel streets is called a block, and 20 blocks make a mile." #
- @evgrieve I hope the bar survives as a bar! Bummer news for 18c NYC. RT Fraunces Tavern Restaurant to close http://eater.cc/9wKoN8 @EaterNY #
- @sfj True dat: @samamidon is one of NYC's musical treasures. Love this 2008 interview, and not just b/c I conducted it http://bit.ly/bkapfn in reply to sfj #
- If I didn't have to work today, I'd spend it curled up in bed reading Patti Smith's _Just Kids_. What about you? -bw #
- Better news from 18c NYC: @DowntownNYC http://nyti.ms/bzECtr Fraunces Tavern will close briefly while there is a management change #
- Congrats to Kolby Warren, who wins a prize for helping us reach our 100 mark on FB. I still have a prize for… http://bit.ly/ao24kp #
- New post: Prostitution exposed! http://bit.ly/9QOiyY http://bit.ly/aDka2J #
- @k_mukai Good thing there's an extra afternoon this week to get some reading done. Enough with all the twitter photos of people in the snow! in reply to k_mukai #
- Thanks to @MoonsiPie for being our 100th follow and to @CitySnapshots for the effort to get us there. You both win prizes! Send email (bw). #
- New York New Wave: Dance Stand, 80s cable access gems unearthed by @karateboogaloo and well worth the watch: http://bit.ly/bPSUAI #
- Born in Ohio, but lit up New York! This day in NYC hist: RT @amhistorymuseum Today in 1847: Thomas Edison is born. http://ow.ly/13Tqm #
- Measuring a life by your magazine subscriptions over time: http://bit.ly/9rGlZH #
- From its title I thought this would be abt 19c theater: RT @nytimesarts Swagger and Sideburns: Bad Boys in Galleries http://nyti.ms/9lnXQ1 #
- Friday excursions: Poe Place, Titanic House, The Other Downtown, Staten Island's arts scene, Soaring over the GWB,… http://bit.ly/dpuhZ6 #
- Wishing Abe a happy bday! RT @TeriTynes From the WOTBA archives – Walking Broadway with Abraham Lincoln http://bit.ly/9tyfPn #
- More Lincoln links! RT @brooklynhistory Did you know that BHS has a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by Abraham Lincoln? #
- More Lincolniana: RT @insidetheapple Free: Feb 25 @cooperunion Lincoln's pivotal Right Makes Might speech w/R. Dreyfuss (via @NewYorkology) #
- @parisreview re: the TCBoyle quote — hasn't that been every writer's dream for the last 150 years? Good luck with that! in reply to parisreview #
- New post: http://ahistoryofnewyork.com/2010/02/wooden-turnstiles/ http://bit.ly/bM1Lwa #
- Great chance to see "Lincoln in NY"! RT @insidetheapple Free admission at New-York Hist. Soc. today through Feb. 21 http://bit.ly/832YoG #
- Broadway and Washington Pl: Dancers occupying the intersection during red lights, choreographed pedestrian confusion. Fantastic! #
- NYC Lunar New Year events @mocamuseum and around town. Welcome 4708, Year of the Little Tiger! #
- again, w/ link! NYC Lunar New Year events @mocamuseum and around town. Welcome 4708, Year of the Little Tiger! http://bit.ly/dvi2mU #
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I’m reading ‘Lowboy’ now, on recommendation from a TA – it’s pretty good, certainly an easy read, but I’m waiting for it to pull me in.
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