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Views from Queensboro Bridge [Newtown Pentacle]
Recapping the Bike Shorts screenings at Public Assembly. [Brooklyn by Bike]
Staten Island: Into the Woods. [Ape Shall Not Kill Ape]
And for natural waterfalls, the gold goes to the Bronx! [Bronx Bohemian]
Nothing left but a ghost space: What was once the 125th St. Y. [Harlem Bespoke]
Photo by Mitch Waxman for Newtown Pentacle.
Tags: Bronx, Brooklyn, outer boroughs, Queens, Staten Island
Escape from lower Manhattan … at least in your mind. Maybe even in body!
Roosevelt Island tram will shut down for the spring and summer. Last chance to catch it before renovations is March 1 at 2 a.m. [Roosevelt Islander]
Save City Reliquary, New York’s coolest museum! [Edible Manhattan]
Ice Skating in Concourse Plaza [City Room]
Staten Island’s trees have their eye on you! [Scouting NY]
Will the new Kosciuszko Bridge please stand up? [Queens Crap]
And for kicks — Driving around NYC in 1928:
(via drm)
If that’s not old-fashioned enough — and if you just can’t shake your downtown chauvinism (as I usually can’t) — then take a public sleigh down to the Bowling Green, circa 1860 [Virtual Dime Museum]
Roosevelt Island tram photo via Gothamist.
Tags: Bronx, Brooklyn, outer boroughs, Queens, Roosevelt Island, Staten Island
Snow in Washington Square Park, February 10, 2010
Our friend MaNNaHaTTaMaMMa was quoted by the Associated Press in an article on Wednesday’s snowstorm. The article appeared in the New York Post. Look for the quote attributed to “Deborah Quinn.”
Check this out! It’s like half a dozen tweets all sent at once!
Kevin Walsh visits Poe Place in the Bronx. [Forgotten NY]
Titanic House leaves LIC. [liQcity]
The repopulation of Downtown Brooklyn [Brownstoner]
Tomorrow: Second Saturday in Staten Island. [Forgotten Borough]
Bald Eagles in Harlem! [Harlem Hybrid]
I missed this first one when it was new, but here’s a tour of prisons in all 5 boroughs. Follow it up with a tour of public restrooms. I’d like to dedicate the first link to Bartleby the Scrivener and the second to anyone who’s ever been cited for public urination. [Untapped New York]
Williamsburg public phone photo by Michelle Young for Untapped New York.
Tags: Bronx, Brooklyn, Harlem, outer boroughs, Queens, Staten Island
Things happening on the Web or IRT outside my neighborhood.
The Jane Jacobs of Gowanus [Found in Brooklyn]
The passing of a Harlem-born Tuskegee Airman [Harlem Bespoke]
Feeling hopeful at Staten Island’s Snug Harbor Cultural Center [snug-harbor.org]
Following Idiotarod 2010 from BK to Queens [Gothamist]
Coming-of-age clichés: Bronx edition [NYTimes]
Photo credit: An ephemeral scene on the Wmsburg Bridge, via Restless
Tags: Bronx, Brooklyn, Harlem, Queens, Staten Island
East River Plaza’s Costco lays off 160 workers; apparently NYers don’t have room to buy in bulk [Harlem Bespoke]
Benefit TONIGHT for Tuli Kupferberg at St. Ann’s, featuring Flutterbox, John Zorn, Lenny Pickett, Christine Ohlman, Sonic Youth, Lou Reed, John Kruth, Peter Stampfel and Tuli’s fellow Fug, Ed Sanders [Now I've Heard Everything]
Breaking down NYC pizza by borough/neighborhood: The Astoria Slice, pictured above [Newtown Pentacle]
Bronx-based William S. Burroughs look-a-like robbing shops in the Village [New York Times, via BoogieDowner]
A guide to Staten Island’s Hills: Look to them! [Ape Shall Not Kill Ape]
Astoria Slice photo by Mitch Waxman
Tags: Bronx, Brooklyn, Harlem, outer boroughs, Queens, Staten Island
If you’re looking for a warm nook to shelter you from the storm, today’s the last day for the DBA East Village crafts fair. Last week I bought some knitted goods, homemade jams and butters, and some handsewn bags and such for the ladies in my life (who, luckily, don’t really read this site and hence won’t have their surprises spoiled). Today I’m going back for some small ceramics. Everything’s sold by the folks who made it. I stole some truffles when my daughter wasn’t looking and can say with confidence she’s onto something good.
Will I get out of my lower Manhattan neighborhood this weekend? Maybe only virtually. But perhaps there’s something here that will be useful to you …
A treasure trove of holiday advice, from 25 Brooklyn gifts for under $25 to borough-specific volunteering opportunities. [Brokelyn]
Meet the Garabedian family, Pelham Parkway’s most decked-out decorators, with updates to follow. [BoogieDowner]
A vintage tea party on the V train to LIC (and more “nostalgia train” dates!). [Gothamist]
Harlem School of the Arts holiday shows today and tomorrow. [Harlem Bespoke]
Santa is expected to show up for Breakfast with the Beasts tomorrow at the Staten Island Zoo. We’re still bummed we missed SI’s singing nun spectacular. Next year!
Nostalgia train photo at top by Zodak via Gothamist.
It’s been a couple weeks since we posted our contribution to the “NYC Bloggers Do the Holidays” guide, the collaborative effort of this and 12 other blogs. (You’ll find links to the other sites, from now until the end of the season, at right in the sidebar, below the recent comments, or by clicking here and scrolling to the bottom of the post.)
We thought we’d check in on our fellow bloggers and see what additional goodies they’ve come up with in the intervening weeks.
Brooklyn Based, true to form, has a load of fun things on their Tip Sheet for the next week, including a Platza Party at Banya, Kensington’s Russian Baths. (See photo above; tuba courtesy of Zlatne Uste Brass Band, the house band for the event.) Being a fan of the schvitz, I was immediately drawn to that listing, though I have reservations about the idea of people smoking hookahs in the baths. Doesn’t quite seem kosher. Still, there’s a lot of other stuff happening across the river, including Sesame Street-themed caroling.
Give & Get has info on a mass effort going on in Times Square tomorrow, sponsored by WE tv, which aims to get women to pledge service hours for 2010. Prizes include a trip to NYC, which suggests (along with the event location) that it’s not exactly aiming at a local audience, but what the hey: service is service. An earlier post ruminates on the problem of too many volunteers. How best to organize our good intentions?
Manhattan Users Guide has an omnibus list of lists — the best of the best of the 2009 best of lists — as well as the low-down on holiday foods from truffles to tamales.
Mommy Poppins has been churning out kid-friendly holiday suggestions every day since we last checked in. Check out these great ideas for “experience gifts” — gifts that can’t quite fit under the tree. (Tickets to all nine carousels in NYC, anyone?)
NewYorkology has the low-down on one of our favorite NYC winter traditions: the nostalgia trains and buses. Find out where and when you can catch a ride on subway trains from the 1930s and buses from the 1950s.
NY Barfly has not one but two posts up on egg cocktails!
offManhattan has details on a holiday crafts fair sponsored by … the Brooklyn Historical Society! It ends tomorrow … catch it while you can. Or put it on your calendar for next year, since it’s an annual event.
the improvised life routinely offers great ideas for homemade gifts, including several ways to prepare apricots and cardamom.
the skint has a bunch of time sensitive free or cheap stuff and events listed — every day! By the time you read this, most of what they’ve announced for the day will be over. But if it’s still 12/16, and if you listened to Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix as much as I did this year, check this out: today only, you can download Phoenix’s 2005 release, United, for only $1.99 on Amazon.
The Strong Buzz reminds us: It’s winter! Eat oysters!
Walking Off the Big Apple has an exhaustive list of musical celebrations for the holidays — and more good stuff on NYC films you can queue up for your next winter afternoon off work.
And finally …
WFMU’s DJs are churning out their own yearly “best of” lists, always of major source for what I’ll be listening to next year.
Do you have other NYC holiday resources we should know about? Feel free to leave links in the comments section.
A reminder about the DBA holiday craft fair in the East Village this afternoon. Stop by and say hi — I’ll be the guy in the back with a baby and a beer, near the table with Chex mix and homemade truffles for sale. (The entrepreneurial ladies in my family went for foodstuffs this year rather than arts and crafts.)
Meanwhile, enjoy the second day of Hanukkah — though it’s bitter enough outside that you may wish you were elsewhere:
(h/t Knickerbocker Village)
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