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The Bowery Boys take us on a tour of Roosevelt Island, past and present, with their latest podcast. [Bowery Boys]
My favorite band, considered by many to be Brooklyn’s finest, is featured in both New York Magazine and The New Yorker this week. The latter article’s the smarter one. [NYM, New Yorker]
New community TV show takes on Staten Island history. [SILive]
Bygone Lefty Utopians of the Bronx [Bronx Bohemian]
Cow escapes Queens slaughterhouse, earns permanent freedom. [City Room; Queens Crap]
Tags: outer boroughs
Beloved half-century-old ice cream parlor in Bellerose, Queens, torn down to make room for controversial, as yet unapproved, hotel. Workers take out the neighbor’s bushes while they’re at it. [Queens Crap]
A podcast on the remaking of The Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3 [City Room, via BoogieDowner]
Greenpointers! Don’t let the recession deprive you of your regular Brazilian waxing! [Unemployed Brooklyn]
Whimsical wooden sunbeams in St. George [Walking Is Transportation]
p.s. Anyone out there know of some other Staten Island blogs?
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On public art in Queens: An excerpt from Public Art New York, by architect Jean Parker Phifer and photographer Francis Dzikowski [Newyorkology]
Coke with that slice? DEA busts drug-dealing pizza parlor in the Bronx. [Animal]
A guide to Boerum Hill [Lost City]
Images of America publishes new volume on St. George, Staten Island. Plus: “town” or “neighborhood”? [Walking Is Transportation]
The making of Manhattanville: What will be lost when Columbia expands? [Manhattanville.net, via an older post on JVNY]
Bonus: From my own back yard — if you haven’t seen Jon Kessler’s amazing installation “Kessler’s Circus” at Deitch Projects (76 Grand Street) you’ve only got through tomorrow. Here’s an older VBS.TV documentary series on Kessler, set in his long-time Williamsburg studio, that should give you a feel for the work.
Image from Newyorkology:
Flight
James Brooks, Artist, 1938-40
Collection of the City of New York
Marine Air Terminal
Delano & Aldrich, Architects, 1937-40; Restoration by Beyer Blinder Belle, Architects, 1995-6
West end of LaGuardia Airport, Flushing
Tags: kessler, outer boroughs, public art
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