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A guide to BBQing in uptown parks on the 4th [Uptown Flavor]
Miss Heather visits 5Pointz and takes snazzy photos! [New York Shitty]
Coney Island Talent Show: deadline to enter is July 16th [Kinetic Carnival]
4th of July weekend at New York Botanical Garden [Bronx Mama]
The Staten Island 4th of July Travis Parade is celebrating its centennial [travisparade.org]
Photo credit: “Scoops,” above, by Miss Heather.
Tags: 5Pointz, Bronx, Brooklyn, holidays, Queens, Staten Island, Uptown
The Bronx is up and the Battery’s down, though this regular Friday feature routinely ignores anything happening below 14th Street in Manhattan, since that’s where I spend 99% of my life. In fact, other than my morning runs across two bridges, I’m afraid to leave lower Manhattan without a sleeping bag and a toothbrush. I’m working on that.
Bushwick’s Masonic Temple is for sale. 18,000 square feet for a measly million. [Animal NY]
Visit Calvary Cemetery in Woodside with my favorite Queens blogger, Mitch Waxman [Newtown Pentacle]
Angel Franco’s riveting photos of the Bronx’s 46th precinct, 1979-84 [Lens Blog, via Bronx News Network]
Introducing Harlem’s first Pride weekend [Harlem Bespoke]
All about Snug Harbor w/ our new favorite Staten Island blog [Ape Shall Not Kill Ape]
Calvary Cemetery photo by Mitch Waxman.
Tags: Bronx, Brooklyn, Harlem, outer boroughs, Queens, Staten Island
Excursions real, virtual, and historical beyond the bounds of my downtown routines …
A guide to Brooklyn’s free summer film options [Brokelyn]
On Father’s Day: 3rd Annual LIC Bike Parade at Socrates Sculpture Park [We Heart Astoria]
Spending Father’s Day in the Bronx instead? Some ideas. [Bronx Mama]
A look back at Staten Island’s beach resorts and amusement parks of the early 20th century [Ape Shall Not Kill Ape]
Coming soon: relive the era of speakeasies at the Museum of the City of NY. [MCNY]
South Beach, S.I., Roller Boller Coaster postcard via Ape Shall Not Kill Ape.
Tags: Bronx, Brooklyn, museums, outer boroughs, Queens, Staten Island
What’s happening out there in this great city of ours? If it weren’t for the internet I probably wouldn’t know, because I don’t seem to get out of my neighborhood much.
Visit Salvatore of Soho … on Staten Island. [We Heart New York]
Gardening in Harlem with BroSis [Uptown Flavor]
Celebrating Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn, 1895; check out earlier entries on Kerouac in Brooklyn, too! [Who Walk in Brooklyn]
Canadians longing for LIC [Globe & Mail]
Starting Sunday the 6th, swing into summer w/ Latin Jazz and Salsa at Bronx Cemetery [Bronx Latino]
5Pointz photo via Globe and Mail.
Tags: 5Pointz, Bronx, Brooklyn, cemeteries, Harlem, outer boroughs, Queens, Staten Island
I think I will, actually, make it out of my neighborhood this weekend. There’s a show I hope to catch in Williamsburg on Saturday. So there — I’m not a lazy downtowner 100% of the time.
What else is going on in the Greater New York blogosphere?
Some are asking: Could the closed-off Harlem River High Bridge be uptown’s future High Line Park? [Harlem Bespoke]
Did Cinco de Mayo leave you wanting more Mexican food? Here’s a rundown on some options in Queens. [The Foodista]
Tickets are now on sale for Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival (July 5-10). [Brooklyn Bodega]
Coming even sooner … Bronx Week (May 12-23). [Norwood News]
Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, then and now. [Ape Shall Not Kill Ape]
Photo of Harlem River High Bridge from Harlem Bespoke.
Tags: Bronx, Brooklyn, Harlem, outer boroughs, Queens, Staten Island
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
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
As ususal, I’m spending my Friday below 14th Street in Manhattan. Hooray for the Internets!
Kevin Walsh heads out to Brighton Beach and Coney Island [Forgotten NY]
And we hear rumors that the new amusement park will be named after an old one [Amusing the Zillion]
Willing to brave the cold? Take a self-guided graffiti tour of Bushwick and East Williamsburg [offManhattan]
Late link to photos of a late lunch with Pale Male [Urban Hawks]
Sunday lecture: Kerouac in Queens [NYC Parks & Rec]
Worst neighborhood name in New York history? Linoleumville, Staten Island, though some commentators would vote for Flushing instead. [Ephemeral New York]
And finally: Video montage of burned-out Bronx cityscapes in the 70s and 80s [Welcome to Melrose; h/t BoogieDowner]
Tags: animals, Bronx, Brooklyn, coney island, graffiti, Queens, Staten Island
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