by Cyrus Patell | Mar 3, 2011 | Lost New York
Carmen Nigro, a librarian at the New York Public Library’s Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, has an interesting blog post on the history of the term “Gotham”: “So, why do we call it Gotham anyway?”...
by Bryan Waterman | Nov 3, 2010 | Lost New York, Signs of the Times |
Anyone who’s ever had the good fortune to dance the night away to Ruby’s jukebox after a day at the beach will be saddened to learn — if they haven’t already heard — that Thor Equities has given the beloved boardwalk dive just two weeks...
by Cyrus Patell | Jun 16, 2010 | Architecture, Lost New York, Music
David Byrne gave a TED Talk last February, which has now been posted online. TED is a
by Cyrus Patell | Jun 8, 2010 | Architecture, Lost New York, Writing New York
Author David Freeland visited our Faculty Resource Seminar today and offered us a glimpse of the city as it appears to him: as a palimpsest with layers of meaning waiting to be rediscovered if one knows where to look and what to look for. He took us through sites that...
by Cyrus Patell | Jun 7, 2010 | Lost New York, Teaching, Writing New York
Bryan and I began our third seminar for NYU’s Faculty Resource Network, which sponsors a variety of week-long programs each summer for faculty from affiliated colleges around the country. The subject of our seminar this year is “Lost New York”: Has...
by Cyrus Patell | Feb 13, 2010 | Art, Books, History, Lost New York |
In my last post, I mentioned that older son loves to read series of books — the longer the better. Before he read the Percy Jackson series, he read all of Mary Pope Osborne’s Magic Tree House books. He’ll still read the latest one for old...
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