by Bryan Waterman | Oct 19, 2011 | City on Stage, Writing New York
Today’s reading for vWNY is Benjamin Baker’s 1848 play A Glance at New York, best known for introducing NYC’s homegrown folk hero, Mose the Bowery B’hoy, to the American stage. The full text doesn’t seem to be available online, but you...
by Bryan Waterman | May 3, 2011 | Architecture |
Top image (The Bowery in the 1860s, looking south from Cooper Square) via NYPL. Photo of scaffolding on 35 Cooper Sq. and final image, below, via EV Grieve. As Grieve, Jeremiah, and Local East Village have all reported, there will be no reprieve for 35 Cooper Square,...
by Bryan Waterman | Jul 27, 2010 | Art, Neighborhood Scenes
Obscene NYC prepared the stage-by-stage “visual history of Shepard Fairey
by Bryan Waterman | Jun 29, 2010 | Art, Out and About |
OK, I’m not exactly inciting our readers to vandalism of gallery-sponsored graffiti, but like EV Grieve and Bowery Boogie I’ve been keeping an eye on the ongoing destruction of the Shepard Fairey wall of shame at Bowery and Houston. It really is a...
by Bryan Waterman | Feb 17, 2010 | History, Writing New York
The aim of this morning’s lecture in Writing New York was to situate Walt Whitman’s 1855 Leaves of Grass within the nineteenth-century city’s worlds of print, from the highbrow publishing industry to cheap print, penny presses, flash weeklies, and...
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