by Bryan | Dec 1, 2010 | Art, Cultural History, People
For the second year running we’ve teamed up with a group of NYC-based bloggers to provide an eclectic holiday guide. Our entry follows. Check out our other participants’ entries as well: A Child Grows: Where to See Santa in New York City and Brooklyn...
by Bryan | Dec 1, 2009 | Books, Events, History, Neighborhood Scenes, Odds and Ends
We’re pleased to join with a group of other NYC blogs in a collaboratively produced 2009 holiday guide. See the bottom of this entry for links to participating sites. How about putting a little history in your holiday basket? Stephen Nissenbaum’s The...
by Bryan | Dec 24, 2008 | Odds and Ends
Broadcast in December 1948, and starring the same actors as the film from the previous year, a Lux Radio Theatre radio play of Miracle on 34th Street, in seven parts. Part the first:
by Bryan | Dec 23, 2008 | Neighborhood Scenes
One of my favorite moments in Ric Burns’s New York: A Documentary Film comes near the end of the episode on the fight over Robert Moses’s proposed Lower Manhattan Expressway, which would have cut a huge swath through the old Cast Iron District (now known...
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