And what, pray tell, is an automat?

by | Aug 13, 2009 | Books | 3 comments

Horn & Hardart Automat Cafeteria, 146 W. 38 St. between Broadway and 7th Ave. (1986) (Image from 14to42.net)David Freeland pulled in quite a crowd at the Tenement Museum the other night: standing room only in a room with no discernible air conditioning. I was a...

Times Square Thriller

by | Oct 31, 2008 | Events, Odds and Ends

25 years ago yesterday Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” debuted. Yesterday, 73 fans reenacted the dance at Madame Tussaud’s in Times Square in an attempt to break the Guinness record for the most people to do the dance at once. Local ABC report,...