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UWS activist concerned about architecture, transport, quality of life--and these days that means helicopters!
New York City
Joined May 2010
Gotta love this--especially the hat.
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Are you sure this is the 1980s? I thought Liberty's crown was closed to visitors in late 1970s.
Tourists crowd inside the crown of the Statue of Liberty, 1980s
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Why we live in New York!
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"Hey, Trotsky, you're in advertising."
this remains one of my favorite exchanges in all of TV. Peggy and Roger only have a few scenes together throughout the show but every one is golden.
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You can only get away with this if you're incredibly beautiful.
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It looks like the school district had actually made an effort.
Lunch room mayhem; the cafeteria of an abandoned middle school in Gary, Indiana.
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Of course, Harry Lime (Orson Welles) was unquestionably a bad guy (watering penicillin) but Johnny McQueen, James Mason's character, is more ambiguous, making the chase more diabolical.
The nighttime pursuit that concludes THE THIRD MAN is the most famous sequence Carol Reed ever shot. His ODD MAN OUT (1947), made two years earlier, is essentially that same brilliant chase extended to feature length. A must-watch tonight on NoirAlley. #TCMParty
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What it is with the Irish giants and cheekbones? Heaney here but also Beckett, Joyce, Yeats, more . . .
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Late in Bing Crosby's life, his nephew Howard asked him a casual question while they were out playing golf together. "What was the single most difficult thing you ever had to do in your career?" Howard expected Hollywood stories. Maybe gossip about a demanding director. Perhaps
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Everyone wants to be Coast Guard until it's time to do Coast Guard things.
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A perfect capturing of nyc in the 70s
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Betsy Smith earns a million dollar salary as @CentralParkNYC CEO, but a team of horse carriage drivers were forced to spend hours clearing ice/snow from their stands so @nycHealthy would lift thier weather suspension @NYCMayorsOffice corruptly tried to keep in place!
Plows are deliberately avoiding horse carriage stands, seemingly at @NYCMayorsOffice request to intentionally hurt the horse carriage industry during the busy season with an excuse to keep them suspended. I smell a lawsuit. @TwuSamuelsen @NYCCouncil @JulieMenin @ZohranKMamdani
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Nothing common about that magnificent raven (or your photo)!
A common raven braved yesterday afternoon's winds to strike a characteristic pose atop a water tower at Broadway and 110th. #birdcpp
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Let's say a little prayer for nyc's lost Penn Station, once again memorialized in @NYBG's extraordinary Holiday Train Show. How could city officials have allowed the beautiful Penn Station to be destroyed? via @UntappedNY
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Thank God the El Dorado building on the Upper West Side was constructed before the state capped density in the city in 1961. Strolling through Central Park on a wintery day wouldn't be the same without this Art Deco masterpiece peeping over snow-covered trees.
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Now that's how to hail a taxi--cigarette in hand, gorgeous coat, commanding stance
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How is that even possible? Especially with that heavy camera?
Oscar Graubner #photography Photographer Margaret Bourke-White taking a photo from the top of a Building in 1935.
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Scrappy little fellow & astonishingly fast.
A fox terrier name Milou jumped on the race track near Bordeaux, France, 1972
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“NYCLASS has continuously and maliciously intentionally used falsehoods and misrepresentations to injure and destroy the horse carriage industry and the carriage workers represented by TWU,” the suit reads.
Transport Workers Union sues group trying to ban Central Park carriage horses
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