Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
It’s lit Last year, the Lonely Planet crowned Queens the top travel destination in the US. And yeah, sure, we were closely followed by Western South Dakota, but we reveled in the victory. Queens isn’t your typical front-runner like Manhattan. We’ve always been the silent hero type. A silent hero who houses the New York Mets, the US Open, the iconic unisphere in…
A very spring-like storm system is moving across the Great Lakes today and that will provide us with rain and possibly a thunderstorm early this afternoon. The low is centered over Lake Ontario and is dragging a cold front eastward across Pennsylvania and New Jersey this morning. The front looks like it will arrive here…
Big City By GINIA BELLAFANTE Late in the afternoon on St. Patrick’s Day, Glen Grays, a 27-year-old African-American mail carrier, was making his rounds in Crown Heights, in Brooklyn, about to leave a package at 999 President Street. Mr. Grays prides himself on getting to know the community he serves, he told me on Wednesday….
For many, the term “dumpster diving” evokes stomach-turning images of half-moldy rolls and recently-expired tuna salad snatched from the mouths of gnawing rats. But as many sophisticated urban survivalists know, there is an extraordinary amount of perfectly good, even gourmet, food set out every night in sanitary bags outside city delis, bakeries, restaurants, and supermarkets….
Via Yelp Williamsburg, the Meatpacking District of Brooklyn, now has its very own club-related sexual harassment lawsuit—a handful of employees at nightclub Verboten on North 11th Street are suing their employers, alleging that owner Jen Schiffer, her husband, and her boyfriend (yep) openly discussed their sex lives, barraged employees with sexual advances and, in…
A Human (Brandon Stanton, via Twitter) emerges from the mouth of Trump (Getty Images) Whatever you think about uplifting content producer Humans Of New York, there’s no doubt that it is a very popular, very influential tool for learning more about the colorful humans who live in NY. And head Human Brandon Stanton has…
New York City’s first 4DX theater is opening this month, according to a press release that triumphantly appeared in our inbox today—but what is 4DX, even? Is it IMAX? No. Is it 3-D? Not quite. In short, 4DX is “an immersive theater technology featuring moving seats and environmental effects.” The experience will bring wind, fog,…
About sixty-five miles east of New York City, in the southern part of the Long Island town of Brookhaven, there is a hamlet of around six thousand people called Yaphank. In Yaphank, there is a residential community called Siegfried Park, where the land is owned by a non-profit group called the German-American Settlement League. Siegfried…
Recently, the New York City Housing Authority sued St. Mark’s Bookshop, one of its tenants, on the ground floor of the First Houses, at 138 East 3rd Street, in the East Village, for more than $68,000 in back rent. According to court documents, NYCHA issued St. Mark’s its first rent demand on June 26th, 2015,…
(Port Authority) The Port Authority is very disappointed that the Port Authority went $2 billion over budget on the $4 billion World Trade Center Transit Hub. So when the Hub opens the first week of March, do you think that means “party time”? Some grateful words over continental breakfast? Weary smiles over Amstel Lights?…