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gallery js This year OHNY opened up the doors to the gorgeous TWA building at JFK Airport, a mid-century time capsule that sits abandoned across from Terminal 5. Over there, you’re reminded of a time when air travel had a bit of dignity and elegance. You could sit down at a sleek bar and drink…
Anti-police brutality activists in New York City took a trip to a gentrified neighborhood on October 18 to catch white people freely committing the type of crimes that get black and brown people regularly harassed by cops. The group that organized the action, the Police Reform Organizing Project, or PROP, took to the streets of…
gallery js Next Tuesday evening at Cooper Union, some of the titans of New York City subway map design will convene alongside map aficionados to talk shop. The setting is auspicious, as back in 1978 Cooper Union hosted the Great Subway Map Debate, a showdown between backers of Massimo Vignelli’s sleek-but-disorienting subway diagram and supporters,…
gallery js end gallery js start of gallery code fullscreen Back in June, the pumpkin carving process began for New York’s most intense pumpkin fest, The Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze at Van Cortlandt Manor in Croton-On-Hudson. The spectacular display features thousands (somewhere around 10,000 this year) of illuminated pumpkins, all carved by a small team…
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio took aim at Uber this summer, trying (and failing) to set a cap on the number of its for-hire cars operating in the city. The ride-share service has drawn criticism on a number of issues — including its labor practices — but the mayor said his main concern…
The new owner of the Village Voice is keen to invest in the storied New York City weekly newspaper, he told Billy Penn on the afternoon that news broke of his acquisition. Peter T. Barbey, the 57-year-old CEO of the Reading Eagle Company, said his plans are to add staff until the weekly is “as…
paging_filter The Village Voice has been sold to a new owner, marking the beginning of the latest chapter in the history of the storied weekly newspaper co-founded by Norman Mailer in 1955. Voice Media Group announced Monday that it has sold its flagship title to a company controlled by investor Peter D. Barbey of the…
HEY, IT’S FRIDAY, LET’S GET DRUNK, LET’S GO TO THE BAR, LET’S DO AWESOME SHOOTERS AND SIT AROUND AND SOAK UP ONE ANOTHER’S AWESOMENESS, TGIF AMIRITE? Oh, huh. pic.twitter.com/9zipHDsv1J — Dave Price (@DavePriceTV) October 9, 2015 Indeed, an opening of the heavens beckons. The National Weather Service has issued a “Severe Thunderstorm Watch” that’s…
Right, the townhouse a developer paid two holdout tenants $25 million to leave. (Google Maps) Two tenants who refused to move out of their apartment in a 10th Avenue townhouse in Manhattan hit pay dirt last year when developer Tishman Speyer agreed to pay them $25 million to scram. The pair, Gary Schwedock, 58,…