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Ellis Island 1974 and now
As teenagers in 1974 Phil Buehler and Steve Siegel rowed out to explore the ruins of Ellis Island. They made a film (NY Times gift link), one of the first picks for the NY Times OpDocs “Encore” series. The filmmaker-photographers reflect on the symbolic power of Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty, as they revisit the ruins that remain and the restored main Registry hall that now draws millions of tourists a year. [more inside]
The deal is he's not as relevant
Jerry Seinfeld is a Lazy Hack Out of Touch with the Real World - and Who Can Blame Him? Paste Magazine's brief riposte to the New Yorker's Jerry Seinfeld interview in which Mr. It's About Nothing feels that comedy has been killed by "the extreme left" and "P.C. crap."
Have you heard of Dick Turpin?
I don't know if you've seen The Completely Made Up Adventures Of Dick Turpin, but you've maybe seen Noel Fielding on Bake-Off. Here is a conversation with Fielding, show producer Kenton Allen, and Vulture's Jesse David Fox: Apple TV+’s The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin: Noel Fielding and Kenton Allen [51m].
'Yeah, that's my mosaic.'
"Last of all comes the pavement trodden by imperial feet, made of disks of porphyry and serpentine, not thicker than a silver dollar, framed in in segments and lines of enamel, white and gold, white and red, or white, red, and green. The colors are perfectly brilliant. Fancy the deck of a modern yacht inlayed in enamel." from Roman Emperor Caligula's coffee table [CBS]
"This is America, and it's playing out like America."
Legal weed in New York was going to be a revolution. What happened? (Jia Tolentino for The New Yorker (archive.is)) [more inside]
New York is not just NYC
New York State isn't just The Big Apple and far-right extremist groups are common in many rural areas. North Country Public Radio takes a look at the various extremist groups that are thriving in areas far the the NYC metro area. This story is part of their podcast on far-right extremism called 'If All Else Fails.'
Vineyard Wind is live
Electricity from the country’s first large-scale offshore wind project is officially flowing into Massachusetts and helping to power the New England grid. The Vineyard Wind project achieved “first power” late Tuesday when one operating turbine near Martha’s Vineyard delivered approximately five megawatts of electricity to the grid. The company said it expects to have five turbines operating at full capacity in early 2024. [more inside]
“Are you talking to me?”
Martin Scorsese interviewed by Edgar Wright at the BFI London Film Festival - (single link YouTube, 1h35m)
New York Has a Soft Spot for Fabulists and Operators
Perhaps, in this era of impostor syndrome, everyone feels like they’re pretending to be someone other than themselves. So the real artistes of the medium, the ones who go all the way—they fascinate us. from Kyle Deschanel, the Rothschild Who Wasn’t [Vanity Fair; ungated] [more inside]
I hope that someone gets my
72 years ago in Iowa, a worker named Mary Foss wrote a message onto an egg. She put the egg into a carton and sent the carton out for distribution. Last month, someone responded.
Eric Adams's Administration of Bluster
The Mayor of New York City tells a personal story that is compelling and often untruthful. With a thin list of accomplishments so far, can he address the city’s problems? [original link]
It's Where I Want to Be!
No American who came of age in the nineteen-eighties — or in most of the seventies or nineties, for that matter — could pretend not to understand the importance of the mall ... Introduced as “A SAFARI TO STUDY MALL CULTURE,” Mall City consists of interviews conducted by Hugh Kinniburgh and his NYU Film School collaborators during one day in 1983 at the Roosevelt Field Mall on Long Island. Unsurprisingly, their interviewees tend to be young, strenuously coiffed, and dressed with studied nonchalance in striped T-shirts and Members Only-style windbreakers. from Open Culture [more inside]
So much for the post-apocalyptic air purfier helmet
What it’s like to wear the Dyson Zone around an NYC covered in wildfire smoke "A quick note: I don’t recommend anyone strap on a futuristic pair of headphones that double as a wearable air purifier and stride out into hazardous conditions."
That Fucking Guy ordered to pay E. Jean Carroll $5MM
New York Jewish Conversational Style
New York Jewish Conversational Style (17-page pdf, 1981)
equity, licensing, and headaches
Cannabis has been legalized in New York State, and legal dispensaries could have opened starting nearly a year ago. Yet there are only five legal dispensaries in the whole state. "Meanwhile, about 1,500 smoke shops are selling cannabis illegally in New York City alone, city officials estimate." "Why Can’t Legal Cannabis Sellers Open Shops?" asks the nonprofit news org THE CITY. (Slow, confusing bureaucracy is the short answer.) More coverage.
No Availability
The 1846 Attempt to Enfranchise African-Americans and Poor Whites in NY
One of John Brown's funders gave 3,000 land grants so that the recipients could qualify to vote. The New York State Archives has a copy of a ledger showing transactions from Gerrit Smith, an abolitionist and among the wealthiest people in New York. The effort was, in part, to enable the recipients to meet the state's property requirement for voting. The Albany Times-Union has a story about the ledger and Smith.
Is New York Turning Into Los Angeles?
Quintessentially Californian institutions are popping up all over Manhattan as New Yorkers embrace sound baths, mocktails and legal marijuana. [more inside]
For a While Everything Was Golden
Yet something did survive. In the deepest reaches of a closet was a stack of boxes packed by Eve’s mother decades before. The boxes were pristine, the seals of duct tape unbroken. Inside: journals, photos, scrapbooks, manuscripts, and letters. No, inside a lost world. This world turned for a certain number of years in the late ’60s and early ’70s, and was centered in a two-story rental in a down-at-heel section of L.A. The Franklin Avenue scene, I call it for reasons that will become apparent. And it had all the explosive vitality that the scene at Les Deux Magots on the Left Bank had for Ernest Hemingway and his fellow Lost boys. It was the making of one great American writer, the breaking and then the remaking—and thus the true making—of another. These two writers were friends. Enemies as well. They were also women, a fact fundamental rather than incidental... from Joan Didion and Eve Babitz Shared an Unlikely, Uneasy Friendship—One That Shaped Their Worlds and Work Forever by Lili Anolik [ungated] [more inside]
Who is George Santos?
New congressmember-elect (R-NY, Long Island) George Santos's resume seems to be fictional (NYTimes) [more inside]
Tropical marsh bird found lost in New York state
The limpkin, a tropical marsh bird commonly found inhabiting Louisiana and Florida, was recently spotted for the first time in New York state. The lone bird was filmed along the Niagara River in Lewiston, and later captured by wildlife specialists to be relocated back South. More details on the case available from regular citizens in the Google Group community forum Geneseebirds. For more information on limpkins, listen to BirdNote or read an overview on the Audubon website.
SimCityist, McCentury Modern, fast-casual architecture
A classic 5-over-1: retail on the ground floor, topped with several stories of apartments one wouldn’t want to be able to afford. The words THE JOSH have been appended to the canopy above the main entrance in a passionless font.Why Is Everything So Ugly?
The 33 Coolest Streets in the World, according to TimeOut respondents
Street life is what makes the places we live feel alive. From grand avenues and shopping strips to pedestrianised backstreets and leafy squares, these streets are manageable microcosms of the world’s most exciting cities – each one chock-full of independent businesses, creative humans and everything else that makes urban life brilliant. Ready to take a stroll?
TimeOut asked more than 20,000 people the question: what’s the coolest street in your city?
Boston Corners, The Naughty Town That Massachusetts Lost to New York
once more unto the breach
Tinder Hearted: How did a dating app become my longest running relationship? After nearly a decade of online dating, Allison P. Davis takes stock at New York Magazine's The Cut.
New York Antiquities Theft Task Force
The best photos to come out of the Met Gala every year are always the ones where you feel like a voyeur. It’s a weird combination of intimacy, celebrity, modernity, and antiquity that’s hard to replicate and harder, I think, to ignore. Hannah Barbosa Cesnik writes in Anne Helen Petersen's Culture Study Guest Interviews series: Inside the Mind-Boggling World of the Antiquities Theft Task Force.
I VOTED
Happy the Elephant is not a person in New York
By a 5-to-2 vote, the Court of Appeals rejected [NY Times] an animal-advocacy organization’s habeus corpus argument that Happy was being illegally detained at the zoo and should be transferred to a more natural environment. [more inside]
In “Russian Doll,” Natasha Lyonne Barrels Into the Past
How the actress turned showrunner took on inherited trauma through time travel. [Spoilers for season 1 of Russian Doll] [New Yorker / Archive]
Universal Gotham
“There is no definitive Gotham,” says Barbara Ling, the production designer on Batman Forever and Batman & Robin. “The excitement is reinventing with each new vision.” from Designing Gotham [The Ringer]
They went to a big World's Fair in the country with lots of room to play
What happens to all the stuff after a World's Fair? It's a question I hadn't really asked myself before, but After The Fair: The Legacy Of The 1964-65 NY World's Fair [1h41m] is a documentary (apparently from 2020) that gives a brief history of that famous World's Fair and then details what happened to various pavilions, entertainments, and other bits since the Fair closed. Delightful and informative in ways I was neither asking for nor expecting, If you like this kind of thing, you will LIKE this one.
I have a soft spot for this kinda food. It's right below the stent.
All Praise the St. Louis Bagel and Its Infinite Potential The infamous, vertically sliced St. Louis bagel is not an abomination—it’s a brand-new playing field for a brand-freaking-new game.
Mr. Roosevelt Goes to North Dakota
Over 18 months of discussion and planning, the racist statue of Theodore Roosevelt at the entrance to the American Museum of National History has finally been removed. The statue will be re-contextualized at the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, North Dakota, set to open in 2026. [more inside]
But We Can Talk Details Later
Here We Have A Perfectly Nice Slice Of 32nd Street, Between 2nd And 3rd Ave. According To Present Day Google Maps, This Block Has A Dunkin, A Starbucks, And A Comic Book Store, As Well As Manhattan PS 116.
Now, With The Block-For-Block Program, This Charming Parcel Could Be Exchanged With A Lot Of Equivalent Size In Eastern Utah, Specifically The Area Of Arches National Park. Of Course, There’s A Bit Of Infrastructure Work To Do In Order To Account For A Substantial Difference In Topography, But We Can Talk Details Later.
Now, With The Block-For-Block Program, This Charming Parcel Could Be Exchanged With A Lot Of Equivalent Size In Eastern Utah, Specifically The Area Of Arches National Park. Of Course, There’s A Bit Of Infrastructure Work To Do In Order To Account For A Substantial Difference In Topography, But We Can Talk Details Later.
What does a bagel call its grandfather? Poppy!
How Many Bagels Does It Take to Keep a Place in Business? - The NYTimes talks to Montreal's St. Viateur and NYC's Ess-a-Bagel about keeping the dough coming in and sending the dough out
Worth meeting: poet and author Saeed Jones
SAEED JONES is our guest on this edition of VERY FINE DAY. Saeed is a writer and poet who has won numerous awards for his work. His memoir, “How We Fight For Our Lives” is both brutally real and pure while also carrying itself in some kind of way. That’s really the easiest explanation I can give you. Saeed writes in some kind of way. It just works. It seems easy. It’s not. It wasn’t. And we certainly talk about that in our conversation. But still, there’s a certain kind of beauty in all that. [more inside]
A horror house of abuse and neglect
"I want to share more about what I witnessed at Rikers Island yesterday." I just returned from Rikers Island where a group of elected officials exercised our legal right to inspect correctional facilities. What I witnessed was a humanitarian crisis. A horror house of abuse and neglect....my message is simple: decarcerate. [more inside]
Wastin' Away Again on 7th Avenue
"[T]he whole ethos behind the resort is acknowledging that work sucks and no one wants to do it, but that ethos can only thrive in relation to work. If work didn’t suck, no one would be there. [...] I thought of what Margaritaville might look like if we acknowledged we had enough resources to go around, that no one has to work as hard as they do for as little as they get. What would a vacation, a nice meal, or a rooftop cocktail look like if it didn’t have to carry so much weight?" Jaya Saxena writes about the Times Square Margaritaville resort for Eater.
@thetrashwalker
The woman who rifles through New York’s garbage – exposing the city’s excesses (The Guardian) – Anna Sacks documents her ‘trash walks’ on social media, shining a light on the everyday shame and indignity of producing and living with so much waste
These Are the Workers Who Kept New York Alive in Its Darkest Months
NYC’s Street Trees
For the data-loving dendrophiles, NYC Parks has mapped every streetside tree in the city. [more inside]
Entrapment, Discrimination, Censorship. But...
Buffalo News brings you The struggles of Buffalo’s gay community through the '70s But... [more inside]
Savvy flash patter?
If shaps, kicksies and pickle-tubs make perfect sense to you, you don't need this link. Otherwise, The Rogue's Lexicon has you covered. [more inside]
This will be on the AP Cat History exam
Room 8. Felicette. Orangey. And before there were bodega cats, there were post office cats: In 1904, the New York Times reported that George W. Cook, “the only Superintendent of Federal Cats in this country,” gave a party for 60 post office cats in honor of his own 81st birthday. [more inside]
"I glanced back one more time, and that's when I noticed his legs moved"
Danny Stewart, 34, was late for dinner with his partner, Pete Mercurio, 32. The couple had met three years earlier through a friend in Pete's softball team. Later Danny had moved in with Pete and his flatmate, but on this summer evening he had been back to his sublet apartment in Harlem to pick up the post. As Danny was hurrying out of the station something caught his eye. "I noticed on the floor tucked up against the wall, what I thought was a baby doll," he says.– 'We found a baby on the subway - now he's our son' by Lucy Wallis. BBC Outlook episode on this story.
I Wish They All Could Be California Bagels
The Best Bagels Are in California (Sorry, New York)
West Coast bakers are driving a great bagel boom, producing some of the most delicious versions around and finding ways to expand during the pandemic. (SLNYT)
The Indignities and Mediocrity of Brute White Patriarchy
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is under investigation by his own Attorney General and is facing possible impeachment for two colliding scandals: mounting allegations of sexual misconduct, and allegations that he deliberately under-reported COVID-related nursing home deaths. Today, New York Magazine published a lengthy, exhaustively researched, and incredibly damning exposé about the toxic culture of Cuomo's Albany. Despite calls for his resignation from a majority of state lawmakers and New York’s Congressional delegation, Cuomo says he's not going anywhere.
Bad Birds in Quarantine
'The chestnut-bellied seed finch, known in Guyana as the towa-towa, is at the center of a lucrative underground trade that culminates in Queens, New York, where immigrant Guyanese men engage the birds in elaborate, secretive competitions.' [CW: animal abuse]
“I really like parties, because parties are supposed to be fun”
Pretend It’s a City (Netflix) is a seven-part documentary directed by Martin Scorsese featuring New York author and humorist Fran Lebowitz. Naomi Fry: “The show’s only through line is Lebowitz herself, whose slapdash history of New York City is mostly just an occasion to riff. Scorsese’s role is largely limited to explosions of laughter, often heard off camera, and fretful interjections,” (The New Yorker); Carrie Wittmer on the twelve best bits in the show (Vulture).