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This must be the place. Untouched. American burger joint. YES! Amazing old schoolness and history abound in this video Prime Burger (a burger institution founded circa 1938).
(Source: Via YMFY)
Sophie Blackall’s Missed Connections graces the New York MTA Arts for Transit program.
I find on the train: subtle interactions, eccentricity, beauty, sorrow, secrets, kindness, generosity, excellent hairdos. Every sort of person imaginable and unimaginable. For this poster, I measured my allotted space very carefully and figured out I had enough space to draw 34 people. I had to whittle and whittle my list of favorite characters. The surfer standing with his board in a puddle of water didn’t make it. Neither did the gorgeous elderly drag queen, the man with the enormous orange velour armchair or the disheveled mermaids. I’m sorry. I still love you.
JOHAN ROSENMUNTHE cinematic series of shots called Enlargements weaves quite a narrative. What story or series of stories remains the mystery–yet we are the voyeur. Yes, seeing that nun is a bit Hitcockian and well, creepy without the bell tower.
Via It’s Nice That: It begins with one big shot of a Manhattan skyline before successively zooming, enlarging, and cropping different slices of the image, creating an eerie visual essay that leaves us wondering, among other things: “Is that nun going to jump?” Check out his website to see a multitude of equally fascinating photographic experiments.
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Hermann Bollmann, Map of NYC (1963)
(source: Penguinist)
The lost, intimate work of photographer Robert Frank. Uncovered, candid and perfect.
From The New York Times (Lens Blog): In 1958, the promotions department of The New York Times hired a young Swiss expat to take pictures that were collected in a slim hardcover book for prospective advertisers. The book, “New York Is,” extolled the virtues of the city and of the newspaper as the best way to tap its prosperous postwar consumers.
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I’m so utterly freaked out by the competition (see post below); I’m cementing this video of 1970′s New York; Taxi Driver style set to yes, Bernard Hermann’s music of doom (includes: Bleecker Luncheonette, World Trade Centers, Village Cigars, Shopsin’s General Story, Adults Only Times Square and yes old Taxi cabs …)
designboom reports on the upcoming event ‘I have seen the future‘, taking place friday, february 17th, 2012 at the MACRO contemporary art museum in rome. Architecture laboratory and magazine cityvision is to announce the opening of a call for proposals that explore the future of new york city in the ’new york cityvision competition‘.
the ‘coney island’ project, designed for the municipal arts society, shows an imaginative future concept of coney island amusement park in brooklyn, part of a community attempt to counter developer proposals to turn the area into a condominium park.
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Urban anthropologists Andy & Carolyn London interview some of New York City’s “more overlooked citizens”.
18 West 11th Street; the site of the Weatherman explosion. The New York Times recalls the blast:
Neither of the women had much on in the way of clothes as they ran out. One had apparently been taking a shower, and the other had been ironing. As the fire trucks pulled up, a neighbor let them in to clean up and gave them clothes. Then they left, coolly heading to the subway.
Before long, the details of the bomb-making emerged. “Shortly after that,” Mr. Lockwood recalled recently, “I started getting visits — one from the New York Fire Department and two from the F.B.I.” His friends at Princeton were nonchalant. The Federal Bureau of Investigation agents found him at his eating club. The second time they showed up, someone yelled, “Charlie, the F.B.I.’s here again.” read on
Worth as much time as the title suggests.
The New York Times on 54 Indiviuals. (through sounds and images)
The magic old piano Tom Hanks jumped on back in the Big era may have to pack up and find a new gig. Read specifics here.
The problem is, after whopping deals for Fifth Avenue flagships by Zara and Uniqlo, “fair market value” has increased dramatically. While the 60,000 square foot store has been at the GM Building since 1986, its previous location since 1931 was across 58th street in the space currently occupied by Bergdorf Goodman’s Men’s Store.
Wow, it’s entire era has passed FAO by as the other big box stores open and close. Apple opens. We are talking primo real estate here kids.
Toy Story 4 the revenge of FAO?
