November 2010
27 posts
WatchOn Melancholy Hill - NYC Lights (by Chateau Bezerra)
“A comparison of current and historical photographs makes a convincing case for...”
– Here’s a Surprise for Underground Art Lovers: Handcuffs - NYTimes.com
“Shteyngart says the first thing that happened when he bought an iPhone “was that...”
– n+1: Sad as Hell
“New York — a city more at home in the world than in its home country — may do...”
– Tony Judt, who died in August, was the director of the Remarque Institute at New York University.
My Endless New York - NYTimes.com
(via katykelley)
“I started doing stand-up because I don’t have any skills; I don’t...”
– Thirty-Five Highlights From Zach Galifianakis’s Never-Ending Press Tour — Vulture
“In New York, you collect a thousand encounters a year, a passel of handshakes, a...”
– What My Mover Means to Me - NYTimes.com
“26. Smart people are the norm, not the exception. (Which doesn’t mean they’re...”
– 50 Reasons to Be Pretty Damn Euphoric You Live in New York City - New York News - Runnin’ Scared
on the eve of returning from a fairly epic californian vacation, i must read things like this to remind, oh to remind. (via madeleinepascal)
October 2010
45 posts
“Maybe we become New Yorkers the day we realize that New York will go on without...”
– Colson Whitehead, The Colossus of New York (via villagevoice)
“In America, there is New York, San Francisco and New Orleans and everywhere else...”
– Mark Twain (via laureninneworleans)
BlackBook: NYC’s Best Kept Brunch Secret: The DIY... →
bbook:
One of the best-kept brunch secrets in all of New York has to be Double Crown’s self-serve Bloody Mary spread. I’ll cop to never really noticing Double Crown before, even though it’s one of the better looking rooms downtown and occupies a spot on the Bowery (about a block north of…
“The dirty little secret about Greenpoint is that it is ridiculed to no end in...”
– Young Manhattanite
WatchWelcome to Greenpoint - TEASER (by I AM PICTURES)
WatchThe Best Thing I Ever Done HQ (by MargaretEmily MacKenzie)
660 Miles, 468 Stations, 106 Years: Images of the... →
On New York
homeofthevain:
I never had intimate friends, and the few who came close are in New York. By which I mean they’re dead, because that’s where I suppose condemned souls go in order not to endure the truth of their past lives.
— Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores
“It’s noticeably more touristy and people are more tech-savvy. I remember...”
– Cary Conover via EV Grieve: The photography of Cary Conover
