There is a lot of stuff going on the City, and we can't write about it all. Here are some interesting things some of our friends have written up lately.

• Bowery Boogie ⇒ Burned Out Black Seed Bagels Returns to Elizabeth Street on Thursday
• Brooklyn Based ⇒ Brooklyn Grange's Newest and Largest Rooftop Farm Points to a Greener New York
• Brooklyn Paper ⇒ Bed-Stuy Man Develops Slick Brooklyn-Focused App
• Curbed NY ⇒ What Does the Future Hold for Vision Zero in NYC?
• Daytonian in Manhattan ⇒ The Leander H. Crall Mansion - 16 West 76th Street
• Free Williamsburg ⇒ TASTE Williamsburg Greenpoint Is Returning in September
• Gothamist ⇒ 'Experience Lobster Rolls the Brooklyn Way' at New Fast-Casual Spot in Brooklyn
• Greenpointers ⇒ New Renderings of Domino Sugar Redevelopment Show Glass-Domed Design
• Harlem World Magazine ⇒ A Rare Photograph of Harlem Farmland at 5th Avenue NY 1858
• New York Times ⇒ Hate Those Floating Digital Billboards? New York Just Banned Them
• New York YIMBY ⇒ Stone Façade of Bjarke Ingels' the XI Seen Climbing Above Eleventh Avenue in Chelsea
• Thrillist ⇒ 10 Secret Hikes You Need to Take Near NYC
• Tribeca Citizen ⇒ Portrait of the Artist: Jennifer Elster
• Untapped Cities ⇒ The Abandoned Miller Air Field on Staten Island [Photos]
• Welcome2TheBronx ⇒ Top 10 Bronx Neighborhoods With Most Street Trees
• West Side Rag ⇒ Apple Store Door Appears to Melt in Furious Storm; ‘The Glass Pretty Much Folded’

Good evening! Wishing you a happy Tuesday, August 20th, 2019 from all of us at Viewing NYC!

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Joes Ades was a well-known street character in the the 1990s and 2000s on the streets of New York City. Better known as Mr. Peeler, Ades would sell one thing and one thing only: potato (and sometimes carrot) peelers.

For the better part of two decades — well into his 70s — Joe Ades followed the same routine. He’d get up early, typically before dawn, and get dressed in his $1,000 suit with high-end shirts and ties. He’d leave his Manhattan apartment (and, toward the end of his career, that was a three-bedroom one on Park Avenue) and make his way to work. Like his millionaire neighbors, Ades probably pulled down well north of $100,000 a year. But unlike his neighbors, he wasn’t off to a job on Wall Street or at any other typical six-figure income job. He was off to a street corner to sell $5 potato peelers.

Check out the accompanying article for more on Mr. Peeler.