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Shake Shack, Theater District
Find Out Which New York City Restaurants Used To Be Raunchy Sex Clubs
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Dead Ringer, a Fantastic Short Film Paying Homage To New York City's Forgotten Pay Phones
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Steven Hirsch, Beautiful Photography of Disgusting Pollution | BK Stories
Meet Steven Hirsh, a Photographer Capturing the Beauty of Toxic Gowanus Canal Pollution
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Dec. 18, 1969: A neglected block in Brownsville, Brooklyn, where a nationwide Model Cities program — which aimed to bring a holistic improvement regimen to selected neighborhoods in 52 cities — was seen as stumbling. “Half of the program’s first year is gone,” The Times reported, “but only $7.7 million of the year’s allocation of $29 million in Federal funds have been spent.” The mayor blamed a heavy-footed city bureaucracy. “The mood is typified by Prospect Place in Brownsville, flanked by desolate acres of rubble-strewn lots,” the story read. “Rotted tenements have been torn down, but almost nothing is being built because contractors’ bids have come in above the per-room cost ceilings permitted by Congress for Federal projects.”
Vintage Photograph of a Neglected Block in Brownsville, Brooklyn Back in 1969
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"Vinyl" Production Designer Bill Groom on Recreating 1970s New York City for Hit HBO Show
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Bushwick Brooklyn (70s)
Vintage Film Show Bushwick Gangs and Brooklyn's 83rd Precinct in the 1970s
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Union Square, 1893
View 14th Street at Union Square From the Same Angle in Three Different Centries
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West Village Corrugated Can at Anthropologie
Anthropologie is Now Selling a Rusty $99 "West Village" Trash Can
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Liberty Island, 1974. A graffiti artist tags the Statue of Liberty, which had fallen into disrepair after being targeted for demolition by contractors aiming to replace Lady Liberty with a forty-eight-foot-wide highway.
New Yorker Cartoons Satirize Old New York
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Dr. Jonathan Zizmor Retires and Closes NYC Office
Iconic Long-Time NYC Subway Advertiser Dr. Zizmor Retires and Pulls All Ads
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