Explore What's Left of Manhattan's Little Italy; Riding the Citi Bike "Barnaclebike"; Queens Film Festival Details

Little Italy, Manhattan
Little Italy, Manhattan
Photo: nick.amoscato

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.

  • 6sqft ⇒ Thousands of Soviet Espionage Artifacts on View at Chelsea's New KGB Museum
  • Bedford + Bowery ⇒ NYC Comedian Recounts Her Time as a ‘Massage Parlor Madam’
  • Bklyner ⇒ Man Steals and Trashes Statue From Park Slope Church
  • Brokelyn ⇒ Brooklyn Fiction: Mantis by Cara Dempsey
  • Brooklyn Paper ⇒ Beauty and Brains: Drag Queen Hosts Makeup Class for Tweens at Ditmas Park Library
  • Chopsticks & Marrow ⇒ Watch an Epic Late Night Crawl of Middle Eastern Astoria
  • Curbed NY ⇒ Gowanus Station Building’s Facade Will Be Saved in New Superfund Facility
  • Daytonian in Manhattan ⇒ Neville & Bagge's 1916 325 West End Avenue
  • Forbes ⇒ New York Botanical Garden Orchid Show Inspired by Singapore
  • Gothamist ⇒ This Mysterious Citi Bike Covered in Barnacles & Shells Must Have Some Stories to Tell
  • NY City Lens ⇒ Whose Bike Lane Is It? The City's Delivery vs. Safety Dilemma
  • New York YIMBY ⇒ 220 Central Park South's Exterior Mechanical Elevator Coming Down, in Midtown
  • QNS.com ⇒ More Than 200 Films Will Screen in Astoria During the Queens World Film Festival in March
  • The Villager ⇒ Get Ripped (hand-Ripped Noodles) at Xi’an
  • TheDustyRebel ⇒ Trump Tower, Luxury Living for the Morally Bankrupt
  • Thrillist ⇒ How to Find Old New York in Manhattan’s Vanishing Little Italy

Vintage Aerial Photograph Shows Midtown Manhattan Cityscape in 1978

Aerial view looking northeast of Midtown Manhattan. March, 1978.
Aerial view looking northeast of Midtown Manhattan. March, 1978.

The Rockefeller Center area and Times Square’s skyscrapers are at center, and Citicorp Center are visible at top. The Madison Square Garden, One and Two Penn Plaza buildings; the Empire State Building, Grand Central district’s buildings and the United Nations are visible at right.

Join the 1st Annual New York City Cookie Crawl This Saturday

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Redditor LadyFixIt has a passion for cookies and has organized what she is calling the 1st Annual NYC Cookie Crawl this Saturday, March 2nd. The crawl includes 22 stops on the Upper West Side and a dozen neighborhoods in Manhattan south of 59th Street. Here are the details:

Why? I like cookies. An obscene amount. They're my kryptonite. I do happen to know that there are other red-blooded denizens of NYC for whom cookies is also a love language. Thus.... the Cookie Crawl!

What? Well, it's, me, you, all of our friends-- and Manhattan's best cookie spots (as sourced by me). Some I've been to personally, some were suggested by friends who've been, and some were just passed by on my travels with one vow: to one day visit and consume their cookies!
Caveat -- You don't HAVE to buy or eat cookies everywhere we go. Please, be as selective as you'd like! At some point, we will probably stop for dinner and drinks too. So save room!

Where? We're gonna start the crawl uptown at Mille-feuille Bakery, next to the 79th Street Station.

When? March 2nd at 2pm! Please be as prompt as possible so we can all head out together!