The Scenic Spiral Wheel was a unique roller coaster installed in Coney Island's Luna Park back in 1917.

It was a 45 ton, 70 foot diameter steel wheel that was tipped towards its heavier side where it rested on its bottom edge. Roller coaster track spiraled around its outer rim from its top to its bottom. As the four car train circled the rim of the wheel, its weight changed the wheel's tilt so that the entire rig gyrated around like a top running low on spin. The train slowly spiraled down and covered 3200 feet of track in two and one half minutes. A second train with a separate admission climbed up to the top of the wheel, then descended through a long tunnel.

Apparently, the ride was not as exciting to ride as it was to watch, so it was shut down in 1921 after only 4 years.

Bon Appétit spends a day on the line with Chef Neel Kajale, the Chef de Cuisine at Adda, NYC’s most exciting new Indian restaurant. As the latest addition to the renowned Unapologetic Foods restaurant group–including Michelin-starred Semma–Adda is using bold flavors and techniques to reinvent classic Indian dishes such as butter chicken and Malvani fish curry.

00:00 Intro
00:48 Picking up fish
01:53 Morning check-in
03:53 Checking on prep
06:41 Making marinade
09:57 Business development meeting
11:35 Prepping expo station
13:15 Service

I recently saw someone worried about the death of the New York City accent, talking about how kids these days don't speak with an NYC accent even if they're from New York. But this born-and-bred New Yorker...didn't speak with a classic New York accent. Time to figure out what an accent even is, and reminisce about the classic New York accent, while looking at whether it's really DYING or just reinventing itself.