Maid Café's are a type of Japanese cosplay restaurant where the waitresses dress up in maid costumes, call patrons "Master", and are encouraged to be flirty, bubbly and laugh a lot. While…
Our friends over at Bedford + Bowery recently hit up New Yorker's in Washington Square Park to see if they would eat perfectly safe insects, some cooked, some raw, all seasoned and…
Because there isn't much else to watch at a Knicks game, ticket holders have been getting more and more entertainment from the stands rather than the court. During a recent game, this girl…
Madonna has been making headlines and selling out stadiums for decades, but she wasn't always that big. Check out this vintage video of her performing at the Danceteria in Hell's Kitchen…
Local blogger Flaming Pablum recently came across this post on the NYC 1950 to Present Facebook page where the original poster, Jay Singer, describes the video: The south platform at Bowery…
If you can get past the inexplicably 80's music from this 2003 video, there is some amazing video footage of the High Line park before it was a park. There is some amazing graffiti,…
Most people that have been in Union Square know the big neon sign of Coffee Shop, a longtime neighborhood diner. What you probably didn't know is tucked in the back of the restaurant is the…
The Atlantic posted an article this morning entitled Skipping the 13th Floor about how we assign so much meaning to numbers that our superstition affects infrastructure design. Local housing…
The Statue of Liberty is such a symbol of Americana, that often we forget it was cast, assembled and built in Paris years before it was disassembled, shipped across the Atlantic and…
HARBS is a popular Japanese cake shop, bakery and tea house chain in Japan. You may be thinking "a cake is a cake", but the Japanese style-cakes are known for being lighter and fluffier than…
