This past week, 57-year old Arthur Mondella, the third generation owner of Dell's Maraschino Cherries in Red Hook, Brooklyn, shot and killed himself when authorities came to the factory in…
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…
The Dose channel from alt-sports website Network A recently sat down with Ed Polio of 5050 Skatepark to talk about how 5050 came to be, how they curate their boxes and ramps, and how they…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
Warning! This is a graphic video you should not watch if you have a weak stomach or are planning on eating anytime in the next week. Here is security camera footage obtained by our friends…
In case you were under a rock this past Saturday, there was a massive 7-alarm warehouse fire in a paper storage warehouse in Williamsburg that filled the sky with thick, white and gray…
