Showing posts with label NYC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NYC. Show all posts
Sunday, April 23, 2017

"Expansion," a sculpture in NYC by Paige Bradley

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Friday, December 30, 2016

1977 NYC Blackout

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By Jack Brummet, NYC Metro Ed. 7/13/1977 during the NYC Blackout.   KeeKee ,  Jan , and I are all down there somewhere.  The fires wer...
Monday, December 26, 2016

Counting every tree in New York City

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From  Architecture Daily, 11-28-2016 : New York City's Department of Parks and Recreation has completed its two-year project of as...
Wednesday, May 25, 2016

NYC survival tips from the mid-1970's

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By Jack Brummet, NYC Metro Ed. NYC was a dangerous, dirty, and crazy place in the mid-70s (when I lived there, in Loisaida, in Brooklyn...
Friday, March 04, 2016

Bowery & Delancey, NYC at the Bowery BMT Station, ca. 1978

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Facing west at Bowery & Delancey   ‪#‎ NYC‬  in 1978. . .down the block from our loft at 181 Chrystie Street (from Dirty Old 1970's ...
Sunday, February 28, 2016

That crazy guy on the bridge

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By Jack Brummet Crazy guy on a bridge in Wim Wenders' Paris, Texas I saw a photo today of facing apartment buildings today that ...
Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Crown Heights Brooklyn's 23rd Regiment Armory

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By Jack Brummet, NYC Metro Ed. A current shot, and one from the 19th century, of The 23rd Regiment Armory in Crown Heights. The building i...
Wednesday, September 23, 2015

R.I.P. Yogi Berra

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By Jack Brummet Of anyone, ever, in the Yankees organization,  he was the sweetest and most memorable. His malapropisms will long su...
Thursday, June 11, 2015

NYC Subway Etiquette Posters

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Monday, June 08, 2015

432 Park Avenue dominates the NYC skyline now

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By Jack Brummet, NYC Metro Ed I am utterly fascinated by 432 Park Avenue.  It's kind of crazy.  The first photo, from Central...
Monday, April 06, 2015

Time Square Grindhouses thirty years ago

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By Jack Brummet Just some of the movie theaters then in Times Square.  On the bill that day: Cine 42:  I:  Critters / Deadly Blessing;...
Thursday, February 12, 2015

Dwight Thompson in the Rolling Stone's video "Waiting for a friend"

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By Jack Brummet, Music Ed. Screen caps from my friend Dwight Thompson's appearance in the Rolling Stone video " Waiting On A Frie...
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Times Square, 1979

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By Jack Brummet, NYC Metro Ed. Times Square, 1979, with Bill Murray, and a working gal. This was the center point of when we lived in...
Thursday, November 20, 2014

Police decoys in Brookyn, 1969: NYC policeman in drag

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By Jack Brummet Back before there were (m)any women officers on the NYPD, they used Patrolman Wm. R. Winter as a decoy to attract mugge...
Friday, September 05, 2014

NYC Wired — when New York had telephone poles

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By Jack Brummet, NYC Metro Ed. Telephone wires in NYC, in 1887. It had gotten this crazy just seven years after the first wires were stru...
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Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Photo of Coney Island (circa 1905: Luna Park), colorized by Dana Keller

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Coney Island, New York, ca. 1905. "Luna Park, Promenade".  Colorized by Dana Keller. ---o0o---
Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Fire hydrants in the summer in NYC

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By Jack Brummet, Metro Ed. One of the most iconic images of New York is seeing children (and adults) running through water shoot...
Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Living in Brooklyn, 1977 (The Summer of Sam), when the doctors nearly succeeded in killing me

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By Jack Brummet, NYC Metro Ed. My pal and my gal, Brooklyn, 1978 A shot I took from of our fire escape during a Brooklyn parade. The...
Tuesday, January 14, 2014

A most disturbing (and hilarious) prank

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By Mona Goldwater, Film Ed. A hilarious, and disturbing  remote-control Devil Baby recently took to the streets of New York as part of a v...
Monday, December 16, 2013

The IRT Subway, circa 1978

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By Jack Brummet, NYC Metro Ed. When we lived in NYC (1977-1982), this is what our local subway (the west side IRT, Lines 1, 2, and 3) typ...