Eryn
The first night back from vacation, I slept the weird kind of sleep I sometimes do, where I’m not fully dreaming, but have a very clear sense that I’m somewhere else. I woke up many times that night, back in the cramped East Village loft bed with insistent cats, but it was to a feeling [...]
So cool: Part of an 18th-century ship (“30-foot length of a wood-hulled vessel“) was found at the World Trade Center site, 20 to 30 feet below street level. “The vessel, presumably dating from the mid- to late 1700s, was evidently undisturbed more than 200 years.”
David W. Dunlap’s lede is totally over the top, but also [...]
I know Flavorwire means well with this list of ten women writers they love—supposedly, it was inspired by the whole Jezebel/Daily Show fracas, and I guess any large-scale conversation About Women gets people thinking about where women are and are not in every area of art and life. But the fact remains that this is [...]
I love Ellen Lupton’s piece on the Times website today about heirlooms and legacies. (Ever wondered what an heirloom chicken wing might look like? Go find out.)
Also in the realm of fading/obsolete/nostalgic, the Times recently took a look at cigarette machines, along with the dwindling number of small old movie houses that are apparently “little [...]
In a sign that they are perhaps the least self-aware retailer ever, the facade of a new Urban Outfitters store being planned for the Upper West Side will be designed to look like four different storefronts: “a hat store, a hardware store, a neighborhood bar and a bodega.” I’ll just let the designer explain the [...]
In Obit, Matt Katz rues the death of idle time, and Matt Flegenheimer reports on the closing of NYC restaurant Gino’s, a place that stayed “frozen in the ’40s”:
Gino’s eldest loyalists have lived through crippling wars, sea-changing revolutions, 12 presidential administrations — every verse of “We Didn’t Start the Fire” by Billy Joel, whom they’ve [...]
On Saturday night we went to the Upper East Side and drank cheap beer in the sprawling, river-view apartment of some very rich people that a friend-of-a-friend works for. The family was away at their weekend home, as they apparently are most weekends, and being generous folks, they let this acquaintance of ours hang out [...]
I’m getting obsessed with “View from the Top Floor,” Marc Miller’s carefully curated website that looks back at East Village history as seen from his perch at 98 Bowery. Here, he posts audio clips of answering machine messages that he’s saved, forming “a sound portrait of my life in the 1980’s composed of the voices [...]
And then it’s summer again. Somehow it catches me by surprise every year. It always feels sudden, even when the weather has been circling around the inevitable conclusion for weeks, as if sighing and giving me time to get acclimated. Yesterday, a long and aimless walk through intermittent rain, a surprise eye-candy carnival, and a [...]
I love the websites of little hotels and B&B’s. There’s something sweet about how uniformly lo-fi and ugly they are, all the scrappy bells and whistles of the early internet hurled at one page. It’s like they’re trying to seduce and repel you at the same time, but because you know what to expect when [...]