THE DEATH— ie., the Starbucks® and Disney®zation — of Coney Island as we know it is imminent, if you believe all the glowing press releases we’ve seen in the papers…
Monthly Archives
June 2005
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YOU’VE felt the heat already. New York City’s 722 miles of subways are among the dirtiest, hottest and most woebegone in the country. Other, newer systems are cleaner, cooler and run…
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HERE are some NYC neighborhoods I find myself in again, again and again. I never tire of Coney, and I always seem to be in the Long Island City–Astoria area (the theme this year…
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Remsen House, 27th Avenue and 12th Street, Astoria, destroyed February 2005. The house was built in 1835. DEVELOPERS can be a hateful, despicable bunch. Quite a statement coming from a website that…