Living in New York you can't help but be bombarded with an overwhelming amount of information and activity every single day. Every so often I'm going to post links to news, issues, events and interesting stories all revolving around the best city in the world. I’ve lived in New York for almost 7 years now and I never have a lack of things that pique my interest. I’m lucky enough to have an amazing mother-in-law, who lives in Philly, that loves to take visits to New York. When she arrives she has picked a new and interesting outing from her TimeOutNY that she’d like to do during her visit. We’ve been to amazing museums, art exhibits, restaurants, parks, bars...the list goes on. She gets us out and about appreciating parts of the city that we never knew existed. She is originally from New York and her love of this city can be quite contagious. I spoke to her last evening and it reminded that I wanted to share stories on a regular basis that are all about New York.
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While living on the east side of Manhattan in Stuyvesant Town, I used to run through the East River Park everyday on my runs. Grand Street news published in article on what seems to be the endless work being conducted in the East River Park in an effort to make mass improvements to grounds.
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It appears that my old stomping ground has shut it’s doors. The Roxy was seized by the state due to nonpayment of taxes over the Halloween weekend. Happy Valley and Avalon also got the ax over the same weekend. Not a good day to be happy-go-lucky club kid in New York this week, it appears.
UPDATE: Sounds like a wealthy investor has saved the day at the ROXY. Chelsea's Saturday night will remain unchanged. What would they have done?!
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Two shows that I think would be interesting to check out are in New York at this time by photographer Robert Polidori. “Polidori is best known as an architectural photographer, but his true interests lie at the limits of the habitable world, where disaster and human failures combine to create places nearly lost to history" His two shows are on major disasters that took place in our very recent future. He documents the “destruction visited upon New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina” in his show is at Metropolitan Museum of Art called “New Orleans After the Flood” that is showing through December 10. His second show documents “abandoned Ukrainian towns of Pripyat and Chernobyl, sites of the nuclear catastrophe that occurred in 1986. The show is titled simply “Chernobyl” showing at the Edwynn Houk Gallery through December 23. I hope to check them both out. They sound very interesting and touching.
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In honor of my favorite New York Building - Find out what color is the Empire State building going to be this week and why.
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This takes a bit of time to load so BE PATIENT but I love what the folks at onNYturf.com have done. They have mixed your regular Google map of New York City and added the New York City subway map. I’ve always wished the Google maps had this much detail and now, thanks to these guys, they do!
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