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Fresh Kills, the world’s largest landfill soon to be transformed into a productive and beautiful cultural destination. Open to the public for Open House New York weekend.
October 16 and 17, people!
Okay, so this member of the Unconsumption gang had to know more about the size of the park (which I understand will be built in several phases). The New York City Department of Parks and Recreation says:
At 2,200 acres, Freshkills Park will be almost three times the size of Central Park and the largest park developed in New York City in over 100 years. [Emphasis mine. That’s huge!]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lspk7sCh3H1qbltjyo1_250.jpg)
wnyc:
Fresh Kills, the world’s largest landfill soon to be transformed into a productive and beautiful cultural destination. Open to the public for Open House New York weekend.
October 16 and 17, people!
Okay, so this member of the Unconsumption gang had to know more about the size of the park (which I understand will be built in several phases). The New York City Department of Parks and Recreation says:
At 2,200 acres, Freshkills Park will be almost three times the size of Central Park and the largest park developed in New York City in over 100 years. [Emphasis mine. That’s huge!]
Doyers Street illuminated by the sun. Chinatown, New York City.
Out of the way streets tell a wealth of tales. The bright afternoon sun beats down on old decaying walls and fire escapes creating elongated shadows that seem to stretch indefinitely. If the well-worn awnings could talk, just think of the secrets they would reveal.
This is one of my favorite streets in Lower Manhattan. It’s Doyers Street located in Chinatown. I have always considered it more of an alley. It’s a peculiar street that winds and curves around tucking itself away from the rest of Chinatown. At only around 200 feet long, Doyers Street runs from Pell Street to Chatham Square. It’s home to very old tenements and long-standing businesses like The Nom Wah Tea Parlor which opened in 1927.
In the early 20th century the curve in the street was known as “the Bloody Angle” because of a plethora of violent acts carried out by Chinatown gangs. The expression ‘hatchet man’ is said to have come from this era and these violent acts which often included hatchets. While the street is not bloody or violent today, it’s been used in a variety of films and is definitely worth a visit.
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John Stewart grills Palin and Trump properly for the heinous crime of eating pizza with a fork. This is awesome!
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Paging Joni Mitchell of the Day: Peekskill, NY’s city historian John Curran has been fighting city hall for nearly a decade in an effort to obtain funding to preserve what he believes is the actual “yellow brick road” that inspired the one in L. Frank Baum classic children’s novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Though much of it has given way to progress, a small stretch of the once yellow-hued Dutch paver road has been converted into a parking lot for downtown-area shoppers.
Baum arrived in Peekskill at age 12 to attend its military academy, which, according to Curran, was situated at the edge of the road. Though nothing of the sort was documented by the author, Curran says Baum likely asked for directions to the academy, and was told to “follow the yellow brick road.”
An authenticity study conducted in 2005 found the road was, in fact, made of Dutch pavers, and that Baum would have had to walk along the road to reach his school. However, town officials remain reluctant to provide Curran with the $225k necessary to restore the road to its former glory.
“I don’t want to be too pushy, because I’m the artist,” says sculptor Richard Masloski, who is seeking private funding for restoration from Peekskill Military Academy alumni. “But c’mon, Peekskill, get off your butt and do this, I don’t want history to die.”
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Paging Joni Mitchell of the Day: Peekskill, NY’s city historian John Curran has been fighting city hall for nearly a decade in an effort to obtain funding to preserve what he believes is the actual “yellow brick road” that inspired the one in L. Frank Baum classic children’s novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Though much of it has given way to progress, a small stretch of the once yellow-hued Dutch paver road has been converted into a parking lot for downtown-area shoppers.
Baum arrived in Peekskill at age 12 to attend its military academy, which, according to Curran, was situated at the edge of the road. Though nothing of the sort was documented by the author, Curran says Baum likely asked for directions to the academy, and was told to “follow the yellow brick road.”
An authenticity study conducted in 2005 found the road was, in fact, made of Dutch pavers, and that Baum would have had to walk along the road to reach his school. However, town officials remain reluctant to provide Curran with the $225k necessary to restore the road to its former glory.
“I don’t want to be too pushy, because I’m the artist,” says sculptor Richard Masloski, who is seeking private funding for restoration from Peekskill Military Academy alumni. “But c’mon, Peekskill, get off your butt and do this, I don’t want history to die.”
The sun shines down 42nd Street in New York City during the biannual occurrence named ‘Manhattanhenge’ (via Pictures of the day: 31 May 2011 - Telegraph)
Ty Cullen stops random New Yorkers with headphones to ask them what song they’re listening to.
Central Park in all its lush glory. New York City.
In summer, the song sings itself. -William Carlos Williams
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This is lovely.
(Source: whereisthecoool)
