When posting about the Manhattanhenge sunset earlier this year, I had found information from Time Out New York that the sunrise edition would occur on 11/30 . There does not appear to be any official astrological confirmation online regarding when this year’s sunrise is, so I’ve decided to be an astrologer and do my own [...]
Archive for November, 2009
MANHATTANHENGE: Sunrise
Posted in manhattan, tagged CSI, equinox, manhattan, manhattanhenge, new york city, solstice, stonehenge, street grid, streets, sun, sunrise, sunset, urban on November 26, 2009 | 3 Comments »
AUTOMATS, TAXI DANCES and VAUDEVILLE: Manhattan’s Lost Places of Leisure
Posted in manhattan, tagged atlantic garden, automats, beer hall, bowery, chinatown, david freeland, entertainment, history, immigration, leisure, manhattan, new york city, preservation, theater, vaudeville on November 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Secret passageways under Chinatown, remnants of a bygone Bowery beer hall, a rooftop film studio…Author David Freeland writes of these and more in his book Automats, Taxi Dances and Vaudeville: Excavating Manhattan’s Lost Places of Leisure. Freeland seeks to find continuity through history, using the lens of leisure activity in New York. He is more [...]
