Twin Towers from the East River, July 4th, 1992.
May just save you from The Plague and other such diseases.
(Side note: Prince can’t be too happy about the background music in the above clip).
(Photo by flickr user eszter)
You’re friggin’ welcome.
* - Because this would be far too practical.
Don’t miss John Williams and the New York Philharmonic in an evening of unforgettable musical highlights from Spartacus, Vertigo, Harry Potter, Star Wars, and more! Tuesday, October 25, 2011. One night only. Visit nyphil.org for tickets and information.
This should be amazing.
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WRXP 101.9 in NYC shifts from contemporary rock to news channel targeting women in their 30's and 40's as it changes hands from Emmis to Merlin Media | NYDN
Bah.
The shift from Smooth Jazz to Rock in 2008 was one of the more exciting things to happen in local NYC radio in years. Matt Pinfield did a great job carving out a more Contemporary niche against the Classic vein of the venerable WAXQ 104.3.
Anyway, I guess the once-monthly listens when my contemporaries in the area rented a car wasn’t enough to sustain it. And Jersey also has WDHA 105.5, making WRXP somewhat redundant there. For the most part, it’s iPods and iTunes, Satellites, and Pandora-esque streaming for the Gen X tail-end/Millennial set the station was geared toward. Has been for some time now.
Ah, well.
WRXP was one of the “last, and best, g’damn buggy whips” in an era of automobiles.
Fare thee well.
No, we’re not referencing the catchy pop song of a similar title (although it’s now stuck in our heads!). We’re talking about the Umbrella House, 21-23 Avenue C, between East 2nd and 3rd Streets- the building with the lively umbrellas suspended from its facade. Built in 1899 as an Old Law Tenement by prominent East Village architect Michael Bernstein, this building has a history as colorful as its umbrellas!
Love this.
Read more about The Umbrella House and how it got its name at the GVSHP’s Off the Grid blog here.
The sound of hail stones falling on the skylight in my hallway earlier.
As if the undercoat of pastel-colored paint on the walls, the purple bath tub*, and the thousands of high heel “pockmarks” in the parquet weren’t enough to make me at least somewhat suspicious that my apartment was once a brothel, the Yellow Pages addressed to the former tenant “Sticky Fingers” has me feeling confident that my suspicions were pretty much spot-on…
City Livin’!
* - I tell everyone that Prince used to live here. It was back in the ’80s…
