Archival footage of the February 9, 1942 burning of the SS Normandie at Pier 88 in the Hudson River, from the “Stillman Fires” film collection on YouTube.
Lawmakers call for federal probe of Ticketmaster (Urbanite) After Springsteen tickets went on sale at 10 a.m. last Monday for his “Working on a Dream Tour”, many fans trying to buy seats on Ticketmaster.com were instead directed to TicketsNow.com, where they found seats for nearly five times the price, said Pascrell, a Democrat who represents Passaic County. TicketsNow is a resell web site owned and operated Ticketmaster.
Edward Hopper’s famous diner at Greenwich and Seventh avenues (Walking Off the Big Apple) Following in Hopper’s footsteps, I walked from the place where he lived on Washington Square North to the intersection of Greenwich and Seventh Avenues to visit the location of the demolished diner. On this spot, a high chain link fence, dotted with hundreds of individual tiles to commemorate the events of 9-11, surrounds a mostly empty lot used to store equipment.
New theory on old murder at Chelsea Hotel (Daily Beast via Waist High) Thirty years after the death of Sex Pistols front man Sid Vicious, a new documentary, Who Killed Nancy?, argues that Sid was not responsible for death of his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen. Legendary Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren says the idea was bollocks in the first place.
Jayne Houdyshell to play Coraline on stage starting May 7 (NY Times) “Coraline” the movie opened on Friday; “Coraline” the musical is in the works. MCC Theater has just announced a bit of unconventional casting news for its stage adaptation of the graphic novel by Neil Gaiman.
Bald Eagle weekend pictures (Urban Hawks) During the winter, about an hour north of Manhattan on the Hudson River, you can find Bald Eagles. On Saturday, an Eaglefest was held along the river. I drove up with James O’Brien and Ben Cacace and we ended up seeing over sixty eagles!
New plan to get rid of Central Park horse carriages (Post) A city lawmaker wants to phase out controversial buggy-pulling horses and replace them with eco-friendly electric replicas of vintage Model T Fords.
