A front-row chicken bucket and other horribly bad acts of Broadway theatergoers (Wall Street Journal) During a Saturday matinee of the Holocaust drama “Irena’s Vow,” a man walked in late and called up to actress Tovah Feldshuh to halt her monologue until he got settled. “He shouted, ‘Can you please wait a second?’ and then continued on toward his seat,” recalls Nick Ahlers, a science teacher from Newark, N.J., who was in the audience.
Parents pulling the plugs on Williamsburg hipster trustafarians (NY Times) Famed for its concentration of heavily subsidized 20-something residents — also nicknamed trust-funders or trustafarians — Williamsburg is showing signs of trouble. Parents whose money helped fuel one of the city’s most radical gentrifications in recent years have stopped buying their children new luxury condos, subsidizing rents and providing cash to spend at Bedford Avenue’s boutiques and coffee houses.
Coney beaches remain closed due to sewage contamination (Daily News) Hundreds of disappointed beachgoers were left cooling their heels on shore after fears surfaced that sewage might have spilled onto Coney Island and Manhattan beaches from a treatment plant.
Walking the five bridges of Harlem-South Bronx (Forgotten NY) New York City borders on an ocean, several straits and a tidal estuary (the Hudson River). This propitious location has given rise to over 400 bridges, including two of the four remaining rectractile bridges in the USA
Borough-by-borough, oldest homes in NYC (Bowery Boys) The oldest house in New York belonged to Pieter Claesen Wyckoff and he built it around 1652, living there approximately 43 years after Henry Hudson had sailed into New York harbor.
