Met Museum video: “Isaac Mizrahi Discusses “Unzipped” with Harold Koda and Kohle Yohannan” on the Met Museum’s YouTube channel
NYC mayoral hopeful Naked Cowboy lives in Jersey (Post) Since deciding to run for mayor of New York City, Burck started watching Fox News for hours on end and reading such books as Bill O’Reilly’s “Culture Warrior” and “A Documentary History of the United States” by Richard Heffner.
30 Rock’s murals getting major restoration (NY Times) Then he realized that the simplest method was still the best: gently rubbing all the surfaces with an agate burnisher or a bone folder, a tool more commonly used for book binding. By working slowly, in tiny sections, the varnish began to flake off easily. “It’s a green, incredibly low-tech solution,” Mr. Greene said. Still, he added, “it is going to take two years to get through all the murals, one inch at a time.”
Cricket player critical after Brooklyn lightning strike (Daily News) It started raining. The thunder cracked, and he just fell,” said witness Dominic Audain, 22, a cricket player on the opposing team, Middlesex Cricket Country Club.
A tour of NYC Italian ices (Serious Eats) Court Pastry Shop, a traditional Italian establishment in Cobble Hill, had what was to me the clearest definition of an Italian ice. It was light, lemony, faintly sweet, and ultimately refreshing
Variable pricing at Midtown hot dog stands (Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood via Grub Street/Midtown Lunch) I soon realise that no item on his cart has a fixed price. “You see, it’s $1.50 for him,” Ayman says, gesturing toward a Jersey Dad, who is enjoying a hot dog with sauerkraut, “but not for everybody. Sometimes $2, sometimes .75. Depends how they look.”
Neighborhoods and subneighborhoods south of Prospect Park (Forgotten NY) Beaux Arts apartment building on Ocean Avenue and Beverl(e)y Road (it’s spelled differently depending on where you are). In the late 1800s architects and sculptors often placed whimsical-looking ornamental carvings on their buildings. …
