Long Beach or Bust

This past weekend, I biked out to Long Beach (just outside of Far Rockaway, for those that have never been). My original plan was to bike all the way to Robert Moses, but I took a really indirect route, and by the time I got to Rockaway, half the day was gone (er, in part due to forgoing my plan to wake up early . . .

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The Sign-Eating Tree of Richmond Hill

I was scouting in the Richmond Hill neighborhood of Queens today when I saw this tree that appears to be devouring its “SLOW – CHILDREN AT PLAY” sign.

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I’ve seen signs with bark wrap-over before, but here it seems like the tree is on the verge of gulping the sign down.

. . .

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The Tower of Terror on West 11th Street

When I turned the corner onto West 11th Street and saw the Palazzo Chupi for the first time…

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…I have to admit, the first thing that came to mind was the Tower of Terror in Disney World.

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. . .

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Scouting NY Sells Out

Yep, it’s true – SNY has sold out. For those who might be interested, I was asked by the NY Post to write a retrospective of my ten favorite New York City finds for their Sunday edition, which was published today (pgs. 26-27).

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I’ve been thinking of putting together a print column for a . . .

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Are You Stupid?

I saw this ad while biking over the Pulaski Bridge, and I was pretty amazed:

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What an odd question to ponder while going into Queens. Am I stupid? Or what?

I get the intention – we’re stupid if we don’t listen to 970AM. But it feels like it’s incomplete: with . . .

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Telephone Exchanges and the Oldest Number in NYC

In the 1930′s and 1940′s, as telephone numbers began to increase in digits, “telephone exchanges” were introduced to make it all a bit easier to remember. The first two digits of a phone number were referred by a word incorporating their related letters – for example, PEnnsylvania 6-5000 would mean to dial PE6-5000, or 736-5000. You can still find remnants of this . . .

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