Scouting Atlantic City (Er, When It’s Not So Snowy)

Despite living in New York for ten years, I’ve never gone to Atlantic City. I’m not sure what’s held me back – the lack of a car is certainly part of it, but I think the main reason is that the whole excursion has always felt like too much planning…Which hotels, which casinos, how much to spend, how to get around, where . . .

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Chelsea Birds Are Watching You

Wanted to share some really neat details I noticed while scouting in Chelsea the other day. This building, at the corner of 23rd & Ninth, is known as London Terrace Gardens and actually stretches all the way to 10th Ave. When it was built in 1931, it was considered the largest apartment building in the world.

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Clapboard House Goes Up in Times Square (??)

I was walking down 49th Street west of 8th Ave when I noticed an unusual building behind a construction barrier…

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Clapboards, in Times Square?? Given that anything new in this area tends to be glass, steel, or less frequently brick, this is definitely an oddity, silly gimmick or not. But is this a new . . .

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The Legend of the Metrocard Bike

When I saw it today at 59th and 8th, I didn’t realize I had come across a legend.

At the time, it seemed like a clever novelty: a bike completely decked out in Metrocards (for non-New Yorkers, a Metrocard is a NYC subway pass).

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Great job, right? I like the . . .

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Masked Vigilante on 42nd Street

In these troubling times, it is refreshing to know that somewhere in the Socony-Mobil building…

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…Perched high above 42nd Street…

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…A masked avenger keeps a constant vigil over us.

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-SCOUT

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Nobody Steps On A Church In My Town! Or Do They?…

Walking west on 12th Street from 3rd Ave, you probably wouldn’t give it a second glance: a stone church located midway down the block.

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Coming from the opposite direction, however, you might notice something decidedly wrong with it. In short, the church has no…church.

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