At long last, Scouting NY is finally on Instagram!
I often put up pictures of the random interesting/pretty/funny/bizarre things I come across while scouting on Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr…Finally breaking down and adding Instagram to the list. Join us, won’t you?
And don’t worry, no 70s filters, I swear.
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Yesterday, I received this e-mail from a reader: An interesting question. Really, how to put a value on content you’re used to getting for free? After much thought, I realized the only solution is to compare the enjoyment you get from Scouting NY to products you buy without much thought. In other words, if you…
Scouting NY is kicking off a contest for your chance to win one of five $50 American Express gift cards! Here’s how to enter: 1) Go to PartnersInPreservation.com and vote for you favorite historical site to receive grant money 2) Respond in the comments below with who you voted for, along with either your email…
As many of you – but not all! – figured out, the pictures from my first trip to New York were actually taken at the NY, NY Casino in Las Vegas (apparently, the biggest give away was how clean the city looked). I wasn’t able to get out to Vegas to take the pictures myself,…
Some time ago, I had the opportunity to scout the defunct Grumman airplane factory in Bethpage, Long Island. Once the leading manufacturer of everything from F-14’s to the Apollo Lunar Module, Grumman was bought by a larger company in the 1990’s and moved out of Bethpage. The enormous complex is now being converted into residential…
This post was originally about trying to locate where Alvy Singer first kissed Annie in Annie Hall…and of course, Scouting NY readers figured it out within hours! Specifically, Richard B correctly identified it as Greenwich Ave between 10th & Christopher. Two big questions remain: where was the nightclub that Annie sang at, and where was…
Hey everyone – Just reminder that I’ll be speaking this Thursday in the Hollywood Location Scouts panel at Comic-Con! From the program: Working closely with the director and production designer, location scouts are the artists who translate the script into reality by exploring the world to figure out exactly where the movies and TV shows…
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O/T but thought maybe this might interest you/your readers:
“Apparently nobody can find any precedent for the stunt pulled by New York City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) over the Thanksgiving holiday.
“What they did was to sneak out an announcement, with just the required seven business days before the LPC’s next scheduled public meeting on December 9, of its intention to wipe nearly 100 sites (including two districts) currently “calendared” for landmarks consideration off its rolls …”
http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-nyc-landmarks-preservation.html