Rantings of a New Yorker

Atheism ads ran on New York City buses in July, now, they’re running in the subways.

The dozen subway stations where the ads are running are:

14th Street-Sixth Avenue

14th Street-Seventh Avenue

14th Street-Eighth Avenue

23rd Street-Eighth Avenue

Pennsylvania Station (three ads)

86th Street-Lexington Avenue

96th Street-Lexington Avenue

42nd Street-Sixth Avenue/Bryant Park

66th Street-Broadway/Lincoln Center

72nd Street-Central Park West

86th Street-Central Park West

West Fourth Street

Brooklyn’s Urban Beekeepers: Breaking The Law For The Planet (Part I) from SkeeterNYC on Vimeo.
Sometimes laws are meant to be broken. Meet a passionate crew of illegal urban beekeepers in Brooklyn, New York working on their very first honey harvest for their restaurants. Find out why raising bees on NYC rooftops is important for [...]

There are many things that you never would have suspected lie beneath the harbor, including a 350-foot steamship, 1,600 bars of silver, a freight train, and four-foot-long cement-eating worms.
In 1865, a freight train was carrying baggage and failed to realize that the Peekskill drawbridge was open, killing two men.
Dead bodies, surveillance systems, stripped cars, piles [...]

Brooklyn native, Ronny Beberman, one of the last real seltzer delivery man left in Brooklyn.  Unfortunately, he fell off his truck, the first time that’s ever happened to him in nearly 40 years of work, and now his clients are left without proper seltzer.
Mr. Beberman drives the last real seltzer truck in New York, a [...]

Flickr user, Straatis, has a nice collection of photos of New York City, broken down by years.  If you’ve got some time, consider browsing this phenomenal collection.  I miss the days when kids were actually allowed to play and create their own adventures.
1948 – Boy Jumping into the Hudson River by Ruth Orkin

1938 – Brooklyn, [...]

Ever wonder what Manhattan looked like before it was full of buildings and skyscrapers?  The Mannahatta Project has done that for you.  An interactive map and website, you can explore all points in Manhattan to see what it used to look like.
“The goal of the Mannahatta Project has never been to return Manhattan to its [...]

The 1940s is considered the golden age of New York City and Life Magazine has a nice gallery of photos of the time.
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While Staten Island might not be a utopia, it sure has some beautiful and interesting areas.  I could spend hours on Forgotten New York’s website.  It’s filled with fascinating places that really should never be forgotten.

Officially opening in early September, Brooklyn Boulders, the new indoor climbing gym in Brooklyn, will have a scalable Brooklyn Bridge.

The website is a bit of an eyesore, but check it out anyway.

Over the last eight months and brazen subway robber has hit 14 victims.  His main course of attack is to hit those that are preoccupied with other things.
Police said the suspect — a black man in his 20s — held up his latest victim on the “F” train in Jamaica, Queens.

The suspect targets mostly women [...]