They’ve been together for 23 years and were the first couple in New York City to wed under the state’s new law allowing same-sex marriage Sunday, July 23, 2011. Phyllis Siegel, 77, and Connie Kopelov, 85, were married in Lower Manhattan at 9:02 a.m. Sunday in a ceremony witnessed by City Council Speaker Christine Quinn [...]
Clip of September 13, 2010, Bill Maher appearance on Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Bill discusses religion, Islam, New York “Ground Zero” (9/11) Mosque, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Tea Party, Guns, BP Oil Spill, Illegal Aliens with his unique, irreverent humor.
This photo is an accurate depiction of the debate that’s currently raging. And a quote from a redditor. As a guy who has been living less than 2 miles from the WTC for about 20 years, let me say that no one I know in downtown Manhattan is opposed to this Mosque in any way, [...]
This is an absolutely moving speech in defense of tolerance and freedom. We should build the Muslim community center and continue the New York City tradition of tolerance for your fellow human beings. With the mosque getting final approval, those that continue to oppose it should be ashamed and embarrassed of themselves. The religion did [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Telectroscope is a large series of mirrors, located between New York and London that allows people to instantly communicate with one another. The inventor of it went insane and died. Here, Andy Jordan dons steampunk garb to take a look across the Atlantic.
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 [...]
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, [...]
