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• A New York Yankees State of Mind

  Posted on Friday November 6th, 2009 at 19:20 in new york, new york yankees

  Hundreds of thousands of New York Yankees fans in the city got the chance to applaud their hometown World Series heroes for the parade and ceremony in lower Manhattan on Friday, November 6, celebrating along the Canyon of Heroes on Broadway and on th...

• 20 Short Walks between New York Landmarks

  Posted on Wednesday November 4th, 2009 at 16:18 in new york, brooklyn, Central Park, lincoln center, chinatown, theater district, city hall, madison square park

  Favorable weather may encourage long walks through the New York cityscape, but sometimes a short walk of a mile or less may be just the ticket for some serious New York sightseeing. Perfect for brisk autumn weather, these suggested walks pair two ne...

• Chatting with the Dead, A Steampunk Haunted House, the Village Halloween Parade and Other Events For Halloween Week in New York

  Posted on Wednesday October 28th, 2009 at 15:29 in events, new york, halloween

  From the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century many prominent scholars and writers professed a faith in spiritualism, the idea that one could communicate with departed spirits through a gifted "medium." Arthur Conan Doyle, the creato...

• E. L. Doctorow\'s Homer & Langley

  Posted on Friday October 23rd, 2009 at 11:58 in Mystery, new york, writers, harlem

  Homer & Langley, the sweet, funny and often heartbreaking novel by E. L. Doctorow, is inspired by the true story of the famous Collyer Brothers, Homer & Langley, reclusive siblings shuttered behind the doors of their Fifth Avenue mansion in ...

• "I love this dirty town": J.J. Hunsecker and the New York of Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

  Posted on Friday October 16th, 2009 at 15:12 in new york, writers, theater, broadway, noir, moving image

  Sweet Smell of Success is one of the great and final dramatic noir films set and filmed in an alluringly dangerous New York. Directed by Alexander Mackendrick with a brilliant script by Ernest Lehman and Clifford Odets, the 1957 classic, shot in glor...

• Gumshoes: A Partial Lineup of New York Detectives in American Crime Fiction

  Posted on Wednesday October 7th, 2009 at 10:20 in Mystery, new york, writers

  The word gumshoe can be used as an intransitive verb, meaning to work as a detective, but more commonly gumshoe refers to the investigators themselves. While the etymology is a little murky, the term most likely refers to the new soft-soled gum that...

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