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Archive for the ‘Gramercy/Flatiron’ Category

May 3rd, 2008

Photo: The Flatiron Building

The Flatiron Building, located at Fifth Avenue and 23rd Street, is an architectural gem in New York City. 
Photo credits: personal collection
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April 10th, 2008

"In the Know" New Yorkers Know of this Secret Hideaway

Its not too often I recommend a chain-hotel as a must-see destination in New York, but knowledgeable New Yorkers and tourists have been patronizing this hotel bar for years and it is time to let the secret slip. 
Mé Bar is pronounced “May Bar”  and can be roughly translated as “mountain bar” in Korean.  The […]

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March 20th, 2008

Watch the Feathers Fly at Union Square

This Saturday marks International Pillow Fight Day as well as the Third Annual New York City Pillow Fight.  Make your way down to Union Square armed with your pillow and join in on the party.
All attendees are encouraged to bring their softest pillow (feather is better!) as well as don a fun outfit or […]

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February 17th, 2008

A Closer Look: Portraits of the Homeless in New York City

These are not people from another planet or another world.  These are your neighbors.  We tend to avoid looking at these people when we walk down the street.  We step over them or around them.  We don’t really want to see them.  We don’t want to see their faces.”   Bill Bernstein   
There are an […]

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February 11th, 2008

MoSex: New York City’s Museum of Sex

Though it sounds like a place for cheap thrills, don’t let the name deceive you— The Museum of Sex (MoSex) is more museum than sex.
This Manhattan institution is where you will find historical artifacts and displays on prostitution, burlesque, obscenity and fetishism that were once too controversial to be displayed in their own […]

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