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A Bleecker Street Holiday Shopping Guide: From Abingdon Square to the Bowery
walkingoffthebigapple.com - 11 hours ago
A Bleecker Street Holiday Shopping Guide: From Abingdon Square to the Bowery
— walkingoffthebigapple.com — Fifth Avenue and SoHo may be popular destinations for holiday shopping in New York, but for those... who enjoy shopping in small stores away from the crowded sidewalks, Bleecker Street may just the ticket. Approximately 1.14 miles in length from Abingdon Square in the West Village down to the ... (more) A Bleecker Street Holiday Shopping Guide: From Abingdon ...

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Alicia Keys and Empire State of Mind, Part II
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Alicia Keys and Empire State of Mind, Part II
— walkingoffthebigapple.com — Thanks largely to the popularity of Jay-Z's now ubiquitous New York-loving anthem "Empire State of Mind ,"... the top song on Billboard's Hot 100 chart this week and on which she sings the chorus and gets credit as a co-writer, Alicia Keys is on a roll these days. Now, with the release on December ... (more) Alicia Keys and Empire State of Mind, Part II

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An Unofficial Guide to Macy's New Thanksgiving Day Parade Route
walkingoffthebigapple.com - 5 days ago
An Unofficial Guide to Macy's New Thanksgiving Day Parade Route
— walkingoffthebigapple.com — After 82 years, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thursday, November 26, 2009 will be following a... new route through Manhattan. A major reason for the change has to do with the city's recent experiments along Broadway to make the thoroughfare more engaging for pedestrians and bicyclists ... (more) An Unofficial Guide to Macy's New Thanksgiving Day ...

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walkingoffthebigapple.com - 7 days ago
Night Falls on the City: The View from the Brooklyn Bridge
— walkingoffthebigapple.com — During those liminal moments after the sun sets but before the night has muted the clarity of... day, the landscape veers off into abstraction. It's the golden hour, a mystical time favored by visual artists. Familiar sights gradually lose detail, giving way to sheer fundamental shapes, ... (more) Night Falls on the City: The View from the Brooklyn Bridge

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A Cultural Guide to West 57th Street: A Walk and a Map
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A Cultural Guide to West 57th Street: A Walk and a Map
— walkingoffthebigapple.com — It began in 1891 with the opening of Carnegie Hall, the symbol of music world success that... Andrew Carnegie paid people to construct on 7th Avenue between West 57th and West 56th Streets. A year later, the Art Students League moved into the new American Fine Arts Building, an elegant French ... (more) A Cultural Guide to West 57th Street: A Walk and a Map

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An Early Morning Walk in the East Village
walkingoffthebigapple.com - 12 days ago
An Early Morning Walk in the East Village
— walkingoffthebigapple.com — Sometimes it's not about where to walk but when. Certain hours of the day carry with them... their own qualities, and strange as it may sound, I am fond of the quiet mystery of the early morning. Just before sunrise the day has not yet lost its patina of night, and ever so gradually, the velvety ... (more) An Early Morning Walk in the East Village
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A Literary Holiday Gift Guide: Best New Books on New York, New York
walkingoffthebigapple.com - 14 days ago
A Literary Holiday Gift Guide: Best New Books on New York, New York
— walkingoffthebigapple.com — Not surprisingly, New York as a subject generates a lot of books. Each year the shelves in... the New York section of bookstores become overcrowded with new books about the city, each one adding something different to a vast body of city literature. This year the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's ... (more) A Literary Holiday Gift Guide: Best New Books on New ...

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walkingoffthebigapple.com - 17 days ago
Shopping for Dinner at the Union Square Greenmarket: A Slideshow of Seasonal Bounty
— walkingoffthebigapple.com — Walking through the Union Square Greenmarket, I often feel like such an amateur. Dumfounded by the varieties... of potatoes, rutabagas, turnips, squash, or heirloom tomatoes on display and what to do with them, I often beat a retreat to the bakery stands. Here among the pumpkin tea cakes, ... (more) Shopping for Dinner at the Union Square Greenmarket: A ...

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A Walk to See Carl Jung's Red Book: A Journey Into the Psyche
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A Walk to See Carl Jung's Red Book: A Journey Into the Psyche
— feedproxy.google.com — Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung (July 1875 – June 1961) embarked on an extraordinary journey in the years... before World War I, a dangerous adventure that took him inward to the deepest recesses of his psyche. At the time he embarked on the journey he had broken his close relationship with his ... (more) A Walk to See Carl Jung's Red Book: A Journey Into the ...

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walkingoffthebigapple.com - 23 days ago
A New York Yankees State of Mind
— walkingoffthebigapple.com — 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 the nearby streets under a sunny sky. Like many ... (more) A New York Yankees State of Mind

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20 Short Walks between New York Landmarks
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20 Short Walks between New York Landmarks
— walkingoffthebigapple.com — 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 nearby landmarks with a pleasant stroll ... (more) 20 Short Walks between New York Landmarks

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Chatting with the Dead, A Steampunk Haunted House, the Village Halloween Parade and Other Events For Halloween Week in New York
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Chatting with the Dead, A Steampunk Haunted House, the Village Halloween Parade and Other Events ...
— feedproxy.google.com — 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 creator of Sherlock Holmes, was an early ... (more) Chatting with the Dead, A Steampunk Haunted House, the ...

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E. L. Doctorow's Homer & Langley
walkingoffthebigapple.com - 10/23/2009
E. L. Doctorow's Homer & Langley
— walkingoffthebigapple.com — Homer & Langley, the sweet, funny and often heartbreakingly new 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 the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan ... (more) E. L. Doctorow's Homer & Langley

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"I love this dirty town": J.J. Hunsecker and the New York of Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
walkingoffthebigapple.com - 10/16/2009
"I love this dirty town": J.J. Hunsecker and the New York of Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
— walkingoffthebigapple.com — 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 glorious black and white by master ... (more) "I love this dirty town": J.J. Hunsecker and the New ...

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Gumshoes: A Partial Lineup of New York Detectives in American Crime Fiction
walkingoffthebigapple.com - 10/7/2009
Gumshoes: A Partial Lineup of New York Detectives in American Crime Fiction
— walkingoffthebigapple.com — 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 replaced leather on some shoes in the ... (more) Gumshoes: A Partial Lineup of New York Detectives in ...
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