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Lessening The Brain Drain

GrayFoxDown wrote 2 weeks ago: A study at UCLA has found that the Internet is actually “good” for the brain. (And all t … more →

Tags: I Say, Baby Boomer, BBC, Etch-a-Sketch, Forbidden Planet, Lost in Space, Robby the robot, Space, university of california los angeles

Movie Mystique

GrayFoxDown wrote 3 weeks ago: Edward Hopper (American, American Realism, 1882-1967): New York Movie, 1939. Oil on canvas, 32-1/4 x … more →

Tags: Christie, Edward Hopper, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York City, Roosevelt Island, united states, Whitney Museum of American Art

The Allure of Spectacular Destruction

GrayFoxDown wrote 3 weeks ago: Does any rational adult actually care about this self-destructive jejune, Amanda Bynes, amidst the s … more →

Tags: I Say, amandabynes, chris brown, Courtney Love, new york city police department, Nickelodeon, Rihanna, tmz .com, twitter

A Spur to Social Conscience

GrayFoxDown wrote 1 month ago: In 1939, Dorothy Parker wrote about her social conscience in an essay called “Not Enough. … more →

Tags: I Say, Algonquin Hotel, Dorothy Parker, New York, People, united states

The High Fashion of Defiance?

GrayFoxDown wrote 1 month ago: “PUNK: Chaos to Couture” opens today! Featuring more than 100 designs for men and women, the exhibit … more →

Tags: Sign of the Times, art museums, Arts and Entertainment, fashion design, haute couture, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museums, New York City, Vivienne Westwood

Urban Chess

GrayFoxDown wrote 1 month ago: Would you play a game in this Manhattan Cafe? via Chess My father taught me to play chess when I was … more →

Greenwich Village

GrayFoxDown wrote 1 month ago: Reblogged from Fabulous 50's: Greenwich Village in New York City is very similar to what I had … more →

Tags: I Say, Art, Greenwich Village, New York City, Travel and Tourism

The Telescope Man of Union Square

GrayFoxDown wrote 1 month ago: The infinite twinkling of the stars, not the temporal glistening of neon, are what enraptured him. T … more →

Tags: Manhattan, New York City, New York Times, Union Square, astronomy, Times, Telescope, Amateur Astronomy

For Those of Us Who Still Care

GrayFoxDown wrote 1 month ago: A U.S. flag flutters in the wind as the final piece of One World Trade Center‘s spire is lifte … more →

Tags: New York City, New York, united states, One World Trade Center, September 11 attacks, list of tallest buildings in new york city, Flag of the United States, spire

Brightening Up the Boardwalk — 1 comment

GrayFoxDown wrote 1 month ago: 4.27.2004 Gretchen Mol in Coney Island filming a TV movie, “The Ballad of Bettie Page.” … more →

Tags: Arts and Entertainment, Baby Boomer, Brooklyn, Coney Island, coney island cyclone, Cyclone, Gretchen Mol, New York City, Television & Film

"As I Stood There, 'Twixt Earth and Sky"

GrayFoxDown wrote 1 month ago: The Empire State Building has been named by the American Society of Civil Engineers as one of the Se … more →

Tags: Sketches, Empire State Building, New York City, New York, New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, Statue of Liberty, winston churchill, John J Raskob, Solomon Islands

Head Swimming on the Hudson

GrayFoxDown wrote 1 month ago: The crew team at New York’s Marist College came across a puzzling sight this week when a large … more →

Tags: New York City, New York, Hudson River, Hurricane Sandy, Marist College, Mardi Gras, Hurricane Katrina, Poughkeepsie New York

De Niro and Lil Bub at Tribeca

GrayFoxDown wrote 1 month ago: This interaction is, perhaps, the best thing that’s happened at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival … more →

Tags: New York City, New York, united states, Movies, Cats, Arts, Tribeca Film Festival, Robert DeNiro, film festival

Judas at the Plate?

GrayFoxDown wrote 1 month ago: LITERALLY GIVING AWAY THE PLATE! 4.18.1958 – Dodger president Walter O’Malley presents t … more →

Tags: I Say, Brooklyn, New York City, Robert Moses, Los Angeles, Ebbets Field, Walter O'Malley, Dodger, Los Angeles Dodgers

Cutting the Battery Ribbon

GrayFoxDown wrote 2 months ago: Battery Tunnel Opening, Ribbon Cutting by a boy wearing a [Brooklyn] Dodgers Cap Brooklyn Borough Pr … more →

Tags: Brooklyn, New York City, NYC, Robert Moses, technology, People, Seattle, Robert F. Wagner, Robert Moses State Park

Fog-Shrouded Morn at Coney — 4 comments

GrayFoxDown wrote 2 months ago: I have to thank my buddy Chris for taking my camera to take this picture for me this morning – … more →

Tags: Brooklyn, Coney Island, Photography

Increased Security Contradictions

GrayFoxDown wrote 2 months ago: Note: This was originally posted 08/18/2008, but I thought it would be of some relevant or digressiv … more →

Tags: Sign of the Times, New York City, New York, united states, Hudson River, nuclear reactor, Indian Point Energy Center, Chernobyl Disaster, chernobyl

Time's Fluid Visualizations — 2 comments

GrayFoxDown wrote 2 months ago: Times Square In his series, “Day to Night,” Stephen Wilkes photographs a scene “for a minimum of ten … more →

Tags: united states, Literature, Art, Stephen Wilkes, visual narrative, Narrative, Fluid, wilkes

The Yankees Of Yesterday

GrayFoxDown wrote 2 months ago: Today in 1923: Newly-built Yankee Stadium, Bronx home of the New York Yankees, opens with a game aga … more →

Tags: I Say, bronx, New York City, New York Yankees, Yankee Stadium, Babe Ruth, New-York Historical Society, Boston Red Sox, Yankee


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