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Polar Plunge gets the pop culture treatment on “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”.

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South Park captures the gestalt of gentrification and real estate development in its latest episode, about the town’s new South of Downtown South Park (SoDoSoPa) historic district.

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Sidewalk Nevada. First Ave & 58th. #NYC

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Oof. Has the caché of a neighborhood ever risen and fallen as fast as that of Williamsburg in Brooklyn?

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“Don’t you wanna know how they got in there?”   -Elaine  New Yorkers missed an opportunity to catch the classic comedy “Sack Lunch” this winter, just like Elaine missed it in Season 8, Episode 17 of Seinfeld, when she had to endure repeated viewings of The English Patient instead. I was walking past the now-shuttered New York Regal Cinemas on Second Avenue at 64th St.—complete with outdated listings on its marquee—when I spotted some full-size promo posters for “Sack Lunch” taped in the windows.

Clearly, someone with access to the vacant theater has some free time, Photoshop chops, and an abiding love for the quintessential NYC sitcom about nothing. 

Seinfeld featured a number of fictional movie titles during its long run on network television. Which fictional titles would you like to see advertised as real attractions coming to a theater near you?

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East River Treadmill- tug Catherine C Miller chugs along to stay in place against incoming tide. #NYC

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The hand-painted wall art at the @HumaneSocietyNY makes a vet visit more bearable. Please follow and support them.

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Pug vs French, Park Ave. #MarchMadness #NYC

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Tough old rascal… #NYC

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Defying maritime convention, that tug is named "Mister T". #NYC

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Winter's shrinking endgame. #CentralPark #NYC

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Coney Island cat enjoys a drink of melted snow on the boardwalk.

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Winter Only Makes Us Stronger (by thelexiphane)

Peter Regli’s dozen “Snow Monsters” in the triangle north of 23rd St. are made of marble, but a steady downfall of snow on Sunday seemed to bring the installation to life.

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Mr. Alaska (by thelexiphane)

William Seward looks out over 23rd St. and the Flatiron in a swirling snowstorm. Sec. of State Seward was ridiculed when the U.S. purchased the Alaskan territory—identified as Seward’s Folly, or more awesomely, President Andrew Johnson’s ‘Polar Bear Garden.’

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Tragic Metaphor Alert

Writer, comedian, and "Parks & Rec" executive producer Harris Wittels died from a drug overdose this week. Wittels had a recurring part in the show, where he played a dimwitted animal control officer in the fictional town of Pawnee, IN.  A recent episode had him experimenting with a friend and co-worker in a literal mind-altering experiment: slowly squeezing his head in a vise. The dialogue is a tragically apt metaphor for drug abuse.

"We are on our OWN quest, which is to squeeze this [vise] just tight enough to make my eyes bulge out a little, but not so tight that I die."

It is a tightrope walk that Wittels did not survive.

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Winter: Deal With It! #NYC