#nyc legends

[takunwilliams]

nas big pun 

[lstnrr]

A look inside Miss Piggy’s creator's art-filled Brooklyn duplex - Gothamist

The apartment is filled with art by their friends and acquaintances. The Chuck Close self-portrait was created out of paper, handmade by the master printer Joe Wilfer. The suit is a collaboration between Sydney Maresca and Kenneth Goldsmith, who recited stream-of-consciousness poetry for 12 hours. Each hour was transcribed and turned into a suit – theirs is 4 pm.

[theartofsupafly]

Bronx Legends

[notesonnewyork]

“Anyone who wants to Q, I will pretend to A.”

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(With New York City historian Mike Wallace in Arnhold Hall at The New School. Photo by Riff Chorusriff. What he said just before taking a few questions from the audience. January 29, 2018....

Twenty years after co-writing “Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning Wallace has returned on his own to offer the sequel. Running over 1,100 pages long, “Greater Gotham” delves into the myriad of happenings between 1898 and 1919. He originally planed to conclude this outing with World War II, but the pounds of information he assembled necessitated a less ponderous book. And after carrying it home myself, I can’t imagine a 3,000 word affair being any easier to stow in my backpack.

Speaking in a grandfatherly voice of equal parts humor, erudition, and fabulous phrasing, Wallace relayed stories from the book and illuminated its themes. Unsurprisingly, the big ones at play in New York back then are just as present as they ever were: battles between classes, ethnicities, races, and genders. Even his overreaching subtext of people consolidating power is still with us, or at least repeating itself 100 years later. Just walk down any street in midtown and you’ll see the affect corporate mergers and acquisitions have had on the landscape. Yesterday’s J.P. Morgans and John D. Rockefellers have become today’s S.L. Greens, New York Universities, and Chinese multinationals. 

Wallace, though, is a New York treasure. I first saw him on PBS Channel Thirteen in Ric Burns’ mesmerizing “New York: A Documentary Film.” After the events of 9-11, I found great comfort there among its hours of history and sparked a fascination with the city that has yet to abandon me. Along with Craig Steven Wilder, Marshall Berman, and Pete Hamill, Wallace was one of the commentators whose insights were both riveting and downright real. In fact, I can still replay some of his segments in my mind. When he begins, it’s as if he’s opening his door and inviting you into his apartment for a long drink. Connecting with him in person tonight, I finally got to live in that image.)

[theladymisskier]

Fall back friday... I met her at the Pyramid and asked her to perform in my window at Area . At some point , Kathlene was given the nickname  "Ta-da". I think it was around the time she decided  confronting her fear of men by working in a peep show on 42nd street and taking a shit after her dance ...saying "Ta-dah" .Driving across 42nd st.  one nite in my tricked out rusty cutlass supreme , i saw the Marque billing  for "the shit woman" and I knew it was her they were talking about . She  def gave them a show....Uptown she had an entirely different audience and was known as the "white witch of Harlem" . She's   kind, curious , beautiful no matter how hard she tried to not be and    had the ability to entertain in a way no one else has matched.Her presence made me question obscenity in this world. She taught me to gravitate towards everything I love no matter how odd ,  and to continue to live an interesting good life.