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New Yorkers can start 2025 with a meteor shower and great views of Mars – Gothamist
Stargazers can celebrate the new year by looking up at one of the briefest meteor showers of the year.On the first five days of 2025, the Quadrantid meteor shower will streak across the sky with a peak of 40 shooting stars per hour. But January’s headliner is Mars, which will be at its biggest and…
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Libraries unveil the books New Yorkers couldn’t put down in 2024
CITYWIDE Libraries unveil the books New Yorkers couldn’t put down in 2024 By Erica Brosnan New York City, PUBLISHED 11:35 AM ET Dec. 27, 2024 As the year comes to a close, the New York Public Library has unveiled the top checked-out books of 2024. For the first time, the city’s three library systems —…
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Salman Rushdie says ‘attack on books’ in Florida ‘has never been more dangerous’
By Melissa Alonso and Jackson Grigsby, CNN, Published 3:51 AM EDT, Fri May 19, 2023 Less than a year after an attempt on his life, author Salman Rushdie made a rare public appearance at an awards ceremony Thursday to warn of the dangers of banning books and of related movements in the US to roll…
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Exclusive: The Brooklyn Public Library is announcing its most borrowed books of all time – Gothamist
By Kerry Shaw. Published Nov 14, 2022, Modified Nov 14, 2022 We’ve got the list. You might not expect to find “Candide” and “Captain Underpants” on the same lineup, but here we are. Since late October, the Brooklyn Public Library has been releasing information about the most popular books in its 125-year history. The “drops”…
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New York’s Farm Sanctuary Is Magical And You Should Visit | Only in Your State
By Christy Articola, June 15, 2022 Farm Sanctuary is an incredible place! If you love animals, then you’re going to absolutely adore everything about it. This Watkins Glen animal sanctuary is home to more than 800 rescued farm animals on nearly 300 acres. Each and every one of them will live on this property happily…
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America’s last Howard Johnson’s restaurant has closed – CNN
By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business, Updated 1:51 PM ET, Wed June 1, 2022 New York (CNN Business) The last surviving Howard Johnson’s restaurant has closed. Open for most of the past 70 years, the restaurant was located in Lake George, New York, a popular summer vacation spot near the Adirondack Mountains. \The restaurant closed its…
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American Business History in “The Gilded Age” | Inside Adams: Science, Technology & Business | Library of Congress
February 24, 2022 by Ellen Terrell Given its underlying business themes, The Gilded Age, which premiered on HBO in January 2022, quickly caught my attention. The show’s first season, which is set in 1882 in the rapidly changing New York City landscape, revolves around the clash between the mores of old New York society and…
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Sherlock Holmes, Scientific Detective | The New Yorker
Arthur Conan Doyle’s creation was born into an age of stunning change. How did Holmes react to his era? By Rivka Galchen, January 31, 2022 The Grolier Club, a private society for bibliophiles on the Upper East Side, with its marble foyer and dark wood-panelled gallery, would be a fine stage for a nineteenth-century fictional…
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Christmas in New York: 15 Festive Things To Do in NYC | Condé Nast Traveler
Our editors’ favorite holiday activities in the city they call home. By Alex Erdekian, December 7, 2020 We’re all looking for silver linings these days—and we’ve got one for you. This Christmas season in New York City is sort of peaceful. There are fewer tourists crowding Midtown sidewalks, no social pressure to attend every holiday…
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Smithsonian Artifacts That Tell the Story of 9/11 | At the Smithsonian | Smithsonian Magazine
From a Pentagon rescuer’s uniform to a Flight 93 crew log, these objects commemorate the 20th anniversary of a national tragedy By Meilan Solly, SMITHSONIANMAG.COM | Sept. 8, 2021, 8:43 a.m. Following the tragedies that took place on September 11, 2001, curators at the Smithsonian Institution recognized the urgency of documenting this unprecedented moment in…
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What Structural Engineers Learned from 9/11 – Scientific American
By Donald Dusenberry, on September 8, 2021 Members of the profession study such tragic events to try and ensure that something similar won’t happen again https://anchor.fm/drweb/embed/episodes/What-Structural-Engineers-Learned-from-911–Scientific-American-e17579v The events of 9/11 shook the world. Before that day, we could not imagine that someone would be bold and cruel enough to enact such violence. We could not…
