Quoted: lines of Greenpoint defined by their steel, brick and vinyl.

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"lyrical telekinesis"

Quoted: One of the best rap videos ever done

Quoted: 20th century and contemporary photographs including: Berenice Abbott, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Larry Fink, Lynn Geesaman, Kenneth Josephson, Nadav Kander, Yousuf Karsh, Andre Kertesz, Masatomo Kuriya, Robert Mapplethorpe,Lisette Model, Andrew Moore, Eliot Porter, Marion Post Wolcott, Sebastiao Salgado, Julius Shulman.

This lighthouse looks really beautiful. It's also a bed & breakfast. The site includes a great history and photo archive.

Interesting look back at the neighborhood that became Lincoln Center.

Quoted: This kind of activity has characterized the neighborhood since the 1960s. But long before President Dwight D. Eisenhower broke ground for the Lincoln Center performing arts complex in 1959, the area from Columbus Circle through the neighborhoods called Lincoln Square and San Juan Hill was already something of an arts center. Jazz and opera and rock ’n’ roll, Shakespeare and Ibsen and musical theater, the visual arts and the invention of the Charleston all happened there.

Quoted: Urban Neighbors celebrates a glorious and often overlooked phenomenon of New York City: the abundance of wildlife within its five boroughs. It refutes the canard that pigeons, cockroaches, and rats are the city’s only local wild fauna.

Works by Cuban emigre Diango Hernández...

The New Museum reopens on December 1st!

Quoted: The New Museum is delighted to annouce Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa/ SANAA Ltd. as architects of the our new building on the Bowery.

Showing along with an exhibition of storyboards and other production material...

Quoted: a chance to see the 15-and-a-half-hour epic—an adaptation of Alfred Döblin's 1929 novel of the same title—in more digestible pieces beginning October 21, when P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center screens each episode within a single innovative exhibition.