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Monthly Archives: December 2010
Groove is in the New Year
Never ones to succumb New Year party peer pressure, the 106thstreeters headed out to Williamsburg to enjoy New Year celebrations one night early at Zebulon. How could we resist a line up of a few of our favorite musical things? … Continue reading
Posted in Exploring New York City, Heading Out in the Evening
Tagged Brooklyn, DJs, Williamsburg
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Thundersnow With a Side of Blizzard
Twenty Inches! That’s an incredible number for total snowfall in Central Park, but that’s the story of the massive Blizzard of 2010. From buses stranded all over the city to snow piling up inside subway stations to the rare occurrence … Continue reading
Posted in East Harlem Life
Tagged Central Park, Harlem, Harlem Meer, snow, thundersnow, winter
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I Pugni in Tasca (Fists in the Pocket)
We here at 106th Street love cinema. In fact, if it weren’t for cinema the 106thstreeters would never have met, forged our way back across country, and returned our family names to their proper North American East Coast origins. Like … Continue reading
‘Twas the Night After Glöggfest
‘Twas the night after Glöggfest, when all through the flat, not a creature was stirring, not even a rat.” Holidays in NYC are not milquetoast Middle America. They are citified, but not necessarily fancified. In New York, rats and Ratkings … Continue reading
The 14th Annual Glöggfest
Glöggfest 2010 got off to a Bang Bang Push Push here in El Barrio. With the help of Joe Cuba, Shuggie Otis, Hector Lavoe, Fela Kuti, Run DMC, and the jazzoliday vibes from A Charlie Brown Christmas, the Glögg warmed … Continue reading
Posted in East Harlem Life, Eat, Drink & Be Merry
Tagged drinking, glögg, holidays, Spanish Harlem
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Pete Hamill and the American Vision
Leave it to Brooklyn native Pete Hamill to nail why immigrants are now and have always been the bedrock of our country. The son of two Irish immigrants, this second generation American writer knows first hand what it’s like to … Continue reading
‘Tis The Season…
Some people go crazy for Rockefeller Center during the holidays. We don’t mind a nice viewing from the M5 bus, but trying to wade through the crowds wrapped in waddling clothes is a bit too much. Take out 99% of … Continue reading
Big Apple Love, Worms and All
If you’re into NYC history, or like the 106thstreeters who oft have to quote reliable sources about it, then The Encyclopedia of New York City is that go-to source. One of the coolest museum milers and neighbor to the 106thstreeters, … Continue reading
Home Is Where The Brew Is
And speaking of guts and instinct…it was much to our surprise, when our friend/neighbor across the hall invited us to a craft beer tour organized by guess who…yup…Mr. Joshua M. Bernstein. Every few weeks he organizes a crawl to get … Continue reading
Posted in Eat, Drink & Be Merry, Heading Out in the Evening
Tagged beer, drinking, homebrew
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Gut Check
Does anyone else still read the free weekly NY Press? Yes, it’s made of paper, you can’t download it to your iPadAppDroid (yet), and you have to retrieve it out of a pee soaked plastic box on the sidewalk. But … Continue reading
Posted in Eat, Drink & Be Merry, Exploring New York City
Tagged beer, drinking, food
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