A rush of foot traffic at Macy’s Department Store the week before Christmas, 1942 (photo by Marjory Collins, courtesy LOC)
Upstairs Witih Alice: What’s it like living upstairs to history? Ask Paul Moakley, curator at the Alice Austen House in Staten Island. [New York Times]
I Feel Like Chicken Tonight: The heartwarming story of a Brooklyn boy in 1851 and his three naked chickens. [Virtual Dime Museum]
Deutsch Treat: I have asked this question many times myself: Who goes to Rolf’s, the extravagantly decorated German restuarant near Gramercy Park [Lost City]
Ashes to Ashes: A close look at the Iron Triangle in Queens and its connection to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and the ‘valley of ashes’. [Architakes]
Hanging Out: Fairyland Kiddie Park, Krasner’s Pharmacy and other classic old signs throughout the city, barely hanging on. [Forgotten New York]