Pizza in Park Slope
Jeremiah gives us a (wonderful but depressing) rundown of all the New York history destroyed by redevelopment in 2007. [Vanishing New York]
Roosevelt Island’s super-spooky Renwick Ruin, New York’s former smallpox hospital turned haunted mansion, is falling apart. [City Room]
Corona, Queens’ Jewish community may get landmark status bestowed on its 97 year old synagogue. [Queens Crap]
Thomas Edison electrocutes an elephant on Coney Island 105 years and one day ago [Gothamist] and watch the bizarre video [Kinetic Carnival]
Are the days of chain stores and coffee shops finally numbered in the East Village? [The Villager]