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Submitted: 04/28/2007 |
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Forty Carrots
After viewing this odd structure, you may want something cold and refreshing. Forty Carrots has some of the best yogurt in the city. Located in the bottom of Bloomingdale's, this place has good flavors and can almost go toe-to-toe with Pinkberry, the reigning yogurt king in town. |
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| By: JSafro |
Submitted: 04/23/2007 |
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Sunday Brunch
Are you tired of eating the same old bagels and lox from Barney Greengrass every Sunday morning with the family? Have you had enough of the Zillion Dollar Frittata at Norma’s? If you have, maybe you should try an alternative Sunday Brunch. Every Sunday afternoon, at 12:30 PM and 2:30 PM at The Blue Note, you can have your eggs and eat them too. Devour a tasty brunch while listening to some of the city’s best jazz music. |
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| By: JSafro |
Submitted: 04/23/2007 |
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Zabar’s Catering
The Jewish in-laws are coming over to celebrate Passover at your house. However, you don’t know how to make Matzoh Ball Soup. No problem! Just call Zabar’s catering at (212) 787-2000 and have Zabar’s cater your entire Sedar. |
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| By: JSafro |
Submitted: 04/23/2007 |
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Friday Night With Greg Giraldo
On Friday nights, veteran comedian Greg Giraldo takes the stage to host his Friday night special show. This show is legendary for its hilarity, so book in advance. Call (212) 479-0801. |
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| By: JSafro |
Submitted: 04/23/2007 |
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Evolution Studios Soho
Are you feeling particularly flabby during your architectural walking tour through the cast iron glory otherwise known as Greene Street? If so, Evolution Studios, located on the 2nd Floor of 72 Greene Street (The King of Greene Street) is the place for you. This is one of the most exclusive, and expensive, luxury gyms in all of New York City. They specialize in private conditioning, Yoga, and state of the art equipment. If you came to Soho looking flabby, you will leave the King of Greene Street in state of the art condition. |
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| By: JSafro |
Submitted: 06/01/2007 |
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sign up for a private lesson
If the group thing gets you down and you want to do Trapeze all buy yourself, sign up for a private lesson. |
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| By: JSafro |
Submitted: 06/01/2007 |
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join a performance team
build a group act around flying trapeze, juggling, acrobatics, doubles trapeze, hand balancing and many other skills |
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| By: JSafro |
Submitted: 04/23/2007 |
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Before designing the Guggenheim Museum, iconic architect Frank Lloyd Wright proclaimed that his structure would make the Metropolitan Museum of Art look like “a protestant barn.” |
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| By: JSafro |
Submitted: 04/23/2007 |
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McSorley’s was founded by John McSorley, an Irish immigrant who fled Ireland because of the potato famine. |
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| By: JSafro |
Submitted: 04/23/2007 |
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The Sunshine Cinemas building first became a theater in 1909, when two Russian Jewish entrepreneurs decided to buy the building and convert the church pulpit into a stage. The building became known as the Houston Hippodrome and would showcase Vaudeville acts and short films. |
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| By: JSafro |
Submitted: 04/23/2007 |
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The tenement building at 97 Orchard Street was built by a German immigrant named Lukas Glockner. Glockner made a small fortune providing other immigrants with affordable housing. |
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| By: JSafro |
Submitted: 04/23/2007 |
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The former president of the New York Stock Exchange, Richard Grasso, is a frequent diner at Rao’s, the famous Harlem Italian restaurant. |
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| By: JSafro |
Submitted: 04/23/2007 |
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The Flatiron Building was originally called the Fuller Building because it housed the Fuller Construction Company. |
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| By: JSafro |
Submitted: 04/23/2007 |
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Chelsea Piers were the site of the departure of the 1936 United States Olympic Team. During that Olympics in Berlin, Jesse Owens won four gold medals in track and field. |
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| By: JSafro |
Submitted: 04/23/2007 |
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The Gaptsow Bridge, a Central Park icon, is located at the north end of the pond. The original bridge was wooden and built in 1874. However, twenty years later the wood was replaced with the stone bridge structure still around today. |
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| By: JSafro |
Submitted: 04/23/2007 |
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Columbia University was originally called King’s College. It received the name King’s College because it was founded in 1754 with a royal charter from King George II of England. |
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