Me and my buddies used to play touch football in front of the window that looks onto the Temple of Dendur at the Met. This game I was either going to score a touchdown, or tackle the window.
Ellis Island is typically a museum by day. However, a friend of mine took over the entire island and had her Bat Mitzvah party there. Her party happened to coincide with one of the most important Yankee games in the history of the team.
Only in New York would the city government preserve a two hundred year old window. The Sugar House Window rests in a free-standing brick wall symbolizing the pain of the American prisoners of war during the American Revolution.
The former governor of New York and Vice President died of a heart attack in his home while he was working on a “book” with his young secretary. The bizarre events that transpired lead many to believe that Rockefeller had a heart attack mid-coitus.
At the Engelhard Gallery, an original letter between two literary giants is displayed: an exchange about the art of fiction, between George Plimpton and Earnest Hemmingway.