“The kids can’t read anymore, they’re a bunch of morons, so what are you gonna do?” And that pretty much sums up the legend that is Joe Leisner, the no-bullsh*t owner of Comic Book Heaven, formerly located in Sunnyside, Queens NY. Let’s meet him…
I was having a little dig through the New York Public Library Flickr archives today and found an album of photographs taken by Berenice Abbott between 1935-1938 called, “Changing New York“. These photos are part of her documentation of New York City for the Federal Art Project (FAP), which was a Depression-era government program for unemployed…
It’s a (concrete) jungle out there when it comes to finding the perfect place to rest your head at the end of an action-packed day in New York City. Are you going to choose from the long list of twenty-story plaza hotels where every room is identical, or are you in search of something unique and off-beat? What I’m…
The street in front of Alberto Rodriguez’s auto repair shop in Queens is radioactive. There is also a deli and a construction business on the same block where the first contamination happened almost a hundred years ago. This is the story of New York’s most radioactive site that is now New York City’s third superfund…
As much as I wish I could travel back and forth between Paris and New York (by way of my own secret portal disguised as a telephone booth, of course) for now, I’ve chosen Paris to roam and explore down to the very last cobblestone street. But that doesn’t mean I haven’t been taking notes…
When I was about twelve or thirteen, I remember watching an episode of my favourite Nickelodeon cartoon, Hey Arnold, entitled “Pigeon Man”, about a mysterious hermit who lived on a New York rooftop with pigeons. Very few people had seen him and only rumours circulated amongst the neighbourhood kids about the ‘Legend of the Pigeon…
In Boerum Place, Brooklyn, New York lives a man in an apartment with many things. Chong Gon Byun is his name and he arrived in New York City from Korea 25 years ago. Your initial thoughts on Byun might be that he is an obsessive vintage gatherer, a flea market bargain hunter, a hoarder. But a closer…
