Here is TheDailyNewYorker’s list of NYC Quotes.

When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.— Fran Lebowitz, Rand Lindsly’s Quotations.

New York remains what it has always been: a city of ebb and flow, a city of constant shifts of population and economics, a city of virtually no rest. It is harsh, dirty, and dangerous, it is whimsical and fanciful, it is beautiful and soaring, it is not one or another of these things but all of them, all at once, and to fail to accept this paradox is to deny the reality of city existence.— Paul Goldberger

The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.— John Updike

The city of right angles and tough, damaged people.— Pete Hamill

One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years— Thomas Wolfe

It couldn’t have happened anywhere but in little old New York.— O. Henry

This is New York and there’s no law against being annoying— William Kunstler

When you leave New York, you ain’t goin’ nowhere

New York is to the nation what the white spire is to the village – the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up!— E.B. White

It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck. No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.— E.B. White, Here is New York

This is the town that never sleeps. That’s why we don’t live in Duluth. That plus I don’t know where Duluth is. Lucky me.— Woody Allen, Manhattan Murder Mystery

The renowned and ancient city of Gotham.— Washington Irving, Salmagundi

Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.— Irving Berlin

If you’re bored in New York, it’s your own fault.— Myrna Loy

One need never leave the confines of New York to get all the greenery one wishes—I can’t even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there’s a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life.— Frank O’Hara

No matter where you go in the world, you never really leave New York, and it never really leaves you.— Billy Joel

We’re not consumers. Amen, we’re citizens and this is not a corporation. This is not a corporation, this is New York City!— Rev. Billy, Running for Mayor of NYC 2009

In 1626, the Dutch purchased Manhattan Island from the Lenape Native Americans for 60 guilders (about $1000).

in 1895 Gennaro Lombardi opened the first United States pizzeria.

Nothing is more revealing than movement.— Martha Graham

When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you photograph, when you laugh and cry with their laughter and tears, you will know you are on the right track.— Weegee

Mighty Manhattan with spires, and the sparkling and hurrying tides.— Walt Whitman

We watched the world go home that night
In a flood through Union Square…— Sara Teasdale

New Yorkers are nice about giving directions; in fact, they seem proud of knowing where they are themesleves.— Katherine Bush

New York is the greatest place where the lights meet the road.— G. N. Miller

Abandon your homes- We must build a bridge.— Robert Moses

The Empire State Building is the lighthouse of Manhattan— Robert A. M. Stern

O West Side that I am- I dip my toes in the hot sun-head wreathed with the trees of Central Park.— D. H. Melhem

Tremulously I stand in the subways, absorbed into the terrible reverberations of exploding energy.— Helen Keller

But, Ah! Manhattan’s sights and sounds, her smells, Her crowds, her throbbing force…— James Weldon Johnson

What can ever be more stately and admirable to me than masthemm’d Manhattan?— Walt Whitman

As usual in New York, everything is torn down before you have time to care for it.— James Merrill

From the ruins [of the old Waldorf Astoria], lonely and inexplicable as the shpinx, rose the Empire State Building— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I could take the Harlem night and wrap it around you, take the neon lights and make you a crown.— Langston Hughes

There is nothing more beautiful than New York City in the snow.— Mayor Rudy Giuliani

It was one of those late May evenings when New York seems to beth hug you and summon you on towards some reward to be found in that city and nowhere else.— Howell Raines

Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life.— Robert Moses

I’d rather be a lamppost in New York than the mayor of Chicago.— NYC Mayor Jimmy Walker

New York is still here. We’ve suffered terrible losses and we will grieve for them, but we will be here, tomorrow and forever.— Mayor Rudy Giuliani

New York City- the place with the most gorgeous women and the best food in the world.— Bob Dylan

The city’s got the right name- New York. Nothing ever gets old around here.— Ralph Stephenson

If I live in New York, it is because I choose to live here. It is the city of total intensity, the city of the moment.— Diana Vreeland

I love New York because within its borders you can travel the world.— Dennis Gonzalez

This city is the center of the universe.— Mayor Robert F. Wagner

Other cities consume culture, New York creates it.— Paul Goldberger

Manhattan… How fit a name for America’s great democratic island city!— Walt Whitman

I’d like to thank the good Lord for making me a Yankee.— Joe Dimaggio

New York is where the future comesl to audition.— Mayor Ed Koch

New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world.— F. Scott Fitzgerald

It’s a miracle that New York works at all. The whole thing is implausible.— E. B. White

The present in New York is so powerful that the post is lost.— John Jay Chapman

The City. See, that’s what we call it. The rest of the world calls it the Apple… We call it the City and let it go at that.— Lawrence Block

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City itself is a detective story.— Agatha Christie

In New York you can have anything you want, and even in the old days you could, too, so that hasn’t changed.— Brooke Astor

The city makes you want more. I travel the world, but find my real inspiration comes from New York.— James Kieran Pine

New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock.— Gyogy Ligeti

Once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.— John Steinbeck

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!— Emma Lazarus

New Development Will Add a Full-Service Restaurant and Other Tenants to Already Vibrant Retail Corridor in Booming Neighborhood

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz today announced that United American Land will develop 49,000 square feet of retail space in the City-owned Brooklyn Municipal Building at 210 Joralemon Street in Downtown Brooklyn.

United American Land will transform the western portion of the first, second, and below-grade floors of the space; creating a lively, pedestrian-friendly, and unique retail space that will serve as an anchor for the Court Street retail corridor in the City’s third largest Central Business District.

While tenants have not yet been selected, there will be multiple retail tenants in the space and one of them will be a full-service restaurant. Construction is expected to begin in 2012, and the project will create 64 full-time construction jobs and 114 permanent jobs.

The space is currently being occupied by the Department of Finance, which will relocate and consolidate within the building and to other City-owned space. This development will build upon the City’s efforts to revitalize Downtown Brooklyn and is a product of a City initiative, announced in the 2010 State of the City Speech, to use space it owns and leases more efficiently.

The Brooklyn Municipal Building is a 13-story, 383,000 square foot structure erected in 1925 and designed by architects Mckenzie, Voorhees & Gmelin.  Adjacent to the iconic Brooklyn Borough Hall, the site has excellent transit access and is served by 14 subway lines, 16 buses, and yields over 1,800 pedestrians per midday hour.  The area around the building is a vibrant mix of cultural and community organizations, civic and academic institutions, commercial and residential buildings, all interspersed with open space.

Since its rezoning in 2004, Downtown Brooklyn has been undergoing a dynamic transformation as a result of billions of dollars in public and private investments, and has become a shopping and dining destination attracting more than 150,000 shoppers daily.

Already one of the city’s most active central business districts, Downtown Brooklyn is home to one of the busiest retail corridors in the nation and more than 100,000 office workers, over 40 arts and cultural organizations, as well as eight universities and colleges educating some 57,000 students. 

Since 2006, Downtown Brooklyn has experienced some 7.8 million square feet of development including over 590,000 square feet of retail space and 236,000 square feet of office space. This space will complement and add to the growing retail landscape in Downtown Brooklyn.

Major retailers have opened nearby and many more projects are underway. The first phase of the nearby CityPoint development includes 50,000 square feet of retail and is expected to be completed in the summer of 2012. DeKalb Market, an open-air market occupies the space where future phases of the CityPoint development will occur.

Here is TheDailyNewYorker’s listings of free museum days in NYC! Please call to confirm days and time. If you would like to add a free event to this list contact us.

American Folk Art Museum
Free Fridays 5:30pm – 7:30pm
45 West 53rd Street New York, NY 10019
(212) 265-1040

The American Numismatic Society
Always free
96 Fulton Street New York NY 10038
(212) 571-4470

Artists Space
Free Tuesday to Saturday, 11am – 6pm
38 Greene Street 3rd Floor New York NY 10013
(212) 226-3970

Asia Society Museum
Free Fridays 6pm – 9pm
725 Park Avenue New York NY 10021
(212) 288-6400

Bronx Museum of the Arts
Free Fridays
1040 Grand Concourse @ 165th Street Bronx NY 10456
(718) 681-6000

Brooklyn Museum
Free on first Saturdays of the month, 5pm – 11pm
200 Eastern Parkway Brooklyn New York 11238
(718) 638-5000

Center for Book Arts Gallery
Always free
28 West 27th Street,third floor New York, NY 10001

Center for Jewish History
Free tours Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm
15 W16th Street New York NY
(212) 294-8301

China Institute
Free on Tuesdays & Thursdays 6pm – 8pm / Buy 1 admission get one free
125 E 65th Street New York NY 10021
(212) 744-8181

Cooper Union
Free exhibits throughout the year
The Great Hall
7 East 7th Street New York NY 10003
(212) 353-4196

DUMBO galleries and artists’ studios
Free first Thursdays 5:30pm – 8:30pm

El Museo del Barrio
Free for Seniors on Thursdays
1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th Street New York NY 10029
(212) 831-7272

Federal Hall National Memorial
Always free
26 Wall Street New York NY 10005
(212) 825-6888

Federal Reserve Bank
Tours are free, Monday to Friday 9:30am, 10:30am, 11:30am, 1:30pm, and 2:30pm
33 Liberty Street, btwn Nassau & William Streets New York NY 10045
(212) 720-6130

The Forbes Galleries
Free Tuesdays to Saturdays (not Thursdays) 10am – 4pm
62 Fifth Avenue, at the corner at 12th Street New York NY10011
(212) 206-5548

Harbor Defense Museum of Fort Hamilton
Always free
230 Sheridan Loop, Fort Hamilton Military Community Brookyln, NY 11252
(718) 630-4349/4306

Hispanic Society of America Museum and Library
Free admission and tours on Saturdays at 2pm
Audubon Terrace
Broadway between 155 and 156 Streets
(212) 926-2234

Haunch of Venison
230 Avenue of the Americas, 20th Floor (btwn 48th and 49th St) New York, NY 10020
(212) 259-0000

The Jazz Museum in Harlem
Free every Weekday 10am – 4:00pm
104 E. 126th Street • Suite 2D • New York, NY 10035
(212)  348-8300

The Jewish Museum
Free on Saturdays 11am – 5:45pm
1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street New York, New York 10128
(212) 423-3200

The Morgan Library & Museum
Free on Fridays 7pm – 9pm
225 Madison Avenue New York NY 10016
(212) 685-0008

Museum of Chinese in America
Free on Fridays
70 Mulberry Street at Bayard Street
(212) 619-4785

Museum of the City of New York
Free on Sundays 10am-noon
1220 Fifth Avenue New York NY 10029
(212) 534-1672

Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology
Always free
Seventh Avenue at 27 Street New York NY 10001
The permanent collection at FIT’s museum include 50,000 garments and accessories (including more than 4,000 pairs of shoes alone), dating from the 18th century and also 30,000 textiles dating back as far as the fifth century.

Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
Free Wednesdays 4pm – 8pm
36 Battery Place at 1st Place
(646) 437-4200

Museum of Modern Art
Free on summer Friday nights 4pm – 8pm
11 West 53 Street, btwn Fifth and Sixth Avenues New York NY 10019
(212) 708-9400

Museum of the Moving Image
Free on Fridays 4pm – 8pm
35 Avenue at 36 Street Astoria NY 11106
(718) 784-4520

National Museum of the American Indian
Always free
One Bowling Green New York NY 10004
(212) 514-3700

The National Museum of Catholic Art and History
Always free
443 E115th Street New York NY 10029
(212) 828-5209

New York Historical Society
Fridays 6 – 7pm
170 Central Park West New York NY 10024
(212) 873-3400

New York Transit Museum
Free for Seniors on Wednesdays
NY Transit Museum- 130 Livingston Street, 10th Floor, Brooklyn NY 11201
(718) 694-1600

Nicolas Roerich Museum
Always free
319 W107th Street New York NY 10025
(212) 864-7752

Rose Museum at Carnegie Hall
Always free
154 West 57th Street, 2nd floor New York NY 10019

Rubin Museum of Art
Free on Fridays 7pm – 10pm
150 West 17th Street New York NY 10011
(212) 620-5000

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Always free
515 Malcolm X Boulevard New York NY 10037-1801
(212) 491-2200

The Society of Illustrators
Always free
128 E63rd Street New York NY 10021-7303
(212) 838-2560

Tibet House US
Always free
22 W15th Street New York NY 10011
(212) 807-0563

Van Cortlandt House Museum
Free on Wednesdays
Broadway at West 246th Street Bronx NY 10471
(718) 543-3344

Yeshiva University Museum
Free Mondays 3:30 – 7:30pm
15 West 16th Street New York NY 10011
(212) 294-8330

Waterfront Museum
Free Thursday 4-8pm and Saturdays 1-5pm
290 Conover St. at Pier 44 Brooklyn NY 11231
(718) 624-4719

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It’s time again for the Affordable Art Fair,  over 70+ international galleries will be exhibiting at the Affordable Art Fair this year.  The Affordable Art Fair will be held Thursday May 6 – Sunday May 9 at 7W New York 7 W 34th Street. (7 West 34th St near 5th Ave, NYC)

Before going, check out the AAF’s list of Top Ten Tips for experiencing and buying art at art fairs

Tickets:
General Admission: $20
Student/Senior: $15
Group: $10
Children 12 and under – Free during Public Fair Hours
May 9 is Mother’s day – Children 12 and under get their Mothers in FREE! Fair Hours:

Learn more: The Affordable Art Fair

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Living in New York City (or practically anywhere)  means dealing with air pollution as a daily reality.  Here are some truly home grown solutions to  limit your personal exposure to airborne toxins.  These common indoor plants are easy to grow and maintain.  Just by having one of these plants in your apartment you will make a great effort to purify and clean your indoor air.  Turn your brown thumb into a green thumb with three simple tips:

1. Don’t Overwater.
2. You might need more light or a different plant.
3. Get a spray bottle and mist often.

Philodendron (Philodendron sp.)

Light: tolerates low light, but prefers medium intensity. Direct sun will burn the leaves.

Water: evenly moist soil, but let it dry between waterings.
Care: Mist regularly and brush the leaves to keep them free of dust.

Rubber Plant (Ficus robusta)

Light: partial light is best, but avoid direct sunlight.

Water: Water thoroughly then allow the soil to become nearly dry before watering again.
Care: Grows very well indoors.  Best to prune old growth.

Dracaena “Janet Craig” (Dracaena deremensis)

Light:  Grows best in bright indirect sunlight.  Try to place in front of an east/west facing window.

Water: Keep soil evenly moist.

Care: Remove any dead leaves and mist often.

Butterfly Palm (Chrysalidocarpus lutescens)

Light: Indirect light to bright light is best.

Water: Keep the soil moist, but not soggy.

Care: Mist often, and you may have to prune old growth.

Lady Palm (Rhapis excelsa)

Light: Indirect light.

Water: Let soil partially dry before watering

Care: Durable plant will grow well in most locations.

Bamboo palm (Chamaedorea seifrizii)

Light: Needs bright indirect light.

Water: Keep soil evenly moist, but not soggy.

Care: Mist often.

Ficus Alii (Ficus macleilandii “Alii”)

Light: Low to medium light.

Water: Keep soil moist but allow to dry between watering.

Care: Does not like drafts, so don’t place near heating or a/c vents.

Boston Fern (Nephrolepis exaltata “Bostoniensis”)

Light: Bright indirect sunlight.

Water:  Keep soil barely moist.

Care:  Mist frequently with warm water.

Peace Lily (Spathiphyllum “Mauna Loa”)

Light: Indirect sunlight.

Water: Water fully, then allow to nearly dry out between waterings.

Care:  Mist frequently.

Dwarf Date Palm (Phoenix roebelenii)

Light: Plant in a bright spot.

Water: Water regularly, but do not keep soil too moist.

Care: Hardy and tolerates drought.  Plant in a spot with no draft.

After being closed for three weeks, the Harlem School of the Arts reopened Saturday April 24th, 2010.

Mayor Bloomberg said, “With the help of dedicated New Yorkers, private funders and arts education advocates working together with the City and local officials, the Harlem School of the Arts is now on a path to a new and sustainable future, and that’s great news for everyone.”

Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer added, “The Harlem School of the Arts is an important cultural institution, and I am very pleased that the Bloomberg Administration, the City Council, the Department of Cultural Affairs, and local advocates have been able to work together to save the invaluable contributions that the School will now be able to continue to provide,”

“For 45 years, the Harlem School of the Arts has been an integral part of Harlem’s and the City’s cultural community, providing invaluable arts education to thousands of students,” said Mayor Bloomberg.

Thanks to the great reporting by Juan Gonzalez!

Martha Graham is a trailblazer and true pioneer of modern dance. Martha Graham choreographed and danced for over seventy years.  Martha Graham created a new language of dance movement which revealed real the full spectrum of human emotions etc.  In New York City during 1926, she founded The Martha Graham Dance Company the first modern dance company in the world.  The Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance is the oldest modern dancing school in America.  Martha Graham’s dramatic and personally expressive approach to choreography rocked and ushered in the modern dance world. Over the years Martha Graham has won many awards and accolades including the key of the city to Paris, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom which was presented to her by President Gerald Ford, and declared her a national treasure.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr8OqS7glxk

Martha Graham Famous Quotes:

I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It’s permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable.

All things I do are in every woman. Every woman is Medea. Every woman is Jocasta. There comes a time when a woman is a mother to her husband. Clytemnestra is every woman when she kills.

You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

Learn by practice.

The body is a sacred garment.

There is a vitality, a life-force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost.

The body says what words cannot.

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that the others are behind the time.

Nothing is more revealing than movement.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul.

Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery.

Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer’s body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.

I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination. There is a great deal of outer space, distant from our daily lives, where I feel our imagination wanders sometimes. It will find a planet or it will not find a planet, and that is what a dancer does.

We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.

Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It’s a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.

Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to paradise of the achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration, there are daily small deaths.

We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which you are dealing, for you to know it completely.

Misery is a communicable disease.

In 1980. a well-meaning fundraiser came to see me and said, “Miss Graham, the most powerful thing you have going for you to raise money is your respectability.” I wanted to spit. Respectable! Show me any artist who wants to be respectable.

I’m asked so often at ninety-six whether I believe in life after death. I do believe in the sanctity of life, the continuity of life and of energy. I know the anonimity of death has no appeal for me. It is the now that I must face and want to face.

The only sin is mediocrity.

The body never lies.

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

Martha Graham
Born May 11, 1894
Died April 1, 1991 (aged 96)

Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn –

“Governor Paterson’s proposal to increase the MTA payroll tax on New York City employers by nearly 60% is outrageous and simply unfair.

“The additional tax increase on City employers – including businesses, the non-profit sector, and the City government – would suffocate growth and job creation in the City just as we are on the cusp of recovery from worst economic downturn in generations. City employers should not have to pay for forecasting errors by State Dept of Taxation and Finance.

“The transit system benefits not just employers in the City, but also those in the suburban MTA counties where many users of MTA commuter railroads and busses live and work.  Those communities will suffer as well if job creation is choked off by an inequitable tax burden on City employers.

“Enough is enough. We urge in the strongest possible terms that the Governor and Legislature reconsider this proposal.”

Transportation Committee Chair James Vacca –

“Only weeks ago the Governor stated that he would not raise taxes, and here he is putting forth a multimillion-dollar tax increase that not only unfairly targets New York City, but also hits local businesses at a time when thousands of people are desperate for a job. Meanwhile, we continue to see reports of cost overruns, uncollected fees, and general mismanagement at the MTA. Raising taxes so we can throw more money at this agency is obviously not the answer.”

Finance Committee Chair Domenic M. Recchia, Jr. –

“Tax increases and vital service cuts on a City crawling into economic stability is offensive. Now, the governor has proposed to raise the mobility tax for New York City, but to spare all New Yorkers above the Bronx and east of Queens. We in the City of New York will not stand for clear unequal treatment.

“The City Council saw this MTA budget crisis coming and we proposed a plan that would help alleviate their deficit, a plan that would save student metro cards, save our senior transportation and not raise our mobility tax. Our tolls, metro fares and taxes are already some of the highest in the state.

“I am going to work with our City’s Assembly and Senate representatives in Albany to ensure we are treated fairly and we will not be taken advantage.”

State and Federal Legislation Chair Helen Diane Foster –

“The proposed mobility tax increase will strangle our City’s economic recovery and hurt growth in our neighborhoods. We will not allow for a state budget that disproportionately harms our City. Cutting our city’s vital services, while still raising taxes puts an unfair burden on New Yorkers.

“I will work side by side with our representatives in Albany to ensure we are given a fair and balanced budget in the state.”

“First the Governor proposed a state budget that slashes support for New York City but not the suburbs, and now he proposes to wallop city businesses with more taxes while lightening the load for businesses in the suburbs. The idea that the State can spare the suburbs while sacking the City is terrible economics, grossly unfair, and contrary to every principle of good regional development. We in New York City saw the MTA’s problems coming and came up with a plan that would have created a steady stream of revenue for capital programs. Now the Governor proposes to shift an extra half billion dollar burden onto New York City taxpayers, who are the economic heart of our region. I will work night and day with our City’s delegation in Albany to stop this wrongheaded proposal from moving forward.“

Arthur Fellig, was a photographer and photo journalist with the nickname Weegee, a reference to the “Ouija” board because of his seemingly psychic ability to show up at a crime scene moments after the police arrived.  Weegee started photography in the 20′s and by 1938 was the only freelance photo newsman armed with a short wave police radio, and a complete dark room in the trunk of his car.  Weegee zoomed all over town chasing the new york story with his camera.  Arthur Fellig was known for capturing candid moments of the gritty life of New Yorker City crime scenes.

Weegee (Arthur Fellig) Quote:
“When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you photograph, when you laugh and cry with their laughter and tears, you will know you are on the right track.”

View the MoMa Online Collection of Weegee (Arthur Fellig)‘s work.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1JNMRy_cNM

The Lincoln in New York exhibition at the New York Historical Society ends March 25, 2010.

Check out the Lincoln in New York site.

New York Historical Society
2 W. 77th St. at Central Park West – Upper West Side, Manhattan
(212) 873-3400
Admission: $8.00
FREE: Fridays 6 – 7pm
Hours: Tuesday-Sunday 11-5
Bus: M7 M10 M11
Subway: 1 to 79th St. | B C to 81st St.

New-York Historical Society
170 Central Park West at W. 77th St. – Upper West Side, Manhattan
(212) 873-3400
Admission: $8.00
FREE: Fridays 6 – 7pm
Hours: Tuesday-Sunday 11-5
Bus: M7 M10 M11
Subway: 1 to 79th St. | B C to 81st St.

The New York Historical Society was formed in 1804, by New Yorker’s including Mayor De Witt Clinton.  The New York Historical Society is the oldest museum in operation in the city and the second oldest-historical society in the United States.  Their mission is to preserve materials focusing on New York State history.  In addition to exhibitions the New York Historical Society has a research library which contains a major collection of 18th century newspapers.

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Here is a very short video of New Yorker’s celebrating Halloween in Greenwich Village.

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Here is The DailyNewYorker’s listing of NYC independent Bookstores, Add your favorite New York City independent bookstore to this list by Contacting us.

192 Books
192 Tenth Avenue (at 21st Street)
212-255-4022

Alabaster Bookshop
122 4th Avenue (btw 12th and 13th)
212-982-3550

Archivia Books
993 Lexington Avenue (btw 71st and 72nd),
212-570-9565

Argosy Book Store
116 East 59th Street
212-753-4455

Atlantic Bookshop
179 Atlantic Avenue btwn Court and Clinton
Brooklyn
718-797-5756

Babbos Books
242 Prospect Park West
718-788-3475

Bank Street Books
610 West 112th Street
212-678-1654

Bauman Rare Books
535 Madison Avenue
1-800-99-BAUMAN

Bergen Street Comics
470 Bergen Street, Brooklyn
718-230-5600

Biography Bookshop
400 Bleecker Street (at 11th Street)
212-807-8655

Bluestockings
172 Allen Street (between Stanton and Rivington)
212-777-6028

Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks
163 West 10th Street
212-989-8962

Book Culture
536 West 112th Street
212-865-1588

Book Culture on Broadway
2915 Broadway (at 114th St.)

Bookberries
983 Lexington Avenue (at 71st)
212-794-9400

Books in the Hood
815 Westchester Ave.
Bronx, N. Y.
(347) 270-1215

Books of Wonder
18 West 18th Street
212-989-3270

Boulevards Books & Cafe
7518 13th Avenue
Brooklyn
917-873-9770

Brownstone Books
409 Lewis Avenue
718-953-7328,

Chartwell Booksellers
55 East 52nd Street (In the arcade of the Park Avenue Plaza Building (between Park & Madison Avenues) 212-308-0643 info@chartwellbooksellers.com

Choices Book & Gift
220 E. 78th St. (between 2nd and 3rd) New York 212-794-3858

Civil Service Book Shop
Civil Service Bookshop 89 Worth Street, N.Y.,N.Y. 10013 TEL.212-226-9506

Clove Lake Book Store
1174 Victory Boulevard SI, NY (718) 442-5355

Community Bookstore of Park Slope
143 Seventh Avenue (btw Caroll and Garfield), Brooklyn 718-783-3075

Complete Traveller Antiquarian Bookstore
199 Madison Avenue, 212-685-9007, info@ctrarebooks.com

Crawford Doyle Booksellers
1082 Madison Avenue (near 81st), 212-288-6300

Dahesh Heritage – Fine Books
1775 Broadway, Suite 533, NY, NY 1-800-799-6375

Dashwood Books
33 Bond Street
212-387-8520

Desert Island
540 Metropolitan Avenue
718-388-5087

Drama Book Shop
250 W. 40th Street
212-944-0595

East Village Books and Records
99 St. Marks Pl.
New York, NY 10009
212-477-8647

East West Books
78 Fifth Avenue
212-243-5994

Fashion Design Books
250 West 27th Street, 212-633-9646, fashionbk@aol.com

Forbidden Planet
840 Broadway, 212-473-1576

Freebird Books
123 Columbia Street, 718-643-8484, info@freebirdbooks.com

Globe Trippin
1689 Amsterdam Avenue (btw 143rd and 144th), 917-860-5629, news@globetrippin.com

Gotham City Comics
800 Lexington Avenue (btw 61st and 62nd), 212-980-0009

Greenlight Bookstore
686 Fulton St. (at S. Portland), Ft. Greene, Brooklyn, 718-246-0200

Heights Books
120 Smith Street, Brooklyn, 718-624-4876

Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
126 Crosby Street, 212-334-3324

Hue-Man Bookstore & Cafe
2319 Frederick Douglass Blvd (btw 124th and 125th), 212-665-7400

Idlewild Books
12 W. 19th Street (near 5th Ave.), 212-414-8888

Imperial Fine Books
790 Madison Avenue, 2nd Floor
212-861-6620

J.N. Bartfield Fine Books
30 West 57th Street
212-245-8890

Jewish Book Center of The Workmen’s Circle
45 East 33rd Street (btw Park and Madison)
212-889-6800 (x285)

Jim Hanley’s Universe
4 West 33rd Street
212-268-7088

Joanne Hendricks, Cookbooks
488 Greenwich Street
212-226-5731

John McWhinnie at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller
50 1/2 East 64th Street
212-754-5626

Kings Books
1613 Oriental Blvd.
718-743-8582

Kinokuniya Books
1073 Avenue of the Americas
212-869-1700

Kitchen Arts & Letters
1435 Lexington Avenue
212-876-5550

Left Bank Books
304 West 4th Street
212-924-5638

Librairie de France
610 Fifth Avenue (btw 49th and 50th)
212-581-8810

Librería Caliope Bookstore
170 Dyckman Street (btw Broadway and Sherman)
212-567-3511

Logos Bookstore
1575 York Avenue
212-517-7292

Manhattan Books
150 Chambers Street
212-385-7395

McNally Jackson Books
52 Prince Street (btw Layfayette and Mulberry)
212-274-1160

Melville House
145 Plymouth Street (carries books only published by independent publishers), 718.722.9204, info@mhpbooks.com

Mercer Street Books
206 Mercer Street
212-505-8615

Midtown Comics Grand Central
459 Lexington Avenue (at 45th Street)

Midtown Comics Times Square
200 West 40th Street (at 7th Avenue)

Morningside Bookshop
2915 Broadway (at 114th Street)
212-222-3350

Mysterious Bookshop
58 Warren Street
212-587-1011

Open Center Bookstore
83 Spring Street
212-219-2527

P.S. Bookshop
145A Front Street
718-222-3340

Partners & Crime Mystery Booksellers
44 Greenwich Avenue (at Charles Street)
212-243-0440

Penn Books
Penn Station LIRR Level
212-239-0311

Posman Books
Grand Central Terminal
212-983-1111

Potterton Books
979 3rd Avenue (btw 58th and 59th)
212-644-2292

powerHouse Arena
37 Main Street
718-666-3049

Pranga Bookstore
354 Court Street

Revolution Books
146 West 26th Street
212-691-3345

Rizzoli Bookstore
31 West 57th Street
212-759-2424

Rocketship
208 Smith Street
718-797-1348

Scholastic Store
557 Broadway
212-343-6166

Seaburn Bookstore
33-18 Broadway
Long Island City, NY
718 267-7929

Locations throughout NYC

Shakespeare & Co. Booksellers – Brooklyn
14 Hillel Place
718-434-5326

Shakespeare & Co. Booksellers – Gramercy
137 East 23rd Street (at Lexington Avenue)
212-505-2021

Shakespeare & Co. Booksellers – Greenwich Village
716 Broadway (at Washington Place)
212-529-1330

Shakespeare & Co. Booksellers – Upper East Side
939 Lexington Avenue (btw 68th and 69th)
212-570-0201

Sister’s Uptown Bookstore
1942 Amsterdam Avenue (at 156th Street)
212-862-3680

Skyline Books

13 West 18th Street
212-759-5463

Spoonbill & Sugartown, Booksellers
218 Bedford Avenue
718-387-7322

St. Mark’s Bookshop
31 Third Avenue
212-260-7853

Strand Book Store
828 Broadway (at 12th Street)
212-473-1452

Taschen Store
107 Greene Street (btw Prince and Spring), 212-226-2212

The BookMark Shoppe
8415 3rd Avenue
718-833-5115

The Corner Bookstore
1313 Madison Avenue (near 93rd)
212-831-3554

The Quest Bookshop
240 East 53rd Street
212-758-5521

Three Lives & Company
154 West 10th Street
212-741-2069

Traveler’s Choice Bookstore
2 Wooster Street
212-941-1535

United Nations Bookshop
1st Avenue and 46th Street, Visitors Lobby
212-963-7680

Unnameable Books
456 Bergen Street (btw 5th and Flatbush)
718-789-1534

Unoppressive Non-Imperialist Bargain Books
34 Carmine Street NY
212-229-0079

Urban Center Books
457 Madison Avenue
212-935-3595

Ursus Books Ltd.

981 Madison Avenue
212-772-8787

Westsider Books in the UWS is open late.

Westsider Rare and Used Books
2246 Broadway (btw 80th and 81st)

WORD
126 Franklin Street

718-383-0096

It’s that time when the sun shines brightly and penetrates every dark corner of New York City and the breeze flows lazily like the breezes that I remember in Hawaii.

Women wearing long dresses, short dresses, short shorts, cargo pants, jeans and whatever else with their trusty scarves and zip-ups. These are the kisses of fall as the months creep closer to autumn. I love these times in the city, I feel like I am in a black and white film all the noises fade out and I am walking in slow motion. Men and women alike changing wardrobes with the season, stylish and sophisticated, sexy and not too revealing. Just right.

I walked by the Lincoln Center the other day and was simply captivated by the people rushing to their shows and the others walking to restaurants weaving through the throng of people simply loitering. My mind takes snaps to store away in my mind as I am again taken to certain movies where New York is pictured in the 40s women holding firmly onto their feathered hats while gripping the arms of their partners.

Everyday in New York is truly amazing, even at the library, I was observing the people coming in to browse and spend their time, and I noticed the mixture of individuals. A homeless man walking into the library glancing at the novels and then picking out a book sits at a corner table to read. No rush, no pressure.

I am bombarded by a group of young kids trying to squeeze their way ahead of me up the stairs to God knows what but still the feeling is the same. We are all happy to be among this treasure trove of written words. No matter what the purpose for being there everyone enjoyed a book or two before heading back out into the streets. A sense of fulfillment indeed.

New York, oh what a magnificent city, a live movie playing with all of us as actors and actresses thrown into one script. Playing out our roles in the most subtle ways on an endless film reel.