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• New Year’s Day dinner on the Bowery

  
  Ephemeral New York — Authority: 518
  Fried rabbit on toast, canned Oyster Bay asparagus, hot mince and pumpkin pie—these and other delicacies were on the menu at M.F. Lyons’ Dining Rooms on the Bowery for New Year’s Day dinner in 1906. And yep, those prices are in cents. I wonder what kind of residents showed up for this meal. “Mike” Lyons’ ...
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• P.T. Barnum’s “Living Curiosities”

  
  Ephemeral New York — Authority: 518
  Think of them as the cast of a reality show—so real they were actually on display 365 days a year at P.T. Barnum’s American Museum. One of the most popular tourist attractions on the city, the museum was located on Ann Street and Broadway from 1841 to 1868. The “curiosities” were a revolving cast. In ...
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• The Day After Christmas

  
  About New York — Authority: 114
  Wet but not cold. The snow melting rapidly. My main blog is now here
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• Patti Smith: Dream of Life~ Punk Legend as Muse

  
  Through Your Body: — Authority: 120
  Patti Smith: Dream of Life~ Punk Legend as Muse A Legend as Muse: Patti Smith Fills Role By EDWARD WYATT LOS ANGELES — There was a time, a decade ago, Patti Smith said, that she did not want to make a film about herself. “To me the idea seems sort of conceited,” she said in an interview. “I felt, even ...
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• Experts devise bang-up cracker formula

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  British researchers say they have devised a guaranteed method of pulling crackers, to avoid disappointment at the dinner table this Christmas. The researchers say the method for always winning the long end of the cracker, and therefore the prize inside, is in the angle that you grip it. They have released a ...
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• How New York invented Santa Claus

  
  Ephemeral New York — Authority: 518
  It’s not really a stretch for New Yorkers to claim the jolly, red-suited dude as one of our own. “Sinte Klaas” was the nickname Dutch settlers gave St. Nicholas, a serious figure depicted in bishop’s robes celebrated every December 6. Legend had it that St. Nicholas gave gifts to the poor, and he also ...
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• Is this the oldest photograph of New York?

  
  Ephemeral New York — Authority: 518
  It just might be, according to New York: An Illustrated History , by Ric Burns and James Sanders. Taken at Broadway between Franklin and Leonard Streets, it’s believed to date to May 1850. Looks like workers have torn up the street. On the far left, at 360 Broadway, is a building advertising carriages, and a ...
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• Pair held over $4m card skimming scam

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Police in Sydney have arrested two men over an EFTPOS scam which has so far netted more than $4 million from bank accounts in Western Australia. Thousands of Western Australians have had their card details stolen at several McDonalds restaurants across Perth since October. Police allege the 31-year-old Canadian man ...
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• WinterMarket 2009

  
  ultraclay dot com — Authority: 130
  Yesterday morning I braved the piles of snow to go down to the Seaport to attend this years WinterMarket at the Fulton Fish Market. I havent written much about the New Amsterdam Market project recently, but its been moving on track as far as I can tell. Starting this summer, there have been monthly markets taking ...
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• Crew finds Centaur shipwreck

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A search team has discovered the wreck of Australian wartime hospital ship Centaur. The WWII ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1943 and sank off the south-east Queensland coast. Of the 332 people on board the AHS Centaur only 64 survived. This morning, seven days into an official search, the crew of the ...
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• Man Arrested in Pay-to-Park Scam

  
  City Room — Authority: 774
  Steven Pappas, was charged on Friday with third-degree burglary, a felony, and second-degree criminal impersonation, a misdemeanor.
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• The “Wolf of Wall Street”

  
  Ephemeral New York — Authority: 518
  David Lamar was kind of a low-grade Bernie Madoff. He earned his nickname partly by taking millions of dollars from private citizens, promising to invest their cash in stocks and securities, and then keeping the money for himself. Falsely claiming to be a scion of a wealthy Georgia family, Lamar lived large. He ...
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• Boat crew’s shock as shark gnashes oar

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A surf boat has been attacked by a white pointer shark while on a training run at Hawks Nest, north of Newcastle. The boat was about 400 metres off shore when the sweepers oar was ripped from his hands by the shark - thought to be a juvenile. Surf boat sweeper, Greg Ross says the crew got the shock of their lives. ...
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• Lower Manhattan criss-crossed by wires

  
  Ephemeral New York — Authority: 518
  As this 1880s postcard reveals, New York streets in the late 19th century held messes of wires—telephone and telegraph wires like these as well as power lines. The streets are much more attractive—not to mention safer—now that all the wires have to be buried underground. It’s a result of the Blizzard of ...
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• 9/11 mastermind’s Manhattan trial will make him ‘larger than Osama’, warns Cheney

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 739
  Washington, Dec. 9 (ANI): Former US Vice President Dick Cheney has warned that 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s trial in New York City will give make him an extremist hero like Osama bin Laden.Fox News quoted Cheney, as saying that holding the trial in a lower Manhattan courtroom near ground zero will make ...
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• Group of 9/11 families hold rally to protest Manhattan terror trial

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  NEW YORK — A group of 9/11 families and their supporters are rallying in front of Manhattans federal courthouse to protest the plan to put terrorism suspects on trial in New York. The protesters plan to gather in front of the lower Manhattan courthouse at noon. Original Article: Forum: News/Activism
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• Cheney Rips ‘Radical’ Obama, Warns 9/11 Trial Will Make Khalid Sheikh Mohammed a ‘Hero’

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 464
  Former vice president says holding trial in lower Manhattan near ground zero will make self-professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed "a hero in certain circles."
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• If we try to stop this attack, will you help us?

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 464
  If we try to stop this attack, will you help us? Carolyn Hileman How many of us said in the hours after the last plane hit, that we wished we had prior warning because we would have been there to help them fend off the attacks? How many of us are willing to do so now? You see New York is about to be attacked again ...
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• Driver who killed teens loses appeal

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...
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• Girl gangsters of 19th century Manhattan

  
  Ephemeral New York — Authority: 518
  When you think of the criminal gangs of New York in the 1800s, ruthless young men probably come to mind. But these gangs had female members as well, some of whom were notorious fighters. There was Hell-Cat Maggie, a member of the Irish-American Dead Rabbits in the 1850s. Her home base was the Five Points slum, near ...
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