#New York Guide

[griefpersevering]

there needs to be more fics about vigilantes being besties and going on missions together. give me the defenders having a weekly dinner! give me team red! give me the punisher and jessica jones wondering how they became besties with a load of spandex-wearing weirdos!

[the-sartorial-journey]

Blue Power

[newyorkthegoldenage]

The manual for the sophisticated Manhattan gent: where to take anyone to dinner. It may not look like anything special today, but in 1934, the U.S. (and even New York) was a strictly meat and potatoes kind of place, where fine dining meant turkey. Swedish food! Chinese! Japanese! Armenian! Only in New York.

Photos: The Cary Collection & Common Crow

[sunmoontruth-stiles]

I need a completely rewritten teen wolf series with Derek Hale as the main character. I think it would heal me.

[d-criss-news]

newyorktheatreguide: Why should you see “Maybe Happy Ending” on Broadway? Let Darren Criss tell you all about it! The Emmy winner stars in this robotic musical rom-com starting October 16, and tickets are now on sale on New York Theatre Guide!

Learn more and your tickets at the link in bio and stories.

#darrencriss #maybehappyending #broadway #broadwayshow #broadwayshows #broadwaytheatre #newyork #newyorktheatre #nyc #newyorkcity #broadwaytickets #theatre #musicaltheatre #musical #musicals #broadwaymusical #broadwaymusicals #romcom #romanticcomedy #musicalcomedy

[hippography]

Officier de guides

From: THE VINKHUIJZEN COLLECTION OF MILITARY UNIFORMS, located in the THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY DIGITAL COLLECTIONS

[illustriousaestheticc]

[leannareneehieber]

(Pictured: Carnations laid in honor of the dead at the sidewalk of NYU's Brown Building. Photo by Leanna Renee Hieber)

On March 25, 1911, a fire broke out on the top floors of the Asch Building. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire took the lives of 146 people, most of them women and girls. As a NYC tour guide of over 15yrs, I speak about this site with vehemence. Never forget the importance of modern labor laws and the lives lost before we gained these rights. Andrea Janes and I wrote about this site, and its importance in the capacity of residual haunting, in our book A HAUNTED HISTORY OF INVISIBLE WOMEN. Our chapter on the fire, Industrial Monsters, is up on the Boroughs of the Dead blog: https://boroughsofthedead.com/industrial-monsters-ghosts-of-the-triangle-shirtwaist-factory/

Please support union workers and legislation aimed at shoring up worker protections. Honor the dead.

[oysters-aint-for-me]

can’t believe i’ve never made it to this part in the hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy series until now:

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[pelomundodascidades]

Urban Omnibus / Stipan Tadic (ilustrations) +Manuel Miranda ( layout design), New York City Map, New York City, USA, 2024 https://urbanomnibus.net/2024/08/how-to-map-new-york-city/

[mostlysignssomeportents]

The Tamakis' "Roaming"

Tomorrow (September 12) at 7pm, I'll be at Toronto's Another Story Bookshop with my new book The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation. On September 14, I'm hosting the EFF Awards in San Francisco.

Cousins Mariko Tamaki and #JillianTamaki are a graphic storytelling powerhouse, and their latest title, Roaming (from Drawn and Quarterly) is a stunner:

https://drawnandquarterly.com/books/roaming/

Roaming is the story of three young Canadian women meeting up for a getaway to New York City. Zoe and Dani are high-school best friends who haven't seen each other since they graduated and decamped for universities in different cities. Fiona is Dani's art-school classmate, a glamorous and cantankerous artist with an affected air of sophistication.

The three young women check into a youth hostel for a hotly anticipated long weekend, which turns into a complicated and moody marathon of debauchery, bonding, feuding, flirting, resentments and wonders.

The Tamakis' specialty is capturing the charged sexuality, subtle friendship power-moves, and intense but brittle friendship between young women. They're very good at it, which is why they won a Governor General's prize for their 2014 blockbuster This One Summer:

https://memex.craphound.com/2014/05/06/review-this-one-summer/

With Roaming we get a dizzying, beautifully wrought three-body problem as the three protagonists struggle with resentments and love, sex and insecurity. The relationships between Zoe, Dani and Fiona careen wildly from scene to scene and even panel to panel, propelled by sly graphic cues and fantastically understated dialog.

Meanwhile, NYC looms large as it only could in a story about young Canadians in the City. It's hard to overstate the glamour with which New York looms in the imagination of (many) young Canadians. Hence the old joke: "How many Canadians does it take to change a lightbulb? Two: one to change the bulb and one to go to New York and make sure lightbulbs are still cool." Or: "Toronto is New York run by the Swiss; the city that never sleeps…in."

I was one of those Canadian adolescents drunk on New York, on several occasions, and even today the City can just floor me. The Tamakis nailed this, from the facial expressions to the body-language of their characters, the push-pull of wanting to go to all the tourist traps and not wanting to be the kind of rube who goes to all the tourist traps.

All my female friends have stories of growing up in intense, three-way friendships that were forever turning into two-on-one fights, with allegiances shifting from moment to moment. Roaming tells the story of one such triangle, forming and shattering and re-forming in a sorefooted, exhilarating weekend in the greatest city in the world (TM). It's a love story about friendship and the transition from adolescence to adulthood, perfectly precise in its depiction of very specific people in a very specific time and place, and yet absolutely universal in the truths it reveals.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/11/as-canadian-as/#possible-under-the-circumstances

[goodtime-not-alongtime]

me after learning about John’s Bermuda storm incident

[the-sartorial-journey]

Alfa Romeo

[newyorkthegoldenage]

The January 29, 1928 issue of the Metropolitan Guide, the official organ of the Hotel Association. It compiled all the events to tempt a visitor for that week.

Photo: Museum of the City of New York (MCNY)

[chamomiletealeaf]

If y’all ever wanted to visit NYC here are reasons not to and why it’s a waste of time and money

Disclaimer: If y’all want to come here then do so with caution. I’m not gonna stop you. But consider these things before actually traveling to this godforsaken place 😭😭

1. People are RUDE AND IF YOU DON’T KNOW HOW TO NAVIGATE THE CITY NO ONE WILL HELP YOU (Download the subway app and try to get around on your own. People are dangerous and rude and don’t care about you. Try doing as much as you can on your own.)

2. Speaking of the Subways, they’re extremely dangerous, dirty, and they never run on time. It’s almost three dollars to travel on the Subway and it doesn’t even work. I’m late to class all the time because the trains are always down and delayed for hours at a time.

3. DO NOT GO TO TIMES SQUARE. If you really want to visit then by all means, but it’s crowded and filled with people trying to scam tourists. It’s extremely overwhelming and you WILL get yelled at.

4. Violence is at a high right now. Men are punching women for simply existing and shootings on the subways are a problem since shooters take advantage of the delays knowing people will all be crowded in one spot for a while.

5. Do not go anywhere alone. Don’t look at anyone. Don’t speak to people who speak to you because most of the time they’re scammers. True New Yorkers mind their business and don’t engage in unnecessary conversation so the people trying to talk to you are gonna try and scam you.

6. No walkable places. Everything is incredibly expensive and requires taxis or subways to get literally anywhere.

7. New York Pizza is mid as fuck. It’s super thin and the crust is hard as a fucking rock. Dominos is superior.

8. If you’re gonna eat anywhere food trucks are the way to go. They’re pretty reasonably priced for the most part and you get good portions. Restaurants are overpriced and don’t give you as much. Delis are good too.

9. If you like bagels NY bagels are good as hell. Honestly the food here is the only thing worth traveling here for. The bagels are big and there’s like a gazillion options for what you want on it as well as what type of bagel.

10. Overall New York sucks. Everything is dirty, broken, and expensive but the food is good other than the pizza. The pizza sucks ass.

[tooedgyforbrunch]

Baby, it’s cold outside 🤎🩶