#nyc beat

[raunchily]

NYC Beat, 2005

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Four friends share a bed in a Greenwich Village apartment after a long night out, ca. 1956.

Photo: Weegee via Int'l Center of Photography/bygonely

[tygerland]

Queen Latifah - New York City, October 6, 1989 - with backup dancers Allison Ashmawy (left) and Kika Martin, aka the "Safari Sisters." Photos by Al Pereira.

[bambi-eyes444]

mine <3

[scopophilic1997]

scopOphilic_micromessaging_1043 - scopOphilic1997 presents a new micro-messaging series: small, subtle, and often unintentional messages we send and receive verbally and non-verbally.

[warhead]

[realnyhiphop101]

Sweet T & Jazzy Joyce “It’s My Beat” Era

[ardri-na-bpiteog]

Maybe I'm being boring and No Fun and it's Not That Deep but it's my blog and I can say what I want 😠.

But my whole thing about people on the internet constantly talking about how Paris is so shitty and terrible that it causes psychiatric distress in tourists is that:

The primary reason for it is not that Paris is uniquely awful, it's because Paris is heavily romanticized in media leading some people to have extremely high expectations that are not met when it turns out to be a large city with the typical large city problems.

"Paris syndrome" affects an extremely small number of people and is largely noted in Japanese tourists, who come from a country that is uniquely safe, clean, and orderly. The vast majority of cities in the world are significantly dirtier, more chaotic, and more dangerous than many areas of Japan.

Paris is in the top 10 most visited cities and France as a whole receives the most international tourists of any country in the world. Obviously some experiences are going to be negative, but it's clearly not widespread enough to deter the millions of tourists who visit Paris every year 🤷.

I think if you go to Paris with the realistic expectation that it's a major city with one of the highest population densities in Europe and a metro area population of over 18 million people and will not be a perfect, idealised theme park, you can enjoy the city for what it is.

[trinketsandpersonality]

[yourboijod]

Nas, 1999

[findthosedetonators]

[twixnmix]

New Kids on the Block photographed by Bette Marshall for Teen Beat magazine, 1989.

[tygerland]

John Coltrane 1963, by Jim Marshall.

[oatzmeal]

[gotankgo]

1986

[jon-decor]

I saw the best minds of my generation

destroyed by madness, starving hysterical

naked,

—Howl, Allen Ginsberg