Marriage Is the Dark Horse Alternative

TEDDY: I woke up last Sunday in a dorm room in Harvard’s Dunster House, logged into facebook.com and noticed a recently published photo album entitled, “Austen and Tito’s Wedding!!! Location: East Hampton.” It wasn’t the first album of this nature I’d encountered. I contemplated waking up my lady friend, who is Harvard class of Read More

Shouted Down by Snapshots— The 9/11 Photographic Record

The photographs of 9/11 hold an unparalleled, monumental power over us. So one picks up a 400-page book that promises to tell “The Stories Behind the Images” with high expectations, and with some nervousness, too: If it doesn’t live up to its billing, it will feel like just another meretricious contribution to the expanding shelf Read More

Shouted Down by Snapshots- The 9/11 Photographic Record

The photographs of 9/11 hold an unparalleled, monumental power over us. So one picks up a 400-page book that promises to tell “The Stories Behind the Images” with high expectations, and with some nervousness, too: If it doesn’t live up to its billing, it will feel like just another meretricious contribution to the expanding shelf Read More

Time Takes a Cigarette


The New York Shipyard today.


The New York Shipyard a month ago.

Here’s a little before and after of the Ikea site in Red Hook. (be in awe of our Photoshop skillz!) Demolition seems to be going quickly. We’ll try and see what’s happened to the graving dock this weekend.

-Matthew Grace

Landmarks Relocation




The Landmarks Preservation Commission just announced the landmark designation of the Seaman Cottage (top picture) on Staten Island, a two-and-a-half-story Greek Revival house built in 1836-37 in Richmondtown, the “historic governmental center of Staten Island.”

The house was moved earlier this year from 218 Center Street to 441 Clarke Read More

Scientolo-T

For those who can’t get enough of the Scientology scandal, some crafty Photoshop artist is now offering