Emily's Features
The View from Roosevelt Island

It's not just a pig farm-turned-prison-turned-insane asylum-turned-real estate. This odd little island has been muckraked by Nellie Bly and unhappily visited by a captive Boss Tweed. It's technically part of Manhattan, but a weird little world of its own. With one main street and the absence of addresses, it has been compared to a crappy college campus and Soviet town. Emily Pecora lovingly reports.
   
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At Three Miles an Hour

A primal, masochistic band of urban hikers stalk the bridges of NYC at the crack of dawn on weekend mornings guided only by their beating hearts, gruff behaviors and rugged silence. These are the Shorewalkers, and they take no prisoners. Be it freezing, torrid or in any other capacity uncomfortable, they soldier on interminably. Jump on or fuck off.
   
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Urban Bohemia

It may not be the Second Wave, but you can still party like it's 1888 at the Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden. Hear what old hand Charlie Mankopf has to say about the changes, the Czech/Slovak Only policy in the Bohemian Benevolent Society and the proliferance of non-Astorians in Astoria.
   
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Emily's Radars Astoria Park and Pool
Astoria Park

5/25/2006 Landmarks, Astoria — Before there were public parks, people took their picnics in the graveyards of the city—spreading bl...

Sissy McGinty’s
Sissy McGinty’s

5/25/2006 Nightlife, Astoria — Irish drinking is a much maligned cultural tendency, but the Irish love of the sociable, companionab...

Salvation Army
Salvation Army

5/25/2006 Shopping, Astoria — The fact that thrift stores exist indicates more about the nature of purchase and ownership in Ameri...

Frick Collection
The Frick Collection

4/6/2006 Landmarks, Upper East Side (Lower) — Regular admission to the Frick Collection is a hefty fifteen dollars, but for two Sunday hours (11 a...

Jour et Nuit
Jour et Nuit

4/6/2006 Restaurants, Astoria — Every New Yorker has their favorite little local restaurant. If the tables are always empty, you eve...