nickcarr
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NYC Subway Now Takes You Around The World
On my way out of the city for Christmas, I had to take the Shuttle train to Times Square, and happened to get on one that had been taken over by American Airlines. The exterior was pretty neat, made to look like an American Airlines plane… But what really blew me away was the interior,…
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Mistletoe Warning
Wishing everyone a merry Christmas weekend, and watch out for that mistletoe – you never know where it’ll pop up! (Seen a couple years ago over the Bedford Ave L train stairwell…) -SCOUT
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Houdini’s Final Vanishing Act in Queens
Cypress Hills Street might as well be called the Graveyard Highway. A wide, four-lane thruway located in Glendale, Queens, it cuts through The Cemetery Belt – a sprawling collection of cemeteries established after the State Rural Cemeteries Act of 1847 forbade the creation of any new cemeteries in Manhattan. I was out there recently to…
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Remembering A Plane Crash In Brooklyn
Driving into work this morning, I heard on the news that today marks the 50th anniversary of one of the worst airline disasters in history: the mid-air collision of two planes over Staten Island. Of the 128 passengers and crew members aboard the two flights, all were killed save for a 10 year old boy…