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Times Square Recycle Billboard Made From Recyclables
Note: This is long gone. I was scouting near Times Square on Friday when I noticed this neat new billboard on 7th Ave… Apparently, it’s promoting Best Buy’s electronics recycle program, and if you look closely… …you’ll see that the letters are actually made from recycled electronics! I wish they had made it a little…
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Where Should This Reader Propose To His Girlfriend?
Quick note: A reader wrote me asking for a good place to propose to his girlfriend. Rather than limit it to my locations knowledge, I asked my readers, and was inundated with lots of great ideas. If you’re looking for a good place to propose in NYC, just check through the comments. A Scouting NY…
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Abandoned on East 43rd Street
Each time I walk down East 43rd Street, I expect it to have been torn down: A beautiful Italianate marble building, 4 East 43rd Street has to be one of the few abandoned properties in Midtown. Nestled in amongst the skyscrapers adjacent to Grand Central, it has been decaying since I began my location scouting…
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Chelsea Birds Are Watching You
Wanted to share some really neat details I noticed while scouting in Chelsea the other day. This building, at the corner of 23rd & Ninth, is known as London Terrace Gardens and actually stretches all the way to 10th Ave. When it was built in 1931, it was considered the largest apartment building in the…