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oh hey! Manhattanhenge just happened! via amnhnyc:

Four nights a year, the streets of Manhattan’s grid become the site for a spectacular sunset phenomenon known as “Manhattanhenge.” As Director of the Hayden Planetarium Neil deGrasse Tyson, who discovered the phenomenon and coined the term “Manhattanhenge,” explains in his Hayden Planetarium blog, Manhattanhenge takes place “when the setting Sun aligns precisely with the Manhattan street grid, creating a radiant glow of light across Manhattan’s brick and steel canyons, simultaneously illuminating both the north and south sides of every cross street of the borough’s grid. A rare and beautiful sight.” 

Photo courtesy of Katie Killary

Awesome. Incidental build up to a Space Odyssey. Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke collaborating in Kubrick’s NYC apartment. via oldnewyork

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staff:

A gift for New York verse enthusiasts: Tumblr and Knopf Books are sponsoring “A Celebration of Poetry” at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe on Monday, April 23. Featured readers include Poet Laureate Philip Levine, 2012 Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy K. Smith, and two poets from the Tumblr community, namely Saeed Jones and Karolina Manko. The event is open to the public and starts at 7pm. Meanwhile, check out more poetry on Tumblr.

Happy poetry month! If you are in NYC tumblr’s co-sponsoring this

happy tax day (observed): get yours in? “A woman at an IRS information center in New York, 1944.” Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt (they guy who shot the famous V-J Day kiss in Times-Square NYC) via anneyhall

Andy Warhol at Gristede’s supermarket, New York (1962) (via The Failsafe Gift Guide - Andy Warhol ‘Giant’ Size) via pjmix

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“Preparing the Times Square New Years Eve Ball c.1978” via maudelynn

Happy New Years, whatever zone your ball is dropping in tonight!

Vintage Wall St. Occupied by 2 kids. heh. via yes-yeah

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laughingsquid:

Gran Elefandret, Sculpture of an Elephant Balancing on its Trunk in NYC

Banana Bag & Bodice are going to the Edinburgh Fringe! Before that though, benefits in NYC & SF, and here’s a little post about all of that…

laughingsquid:

Banana Bag & Bodice Take Their Beowulf SongPlay to Europe