city: new york
dwight school
from the strokes posted in music by donkeyoti
Founded in 1872, the Dwight School went through many iterations and locations before it landed on this Upper West Side location.
A prestigious college prep school, Dwight has seen many notable alumni, including writer Truman Capote and former NYC mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia.
In the music world, singer-songwriter Julian Casablancas, guitarist Nick Valensi, and drummer Fab Moretti of The Strokes met and started playing together while at the school.
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from manhattan (1979), woody allen posted in movies by pete_nice
Isaac (Woody Allen) picks up his son from his ex-wife (Meryl Streep) that is writing a book about their love life, and they head to the Russian Tea Room for lunch.
The Russian Tea Room opened in 1927 as a place for Russian expats to meet, but became a gathering place for entertainment types. The original restaurant closed in 2002, but opened in 2006 with the same name and look.
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from manhattan (1979), woody allen posted in movies by pete_nice
The iconic park bench scene from Woody Allen's Manhattan takes place at Sutton Square, overlooking the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge.
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from typhoid mary posted in history by pete_nice
Although it's now off-limits to the public and currently serves as a bird sanctuary in the Harbor Heron Preserves project, North Brother Island was once a quarantine zone for people with infectious diseases.
North Brother Island held several cases of smallpox, tuberculosis, and other diseases, but the most famous resident was undoubtedly Typhoid Mary.
Mary Mallon, an Irish immigrant who worked as a cook, was visibly healthy to an inspection. After following a trail of fevers and infections in 1906, researcher George Soper connected the dots to Mallon.
Mary was an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid fever, meaning that she carried the disease without suffering from the symptoms. She was forcibly quarantined (twice) on North Brother Island until her death from a stroke there in 1938. She was 69 years old.
View a recent photo essay of the North Brother Island ruins.
view full location details...the cbs broadcast center
from last week tonight, john oliver posted in television by crabapple
The satirical long-form journalism magazine show, Last Week Tonight, shoots at The CBS Broadcast Center.
Tickets can be found at lastweektickets.com
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