metro area: new york / northern new jersey / long island, NY-NJ-PA
russian tea room
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.
view full location details...massa’s tavern
from the best show posted in radio by ratsnamgod
According to Tom Scharpling, "[Massa's is] an old man bar. It's well kept though. This is not like something from 8mm".
Check out Massa's bartender Mike Lisk as AP Mike on thebestshow.net every Tuesday 9PM to 12AM EST
view full location details...the park bench from manhattan
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.
view full location details...town and country jeep chrysler dodge
from this american life posted in radio by pete_nice
Featured in the This American Life episode called "129 Cars," the Town & Country Jeep Chrysler Dodge in Levittown on Long Island is a boiler room of salespeople and strategists doing what they need to do to hit their numbers.
I'm looking forward to when I can binge watch this reality show.
view full location details...north brother island
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.
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