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Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'lochness'

April 23, 2008

Last month came the video of an inflatable polar bear set over subway grates would rise and fall as trains passed underneath. The shopping bag art came from Joshua Allen Harris, and he's at it again with a subway monster that you won't need a Subivor kit to survive. Looks like Nessie has found herself a new 'nabe right here in New York; this one was up at 21st between 6th and 7th Avenues.......

Continue Reading "Subway Monster on 21st Street"

December 6, 2007

The Loch Ness monster, who has been tagging the city, has been in a marsh in Brooklyn for over a month. A note to New York's mythical creature coterie, you only have through December 31st to catch Nessie so close to home. The serpent has made the salt marsh off of Marine Park homebase ever since Ridgewood artist Cameron Gainer placed his creation there at the end of October. Using boats and divers at high......

Continue Reading "Nessie on Holiday in Brooklyn"

November 1, 2004

Lucky for Circle Line passengers that touring around the island of Manhattan on a Circle Line boat means that if something goes wrong, you're not too far from civilization. Tourists enjoying a three hour Circle Line tour had to evacuated the boat when it hit something in the East River near Harlem. The Fire Department helped the passengers to shore in the Bronx, where they needed to cross Amtrak train tracks (Amtrak halted service for......

Continue Reading "A Three Hour Tour"

April 21, 2004

The NYPD blamed Canadians Annalise Spencer and Deirdre Barkhousefor swimming in the Central Park Reservoir on Monday. The Canadian tourists were arrested after they "scaled" the four foot chain link fence around the reservoir in the hot 85 degree weather. Barkhouse told Newsday, "I've competitive swam so I thought, 'Hey, it's a beautiful day.' We had no idea it was illegal." Clearly, four foot high chain link fences with no doors in them mean nothing......

Continue Reading "Central Park Reservoir Is Not A Swimming Hole"

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