Results tagged “secondworldwar”

RALLY: Barack is back! This time he's hitting up Manhattan with an evening rally in Washington Square Park. It's gonna be a big one, so get there early! At least this time there won't be any unhappy paying customers, because it's free! Check out his video invite:

READING: Head down to 192 Books for a very special and cool evening - James Salter, short fiction writer, teamed with his wife Kay on , a illustrated food lover's companion that takes readers from a Twelfth Night cake in January to a champagne dinner on New Year's Eve. As always with 192 Books, call ahead to reserve a spot at their readings. - Krissa Corbett Cavouras

Forgotten-NY just put up a three-page magnum opus about Sheepshead Bay, a beautiful neighborhood on the eastern end of Coney Island in Brooklyn. For starters, don't confuse Sheepshead Bay with Bay Ridge, a neighborhood a few miles to the northwest. In the early part of the 20th Century, Sheepshead Bay was a summer destination for people living in the city-- they'd come out and visit the big hotels, and take in the sea breeze for the weekend. Today, the nieghborhood is known for Lundy's, the classic Brooklyn restaurant, the thriving seafood and fishing businesses run out of the harbor, and the Russian and Jewish communities that colonized the area after the Second World War. [Related: some nice winter pix of the neighborhood.]