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Left of centre since the 1960’s. I’ve been Woke so long I often have trouble getting to sleep 😴
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#VEGETARIAN FILO & FETA PIE. Another in my occasional IRENE'S KITCHEN series filmed on the Aegean #BlueZone island, Ikaria. youtu.be/rnJ4QoeSJUs #recipe
Irene's Kitchen: Vegetarian Feta Cheese Pie
YouTube video by Jim Lesses
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#booksky currently reading 'A Straight Lick With A Crooked Stick', by Zora Neale Hurston (eBook via #Libby), and 'A Sand County Almanac', by Aldo Leopold, online via Archive.org.
November 12, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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Designed by Ralph S. Townsend, the interior elements of this #UpperWestSide were stored during a renovation in the 1960s. They were meticulously restored in the early 2000s.
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November 11, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Richard Morris Hunt's masterwork in polychromed cast iron in Soho stood only 29 years, razed in 1901.
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The Lost 1872 Van Rensselaer Building - 476 Broadway
from the collection of the Library of Congress When the two identical Federal-style houses at 474 and 476 Broadway were erected around 1825,...
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November 10, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Tonight was a very bad night.
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Sleepy Don... Wake the feck up and do your job!
November 10, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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In preparing her $1.50 goose in 1896, Katie Rosenthal, owner of this Kips Bay house, discovered a diamond inside. (The butcher raised his prices.) It has a basement apt. today.
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The Moses M. Bradley House - 212 East 32nd Street
An apartment door was installed in the basement in 1990 and the parlor windows shortened.  photograph by Anthony Bellov It appears that i...
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November 8, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Among the celebrated residents of this Greenwich Village house were Glenn Close, Courtney Love and Frances Garr.
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The DeWitt and Victorine Cole House - 436 West 20th Street
Clement Clark Moore donated the block of Ninth to Tenth Avenues from 20th to 21st Street in 1818.  Six years later, the first building of ...
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November 7, 2025 at 11:12 AM
#VEGETARIAN FILO & FETA PIE. Another in my occasional IRENE'S KITCHEN series filmed on the Aegean #BlueZone island, Ikaria. youtu.be/rnJ4QoeSJUs #recipe
Irene's Kitchen: Vegetarian Feta Cheese Pie
YouTube video by Jim Lesses
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November 7, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Designed by Gilbert A. Schellinger, The Swannanoa's occupants have included writers, artists and actors, including Georgia Vere Tyler and John Howard Jewett.
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The 1898 Swannanoa - 105-107 East 15th Street
On July 15, 1897, David Greene sold the "three story brick store" at 105 East 15th Street and the "three-story frame dwelling" next door at ...
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November 6, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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David Sicher, who lived in this Brun & Hauser-designed mansion beginning in 1904, established free schools for his factory workers and pressed for minimum wages. It is a single-family home today
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The 1900 Samuel Haas Mansion - 15 East 80th Street
Samuel Paul Haas was president of Haas Brothers Ladies Tailoring Co.  On October 30, 1898, he and his wife, Isabella, purchased the 21-foo...
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November 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Among the residents of this Emery Roth-designed bldg have been actress Margaret Linn, playwright Corinne Jacker, and economist J. Wilner Sundelson.
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Emery Roth's 1929 110 West 86th Street
image via cocoran.com On March 18, 1928, The New York Times reported that builder David Zimmerman "purchased from Benjamin Benenson the f...
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November 4, 2025 at 11:10 AM
The perfect summation of today's dis-United States... www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
The first honest American president
Trump's shameless corruption is not a deviation from American history but its fulfilment.
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November 4, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Designed by Henry C. Dudley in 1859, the Madison Ave Baptist Church survived until 1929, replaced with the Rogers Williams Hotel that included worship space for the church.
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The Lost Madison Avenue Baptist Church - 131 Madison Avenue
photo by Byron Company, from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York   Organized in 1838, in 1849 the Rose Hill Church chang...
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November 3, 2025 at 11:10 AM
My #ReadingWrapUp for October: four Audiobooks, four print books, and one eBook, 'The Year of Magical Thinking', by Joan Didion. #BookSky #Books
November 1, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Originally a "car stable," this #GreenwichVillage garage became an event venue in the 1980s. It continues such today as "45 Downing."
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The 1910 R. Tassi & Sons Garage - 45-47 Downing Street
Automobiles were changing the streets of New York City in the first years of the 20th century, but only the wealthy could afford them.  Th...
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November 1, 2025 at 10:22 AM
A peek inside my Christmas bookbox. Every year I take a box of books that I have read to our family gathering and let people choose what they want. This is what it have put together so far. #booksky #regifting
November 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I don't usually do Halloween, but my niece wanted to see Eraserhead on the big screen, so we headed to our local cinema to take a peek inside David Lynch's head. In 70 years of film viewing, I have never seen anything as weird as #Eraserhead! #filmsky #DavidLynch
October 31, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Thought for the month: There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility is being superior to your former self. ~ Ernest Hemingway.
October 31, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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This Anglo-Italianate rowhouse in Kips Bay was the clubhouse of the Tammany Central Assoc. from 1911 to 1963. It holds apartments today.
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The Tammany Central Assoc. Clubhouse - 226 East 32nd Street
photo via zillow.com Around 1855, a trio of Anglo-Italianate rowhouses was erected on East 32nd Street between Second and Third Avenues.  ...
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October 31, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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With her Victorian garments ablaze, the owner of this Renwick-designed house met a gruesome end in 1890.
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The Joshua B. Jenkins House - 33 Stuyvesant Street
On September 16, 1854, Matthias Banta purchased the triangular parcel that wrapped the north side of Stuyvesant Street and along the south...
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October 30, 2025 at 10:10 AM
[Jimmy Kimmel] Japanese Prime Minister with Stupid Trump.
October 30, 2025 at 3:16 AM
My 2025 Reading List to date...Print books... #booksky #ReadingLists 3/3
October 29, 2025 at 10:35 PM
My 2025 Reading List to date... #eBooks #booksky #ReadingLists 2/3
October 29, 2025 at 10:34 PM
My 2025 Reading List to date...Audiobooks #booksky #ReadingLists 1/3
October 29, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Loved Sir Ian McKellen’s reading of Homer’s ODYSSEY, as translated by Robert Fagles #booksky #Libby
October 29, 2025 at 9:17 PM