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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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Israeli Knesset Member Naama Lazimi called out Prime Minister Benjamin #Netanyahu and held him responsible for the October 7 attacks. It is one of the most scathing speeches I have heard in a long time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=auQ7... #Gaza #Genocide
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What happened after the shutdown is business as usual with the party. Even with a super majority like 79 93 09 2020.
November 21, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Israeli Knesset Member Naama Lazimi called out Prime Minister Benjamin #Netanyahu and held him responsible for the October 7 attacks. It is one of the most scathing speeches I have heard in a long time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=auQ7... #Gaza #Genocide
November 21, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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A resourceful architect solved a plot between differing facade lines by designing this 1854 Kips Bay house with a curved bay. None of its Italianate details survive.
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The Matthew B. Wynkoop House - 153 East 33rd Street
photograph by Anthony Bellov When he sat down to his drafting table to design a four-story house at 108 East 33rd Street (renumbered 153 i...
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November 20, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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The original owner of this East Village house, E. L. Rosemon, worked tirelessly for the betterment of the working class. Since 1990 it houses a non-for-profit.
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The "Mercy House" - 320 East 3rd Street
photograph by Carole Teller Around 1855, a row of three-story-and-basement homes were erected on the south side of East Third Street betwe...
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November 19, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Australian cartoonist David Rowe sums up the relationship between #MBS and T.Rump perfectly.
November 19, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Designed by Neville & Bagge in 1904, Latona Hall was home to some sketchy characters in the 1930s. Its handsome, hand-wrought ironwork survives.
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Latona Hall - 851 West End Avenue
photograph by Anthony Bellov At the turn of last century, the mansions that lined West End Avenue were being rapidly demolished and replac...
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November 18, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Physically moved 20 blocks north in 1890, the Hudson River Yacht Club operated at the foot of 92d St until 1934, when it moved to Bklyn
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The Lost Hudson River Yacht Club - Riverside Drive and 92nd Street
The enclosed portion of the lower veranda was possibly part of renovations in 1902.  Note the skylight that lit the staircase inside.    pho...
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November 17, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Lustily decorated with complex terra cotta panels, 206-208 E 9th is a striking and unusual work of George B. Post. Remarkably unaltered, it has no landmark protection.
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George B. Post's 1886 Livingstone - 206-208 East 9th Street
In 1885, seven years after he designed the magnificent Cornelius Vanderbilt II mansion at Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, George Browne Pos...
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November 15, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Originally the 36-ft wide mansion of millionaire James Lanier, 16 W 10th was home to multiple well-known artists in the 20th c. Modern Psychoanalytic Studies occupies the bldg today.
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The Sadly Altered 1855 James F. D. Lanier Mansion - 16 West 10th Street
In 1854, banker and importer Clinton Gilbert, who lived at 50 Tenth Street , joined with iron merchant Henry L. Pierson to erect two specu...
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November 14, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Demanding Accountability, Seeking Justice. The Hind Rajab Foundation is devoted to breaking the cycle of #Israeli impunity and achieving justice for all the victims of the #Gaza #genocide. www.hindrajabfoundation.org
THE HIND RAJAB FOUNDATION
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November 14, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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Samuel Shor, who lived in this John C. Watson-designed apt bldg, enjoyed an enormous income from picking the pockets of mass transit crowds in 1911.
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John C. Watson's "The Avenue" -- 239-253 East 5th Street
photograph via David Mullins Real estate developer Isaac Sohnger completed construction of the six-story, brick-faced apartment building a...
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November 13, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Originally the John Stuyvesant stable, this charming East Village bldg has been a bedspring factory, theater, and a string of restaurants.
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The John R. Stuyvesant Stable - 231 East 9th Street
John Reade Stuyvesant was born on June 10, 1798 to Nicholas William and Catherine Livingston Reade Stuyvesant.  He and his wife, the forme...
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November 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM
#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