Monthly Archives: January, 2018
ANSWER:
Staten Island Ferry boats Congratulations to Patrick for getting the correct answer first!
QUESTION:
Alice Austen, John F. Kennedy, Andrew J. Barberi, Samuel I. Newhouse, Staff Sgt. Michael Ollis, and Guy V. Molinari are all namesakes for what?
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“Today he was going to Harlem. The home of the funkiest brothas in the world.” — Teddy Hayes
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“In New York, you’ve got to have all the luck.” — Charles Bukowski
It Happened Today in New York City
On January 27, 1868, Charles A. Dana acquired ownership of the New York newspaper The Sun. Having served as top aide to Horace Greeley and managing editor of the New York Tribune, Dana spent the Civil War as Special Investigating Agent of the War Department, ultimately assisting Secretary of War Edwin Stanton. When he returned …
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“New York is so polyglot and international, it becomes easy for the walker-writer to turn a corner and imagine himself in Prague or Montevideo.” — Phillip Lopate
ANSWER:
The Presidential Medal of Freedom Congratulations to Patrick Casey for getting the correct answer first!
It Happened Today in New York City
On January 24, 1933, Design for Living by Noel Coward, starring the playwright, Alfred Lunt, and Lynn Fontanne, opened on Broadway. Premiering in New York because it was deemed too risqué for the London censors of the time, the intimate comedy was one of the first to deal honestly with bisexuality and open relationships. It …
QUESTION:
In 2015, Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to the U.S. Congress (representing New York’s 12th Congressional District in Brooklyn), was awarded what national honor?
Quotable NYC
“As we cross the crowded, filthy, immigrant street, now black and Puerto Rican instead of Jewish and Italian, she marvels at how changed it all is. I tell her nothing has changed, only the color of the people and the language spoken. The hungry, angling busy-ness of Delancey Street is all still in place.” — …
Beautiful New York 
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