Monthly Archives: February, 2018
Quotable NYC
“I found myself agape, admiring a skyscraper – the prow of the Flatiron Building, to be particular – ploughing up through the traffic of Broadway and Fifth Avenue in the afternoon light.” — H.G. Wells
It Happened Today in New York City
On February 7, 1968, The Price by Arthur Miller opened on Broadway and would run for 429 performances. Starring Pat Hingle, Arthur Kennedy Kate Reid, and Harold Gary, the intimate chamber drama with only four characters studied sacrifice and consequence. Though not considered one of Miller’s major classics, it has been revived on Broadway four …
It Happened Today in New York City
On February 6, 1843, the Virginia Minstrels gave the first full-scale minstrel show at the Bowery Ampitheatre. Composed initially of four white men; Frank Brower, Dan Emmett, Dick Pelham, and Billy Whitlock; the troupe applied burnt cork to their faces and played banjoes, tambourines, and other folk instruments. With this performance, they ushered in an …
Quotable NYC
Ordinarily, Alice and I are not among the New Yorkers who are eager to ‘get away for the weekend’. Why would anyone want to get away from a city that has a thousand Chinese restaurants?” — Calvin Trillin
It Happened Today in New York City
On February 4, 1933, Kansas amateur athlete Glenn Cunningham won his first Wanamaker Mile at the Milrose Games at Madison Square Garden. Having nearly had his legs amputated after a horrifying fire injury at age nine, Cunningham learned to walk again and ultimately to run within two years of the accident. He would eventually become …
Quotable NYC
“New York is a city where children of all colors can dance.” — G. N. Miller
It Happened Today in New York City
On February 2, 1968, the Uniform Stationmen’s Association began an 11-day strike after having worked without a contract for six months. The halted garbage pickups led to a pileup of over 100,000 tons of waste in the streets of New York until Governor Nelson Rockefeller declared a public health emergency to wrest control of negotiations …
Quotable NYC
“My favorite city in the world is New York. Sure it’s dirty – but like a beautiful lady smoking a cigar.” — Joan Rivers
Beautiful New York 
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