One step at a time
The first rules for fire safety in domestic buildings in New York were introduced in the 1860s, requiring some form of additional exit on buildings that housed more than eight families above the first...
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– Copyright Debbie Smyth, 5 March 2019Posted as part of #spikysquares
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Copyright Debbie Smyth, 7 March 2019 Posted as part of Norm’s Doors
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Do you like a hot dog?Do you like a lot of hot dogs?If you answered yes to those questions, then the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest could be for you. The contest takes place every July in Coney...
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Coffee with the first lady of graffiti
Subway Art – photos by Cooper and Chalfant Lady Pink, born Sandra Fabara in 1964, was nicknamed the “first lady of graffiti” as one of the first women active in the early 1980s New York City subway...
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Up on the roof
View from Innside Nomad Hotel, Chelsea, Manhattan, February 2017 And this called for some music, with an obvious title. Written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin, it was first released in 1962 by the...
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Looking back to 2017
It’s Friday, and time for a flashback to an old Travel with Intent post: Glass Originally posted 5 March, 2017, all images New York, February 2017 Transformation of the World Trade Center site, Lower...
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Lang may yer lum reek
Manhattan skyline, February 2017 Another odd idiom – a Scots phrase wishing a long and healthy life, with a wish of long may your chimney smoke. If you’d like to know more about the Scots language,...
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for …
… the Square Odds Challenge Bell Rock, Oak Creek, Arizona, 2013 Another odd idiom, coming from a work by John Donne. It refers to the bell tolling to mark the death of someone or something, and tells...
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If you’re in Minneapolis
My Listening station in Berlin is part of the above exhibition at Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis. I can’t be there in person – just too far so close to Christmas – but if any of you live nearby and...
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Sunrise over a wintry NYC
Brooklyn to Manhattan, NYC, February 2017 – Copyright Debbie Smyth, 13 September 2024 Posted as part of Becky’s SevenforSeptember Square Challenge …
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