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à la mode

love the style of this hand-painted sign that hangs in the Tenement Museum, NYC. (I’m guessing that it originally hung across the street, at 96 Orchard.) It commemorates the history of the garment industry in New York’s Lower East Side.

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found & lost

finally found a minute to run uptown to see Will Eisner: The Centennial Celebration 1917-2017, an exhibit at the charming upper eastside headquarters of the Society of Illustrators. Will Eisner (1917–2005) was a major innovator and influencer in American comic

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subway typography

tile mosaic, nyc subway

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creating a buzz on broadway!

Saw “The Cripple of Inishmaan,” starring Daniel Radcliffe, at the Cort Theatre on Broadway. It’s dark evocation of Ireland in the 30’s was suspended only twice by the ringing of audience cell phones… Remember to turn off your cell phones,

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