Mechanized Lunch is Due for A Comeback

Written by Regan Hofmann on July 26, 2012. Posted in Dining Our Town, Eat & Drink, Our Town

By Regan Hofmann The New York Public Library’s Lunch Hour NYC exhibit is an engrossing, immersive look at how New York City invented lunch as we know it, shifting the sizable agrarian end-of-work supper to a timely pause from the day’s business. Sustenance was needed, but we city folk couldn’t be bothered to stop working
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NYPL’s Gallery Exhibits Moveable Feast

Written by City Arts on July 26, 2012. Posted in Arts & Film, Arts our town, Arts our town downtown, Arts west side spirit, Museums, Our Town, Our Town Downtown, West Side Spirit

NYPL brings back a moveable feast By Caroline Birenbaum It’s always fun to see how the palatial Gottesman Exhibition Hall at the New York Public Library is transformed by the nature of the material on view. This summer it has become a vast food hall, where the social history of the lunch hour is presented,
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