Noshing at Nom

Written by Joshua M. Bernstein on September 7, 2011. Posted in Eat & Drink

Besides zombie clowns and working a full-time office job, few things frighten me as much as listening to a barber talk. To me, being confined to a chair with scissors clacking and clippers whirring is a form of temporary imprisonment. It’s trusting your life, or at least your looks, to another human being. My unease
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An Opulent Temple at the Foot of Manhattan Bridge

Written by Melissa Berman on August 31, 2011. Posted in Breaking News

With shiny roasted ducks hanging in restaurant windows, bank signs boasting both English and Hanzi lettering and tai chi practitioners and mahjong players filling the parks, a jaunt through Chinatown feels like a travel adventure. But perhaps nowhere in the neighborhood transports you to a uniquely Chinatown experience as much as stepping through the doors
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Closed Chinatown Fair Remembered in Short Doc

Written by admin on August 22, 2011. Posted in Blog

Back in February of this year, the Chinatown Fair, one of the last old school arcades in Manhattan, shuttered its doors at its Mott Street location after losing its lease. According to the blog “Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York,” the arcade was established in the 1950s (if not earlier in 1944). The fair’s famous game Tic-Tac-Toe
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