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May 24, 2013
guess today’s a good day to walk across it, rain be damned.  nypl: Happy Birthday Brooklyn Bridge! According to this photograph by Irving Underhill from the Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection - “The Brooklyn (East River) Bridge, looking towards Manhattan from Fulton Ferry, in Brooklyn… Begun, 1870; completed 1883; opened, May 24, 1884. Length between terminals, 7,580 feet; river span, 1,595 feet. Cost, $21,000,000. Two cable and two trolley-car tracks, two wagon ways and a footpath. Every day 4,000 cars and 2,000 vehicles cross east and west. Average number of passengers every twenty-four hours, 300,000, making over 4,000,000,000 since opened to 1903.”

guess today’s a good day to walk across it, rain be damned. 

nypl:

Happy Birthday Brooklyn Bridge! According to this photograph by Irving Underhill from the Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection -

“The Brooklyn (East River) Bridge, looking towards Manhattan from Fulton Ferry, in Brooklyn… Begun, 1870; completed 1883; opened, May 24, 1884. Length between terminals, 7,580 feet; river span, 1,595 feet. Cost, $21,000,000. Two cable and two trolley-car tracks, two wagon ways and a footpath. Every day 4,000 cars and 2,000 vehicles cross east and west. Average number of passengers every twenty-four hours, 300,000, making over 4,000,000,000 since opened to 1903.”

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May 24, 2013
natgeofound: Girls in swimsuits sip from a water fountain in New York, July 1948.Photograph by B. Anthony Stewart, National Geographic

natgeofound:

Girls in swimsuits sip from a water fountain in New York, July 1948.
Photograph by B. Anthony Stewart, National Geographic

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May 22, 2013
humansofnewyork: “After this I go to work at a pizza shop. My wife and I were college professors in Bangladesh. I taught accounting. But one dollar in America becomes eighty dollars when we send it back home.”

humansofnewyork:

“After this I go to work at a pizza shop. My wife and I were college professors in Bangladesh. I taught accounting. But one dollar in America becomes eighty dollars when we send it back home.”

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May 22, 2013

trailer was interesting in spite of that horrible smarmy faux-humble “i’m just joe” garbage intro. 

popculturebrain:

Trailer: ‘Don Jon’ - Oct 18

Written and directed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, starring Levitt, Scarlett Johansson, Tony Danza and Julianne Moore.

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May 22, 2013
kenyatta: Detective James Morton, who posted the ad, was using the capital letters as a simple code: In pedophile circles, PTHC stands for “pre-teen hardcore.” The ad was an invitation, and Prine took Morton up on his offer. via The Daily Dot - Sick pedophile code revealed in Craigslist undercover sting

kenyatta:

Detective James Morton, who posted the ad, was using the capital letters as a simple code: In pedophile circles, PTHC stands for “pre-teen hardcore.” The ad was an invitation, and Prine took Morton up on his offer.

via The Daily Dot - Sick pedophile code revealed in Craigslist undercover sting

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May 22, 2013

mediaite:

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Asks Atheist Tornado Survivor If She ‘Thanked The Lord’

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May 22, 2013
perfectionwithinimperfection: 1936 Columbus Circle , NYC

perfectionwithinimperfection:

1936 Columbus Circle , NYC

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May 22, 2013

babyslime:

archiemcphee:

These awesome photos are from the 2013 Weston Sand Sculpture Festival on the sandy shores of Weston-super-Mare in Somerset, England. Each year the festival has a different theme and this year’s theme is Hollywood.

“Since the festival started in 2006, themes have included Fairy Tales, The Continents of the World, Under the Ocean, Great Britain, and The Jungle. What began with two Dutch sand sculptors building a giant King Kong from 30 tonnes of sand has now turned into a world famous get-together of some of the niftiest hands in sand sculpting.

More than 20 of the world’s greatest sculptors from nine different countries are working away using 4,000 tonnes of sand from the beach.”

The festival opened on Good Friday and runs through the end of September.

Visit Dailymail.co.uk to view more of the awesome sand sculptures from this year’s Weston Sand Sculpture Festival.

[via Free York and Dailymail.co.uk]

How…?

What.

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May 22, 2013
just in time for father’s day.  webuiltthiscity: “Troubled Relationship” is now a card category at Walgreen’s, which is great because that’s the sort of situation that is usually best handled via greeting card.

just in time for father’s day. 

webuiltthiscity:

“Troubled Relationship” is now a card category at Walgreen’s, which is great because that’s the sort of situation that is usually best handled via greeting card.

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May 22, 2013
Hard G. just like me. Hard. G. vicemag: motherboardtv: One GIF to rule them all Actually

Hard G. just like me. Hard. G.

vicemag:

motherboardtv:

One GIF to rule them all

Actually

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