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Because one can never get enough complaining about Brooklyn "mommy culture run amok." [CR]

Jan 18: Enjoy an Evening with Zoe Beloff at MOMA. She will be discussing her current exhibition "Dreamland: The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society and its Circle 1926- 1972," which you should not miss and can read about here. [MOMA]

Yesterday, Gothamist asked where they could find the secret porno theater of Times Square. It's on 7th between 47th and 48th. Here's the outside view from Google maps. Right under the red #7 you see the tell-tale mirrored diamonds--just follow the trail:


John Strong Sideshow makes a plea to return to Coney Island--here's a look from last year. [ATZ]

"reminds us what the arts scene in the East Village, SoHo and TriBeCa was like at the height of the AIDS epidemic, before gentrification and before the downtown ethos and aesthetic were packaged into family viewing spectacles like Rent or those by Blue Man Group." [NYT]

Shitting on the Gap: "The East Village was very creative, vocally and fecally, about expressing its opinion on the encroaching gentrification..." [EVG]

Chelsea Hotel getting packed with bars. [LWL]

When California comes to NYC: "putting on my mother's J. Mendel Mink Coat with my over the knee Prada boots was SO necessary for my walk." [FIPS] via [Curbed]

Nunnery ruins in Dobbs Ferry. [SNY]

The Checker Motors Corp shuts down. How many Checkers are left on the city's streets? Taxi Ray's is gone. And do we have to include the HSBC Bank cab? [CR]

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