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Here’s How the DOT Creates Street Signs [VIDEO]
With millions (yes, millions) of street signs peppering the city streetscape, it's easy to overlook their genesis and evolution.
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Video Showing Essex Street Beatdown from 2010 Surfaces During Trial [VIDEO]
The early morning of May 8, 2010. Four boozed-up friends from Yonkers - Andrew McCray, Martrell Terell, Christopher Montanez and Shadia Brackman - leave Libation on Ludlow.
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Recalling the City’s Garbage Strike of 1968 [VIDEO]
Some 7,000 city sanitation workers went on strike for nine days in early February of 1968, leaving behind a wake of messy politics and accumulating garbage.
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The Incredible Transforming Apartment [VIDEO]
Shoebox living in Manhattan requires function over form...and lots of patience.
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See the Old Bowery in this 1949 Manhattan Tourist Video [VIDEO]
Mighty Manhattan, New York's Wonder City is a two-reel video travel guide (nay, propaganda) of yore first released in 1949.
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A Day in the Life of DOT’s “Pothole Gang” [VIDEO]
The "Pothole Gang" is exactly as it sounds and really does exist. It's apparently nickname for the DOT team dedicated to filling the plethora of potholes that pepper city streets.
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Sid Vicious, Nancy Spungen, & Stiv Bators Take Phone Calls in 1978 [VIDEO]
The punk rocker is remembered more for allegedly stabbing girlfriend Nancy Spungen to death at the Chelsea than for being the mediocre replacement bassist of the Sex Pistols.