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Duly Noted
Photo credit: Urbanite
The wonderful sign for the J.J. Hat Center in midtown. (Photo by Rolando Pujol)
* Manhattan has the waterfalls, but Queens gets into the action, too, but replaces the water with sand! [Queens Crap]
* Taxi cab TVs will be enriched with even more content, giving us even more incentive to shut them off. [City Room]
* Brooklyn Bridge Park will begin to emerge next year. [Curbed]
* Crazy:The former Hotel Riverview on Jane Street goes for hobo chic, and you might even run into one if you are lucky. [Curbed]
* Latest opening date for UWS Shake Shak: Oct. 1. [Eater]
* Bad week for book stores: First comes news of the Strand Annex shuttering, then Biography's battle for survival, and now 12th Street Books. [Jeremiah's Vanishing New York]
* Lost City explores the wonders of Third Avenue in the 20s, including Molly's pub. He also visits MT Food Store, the former Smilers that we have taken a shine to.
* Check out the Keith Haring show at Skarstedt Gallery. [Postcards from Hell's Kitchen]
* Ephemeral New York answers an Astor Place subway mystery, and it has nothing to do with the beavers.
-- Rolando Pujol















