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The Outdoor Co-ed Topless Pulp Fiction Appreciation Society was a group of several dozen women and a few men that had, since August 17, 2011, [1] organized regular gatherings around New York City, meeting to read and discuss books in public while topless.
Manhattanhenge, also called the Manhattan Solstice, [1] is an event during which the setting sun or the rising sun is aligned with the east–west streets of the main street grid of Manhattan, New York City. The astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson claims to have coined the term, by analogy with Stonehenge.
Yu & Me Books is an independent bookstore in Chinatown, Manhattan. The only bookstore in New York City owned by an Asian American woman, the bookstore sells books relevant to the Asian American diaspora and has hosted events with authors like Ocean Vuong , Sayaka Murata , and Hua Hsu .
There's only one more chance this year to possibly take in Manhattanhenge, the biannual alignment of the setting sun with the city's east-west streets that brings New Yorkers out of their ...
West 37th Street Entrance. The Camera Club of New York was founded in 1884 as a photography club. Though the Club was created by well-to-do "gentlemen" photography enthusiasts seeking a refuge from the mass popularization of the medium in the 1880s, it accepted its first woman as a member, Miss Elizabeth A. Slade, in 1887, only four years after its inception, and later came to accept new ideas ...
It was founded in 1871. Originally called the New York Sketch Class, [4] and later the New York Sketch Club, [5] the Salmagundi Club had its beginnings at the eastern edge of Greenwich Village in sculptor Jonathan Scott Hartley's Broadway studio, where a group of artists, students, and friends at the National Academy of Design, which at the time was located at Fourth Avenue and Twenty-third ...
56 years ago today on Oct. 21, 1959, the Guggenheim Museum sparked the curiosity of millions when its abstract design popped up on New York City's elite Fifth Avenue.
The Page Turner (French: La Tourneuse de pages) is a 2006 French film directed by Denis Dercourt. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival . [ 3 ] The $4.2 million (€3.07 million) film went on to become an international box office success [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] , grossing $11.1 million worldwide.