Frida Kahlo once told the New Yorker that her husband, Diego Rivera, lost a whopping hundred and twenty-five pounds while painting the controversial Rockefeller Center frescoes. Read more.
Unfamiliar with the city and hiding out from fans, Charlie Chaplin once stayed here in 1916 because he didn’t know of any other hotel where you could dine. Read more.
In 2010, Tad Friend sought to achieve what had once been done by John Updike in 1956: to walk from the Empire State Building to Rockefeller Center without ever setting foot on Fifth or Sixth Avenue Read more.
приходите в 18:00 31-го числа любого месяца к концертному залу им. Чайковского. Необычное зрелище и неожиданные впечатления гарантированы. Если будете кричать, вас даже бесплатно покатают по Москве
In 1967, before it opened, one man muttered to no one in particular that it resembled an oil-storage tank, and a woman told a companion that it reminded her of a hatbox. Read more.
The lost and found in this once glorious transit hub took in more than fifteen hundred umbrellas in 1947, according to a Talk of the Town story. Read more.
This is where it all begins. Or ends. Where S returned from boarding school, where B headed to Yale, and where D and S struck up an unlikely romance. (I Will Always Love You) Read more.
