New York City has the most major league sports franchises with a total of 11 teams. Watch the 1985 NBA Madison Square Garden Classic game of the Philadelphia 76ers vs the New York Nicks on YouTube from the Aleksandar Nedelkovski channel by clicking here!
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In the public domain movie Topper, a fun-loving couple finds that they died and are now ghosts. They decide to shake up the stuffy lifestyle of a friend of theirs. (From IMDb) Click here to watch this movie on the Public Domain Everything YouTube channel!
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Waldorf Salad was named after the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. In 1886, a chef at the Waldorf-Astoria created this salad for a charity event for a local children's hospital. The original recipe consisted of apples, celery, and mayonnaise and is served on a bed of lettuce. Today, the salad often includes nuts and grapes. Try this recipe from New York Times cooking by clicking here.
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Yesterday was a busy day! Today we will just hit one location, The New York Botanical Garden.
The mission of the New York Botanical Garden is to be an "advocate for the plant world. The Garden pursues its mission through its role as a museum of living plant collections arranged in gardens and landscapes across its National Historic Landmark site; through its comprehensive education programs in horticulture and plant science; and through the wide-ranging research programs of the International Plant Science Center." (From Mission and overview of the New York Botanical Garden).
The Botanical Garden was established in 1891. Its 250 acres encompasses 50 specialty gardens and collections consisting of more than 1 million plants. It is the largest garden in any city in the United States. The New York Botanical Garden is also a National Historic Landmark.
The New York Botanical Garden offers two Interactive Mobile Guide tours that work great on a mobile device! Click on the links below and then scan the QR code with your device's camera.
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This evening try reading some authors that you may have not expected to write books about New York City - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bram Stoker, and Stephen Crane
The Beautiful and Damned
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Click here to access the e-book from Project Gutenberg.
Click here to access the audio book from Librivox.
From Goodreads: the story of Harvard-educated, aspiring aesthete Anthony Patch and his beautiful wife, Gloria. As they await the inheritance of his grandfather's fortune, their reckless marriage sways under the influence of alcohol and avarice.
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Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
by Stephen Crane
Click here to access the e-book from Project Gutenberg.
Click here to access the audio book from Librivox.
From Goodreads: Maggie is the story of a pretty child of the Bowery which is written with the same intensity and vivid scenes of his masterpiece -- The Red Badge of Courage. In her short life, Maggie "blossomed in a mud puddle", was driven to prostitution, and died by her own hand while still a teenager.
Photo of Cover of the first trade edition of Maggie from Wikipedia
Lady Athlyne
by Bram Stoker
Click here to access the e-book from Project Gutenberg.
From Goodreads: Joy Ogilvie, the beautiful young daughter of a Kentucky colonel, plays a joke with her friends, pretending to be "Lady Athlyne," after hearing a story about the dashing Irish nobleman Lord Athlyne. Little does she know that half a world away, the real Lord Athlyne is a prisoner of war in a South African camp, where word reaches him that a woman in America is impersonating his wife.
Upon his release, he decides to investigate the situation and travels to New York, where a near-fatal accident introduces him to Joy and her father. Athlyne and Joy fall instantly in love-but a series of misadventures and dangerous obstacles threatens to prevent their marriage. And when Colonel Ogilvie learns of their affair and challenges Athlyne to a duel to the death, their love just may end in tragedy!
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