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From Manhattan's Cantonese enclave to Flushing, where Mandarin rules, the food and language in city's Chinatowns tell stories ...
This goes for hair, as well. A certain 1980s hairstyle has slowly been threatening a comeback that would leave many facing nightmarish flashbacks of their own past salon transgressions and ...
Comedies in the 1980s were just built differently. Sure, there are plenty of examples of movies that have been reevaluated for their questionable humor in more modern times, but one thing even the ...
Authorities said they received a 911 call from an 11-year-old girl around 10:15 a.m. from an apartment on 84th Street near 16th Avenue in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn. During the call ...
The 1980s, man. What a wild time. It was back in the age when people only had three television channels, and the most popular shows of the era got tens of millions of views. Now, in the age of ...
Wayne Angell, who brought a farmer’s wariness of inflation to US monetary policy-making during an eight-year term on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors starting in 1986, has died. He was 94 ...
In the 1980s, developers envisaged a theme park that was to be the British answer to the US’ successful Disney parks, putting £346m behind the project to build the park in Corby. The park was ...
In early 1983, the Philadelphia Eagles football team was on the brink of financial ruin. A strike-shortened season had exacerbated longer-standing shortfalls. Sports Illustrated, drawing on ...
The image - dating from the 1980s - shows paint missing from the legendary sign which has caught the eye of passers-by on Lord Mayor's Walk for decades. It is believed the advertisement - painted ...
The Bensonhurst, Brooklyn native also won Tony Awards for Best Book of a Musical for “La Cage Aux Folles” and Best Actor in a Musical for “Hairspray,” where he originated the crossdressing ...