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@aussiejim48.bsky.social
Left of centre since the 1960’s. I’ve been Woke so long I often have trouble getting to sleep 😴
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Former U.S. soldier Anthony Aguilar spent several months in #Gaza during the ongoing #genocide. He thought he was going to help deliver aid to Palestinians being starved by Israel, but what he saw was a scheme to force Palestinians out of their land. #Zionism > youtube.com/watch?v=DkOSWShgI_c
“I Didn’t Think Anybody Could Be That Evil”
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Only 12.5 feet wide, 127 E 15th was home to the family of Thos. Davis and his artificial eyeball business for more than half a century. It holds 3 apts today.
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January 3, 2026 at 11:22 AM
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With his Tiffany & Co. proving successful, Charles L. Tiffany moved his family into this newly-built East Village house in 1854. It is a single family home today.
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The Charles Lewis Tiffany House - 125 East 10th Street
Identical to its next door neighbor, 125 East 10th Street is on the right. Robert Carnley, who lived at 191 Tenth Street, erected two hous...
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January 2, 2026 at 11:11 AM
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January 1, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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The owner of this ca. 1855 Kips Bay house in 1879 was Dr. Robert Heinmuller, an inspector of contagious diseases. He died at the age of 29. Today there are 4 apts in the bldg.
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The Andrew W. Bogert House - 222 East 32nd Street
image via douglaselliman.com In the 17th century, the farm of Dutch settler Jacobus Hendrickson de Kype stretched northward along the East...
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January 1, 2026 at 10:45 AM
Thought for the month, and for the new year: “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” ~ Albert Einstein
December 31, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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This Anglo-Italianate house in Kips Bay was home to photographer and film maker Ralph Steiner beginning in the 1960s.
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The Edgar and Sarah Lasak House - 244 East 32nd Street
photograph by Anthony Bellov In the 1850s New York City had expanded northward into the Kips Bay district.  Around 1855, a trio of Anglo-Ita...
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December 31, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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ISRAEL IS COMMITING GENOCIDE AGAINST THE INNOCENT CIVILIANS IN GAZA. FACT. PASS IT ON.
December 30, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Is your child a far left extremist?
December 30, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Never forget…
December 30, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Just because I can, and because the T.Rump family of grifters will never look this classy or happy together.
December 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM
This…
December 30, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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"The Kennedy Center is threatening to sue Chuck Redd to enforce the tyrannical precept that we are all, always, everywhere, the king’s performing monkeys. Are our voices our own? Or do they belong to Trump and Trump alone?" — @nberlat.bsky.social
The regime wants to turn artists into performing monkeys
But freedom of speech includes freedom to not praise the king.
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December 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Designed by Janes & Leo, this Upper West Side mansion was converted to apts in 1940. Living here in the early 2000s was actress Betty Buckley.
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The 1900 Albert Goldman Mansion - 305 West 105th Street
In 1899, real estate developer Hamilton W. Weed broke ground for four upscale residences on the north side of West 105th street between Ri...
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December 30, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Working under what newspapers called a "curse," 28 of America's most esteemed sculptors created the Dewey Triumphal Arch. It was demolished the following year.
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The Lost Dewey Triumphal Arch - Fifth Avenue and 24th Street
from the program of The Dewey Reception in New York City, 1899 (copyright expired) Commodore George Dewey's fleet was anchored near Hong K...
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December 29, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Greatly altered today, this ca 1830 LES bldg was the home and barber shop of John Roesch for decades. Today apts fill the upper floors above a diner.
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The John M. Roesch House - 247 East Houston Street
Mary Ellison Lacour occupied the recently-built two-and-a-half story house at 247 East Houston Street in 1834.  She was the widow of Peter...
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December 27, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Designed by Frederick C. Zobel, this Rose Hill building became the NYS Optometric Center in the 1970s and early '80s. It is residential today.
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The 1907 Camera Building -- 122-124 East 25th Street
On April 27, 1907, the Brunswick Realty Co. acquired the two vintage, three-story houses at 122 and 124 East 25th Street and hired archite...
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December 26, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Well, that's a wrap. I finished my 60th book for 2025, Elijah Wald's "Dylan Goes Electric!" I was lucky enough to be in the room when Wald discussed the book at the 92nd Street Y, in New York City in June, 2016. Here's to another year of #books in 2026. #booksky
December 26, 2025 at 8:15 AM
The Trump Class Battleship that the US Navy doesn’t want.
December 26, 2025 at 4:06 AM
When a picture is worth a thousand words...
December 26, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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This Greenwich Village flat building was threatened by Robert Moses's 8-lane Lower Manhattan Expressway. Happily that never happened.
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Francis A. Minuth's 1889 19 Bedford Street
Cast iron piers on each side of the ground floor are all that remain of the 19th century storefront. When Bedford Street was laid out in 1...
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December 25, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Designed by James M. Farnsworth, this flat building sat within the East Village's art center at mid-century, home to artist Raymond P. Spillenger and the important March Gallery.
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James M. Farnworth's 1886 95 East 10th Street
photo by Ted Leather During the trial over purported damages to properties caused by the New York Elevated Railroad Company's erection of ...
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December 24, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Erected in 1872, this Italianate rowhouse would be commonplace anywhere else in the city, but is surprising on the Upper West Side. Living here at mid-century was pioneering Black ballet dancer Janet Collins.
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The Edwin and Carolyn Islee House - 49 West 92nd Street
photograph by Anthony Bellov Sidney C. Genin was among the first of the developers to recognize the potential of what was called the West ...
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December 23, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Designed by Jacob W. Mould, the Church of the Holy Trinity stood on its Midtown site only 8 yrs.
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The Lost Church of the Holy Trinity - Madison Avenue and 42nd Street
from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York A succinct announcement in the New-York Daily Tribune on August 20, 1864 read, ...
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December 22, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Long the home of the Laird family and its fish and oyster stop, this 6th av bldg. was recently renovated. The Wine Gallery has been here since the 1970s.
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The James L. Laird House - 576 Sixth Avenue
The windows originally wore molded lintels. Around 1851, a brownstone-faced four-story house-and-store was erected at 252 Sixth Avenue, ju...
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December 20, 2025 at 10:53 AM