You and Your Big Mouth: Tom Wolfe on how the Honks and Wonks reveal the phonetic truth about status. From the archives of New York magazine. It first appeared in two parts in the April 8 and 15, 1968.
From cobblers to e-commerce: How buying shoes has changed over 300 years krdo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from krdo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
This series of fascinating pictures taken between 1900 and 1916 features everyday scenes of shoppers and street traders in New York during the festive season.
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A glowing shrine to books
The childrens library on the lower ground level at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library in New York. A mighty wall of books impresses in the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library, a transformed branch that bursts with new services and technology. Max Touhey via The New York Times.
by James S. Russell
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- Muddling along for four decades in a nondescript former department store, the Mid-Manhattan Library, at Fifth Avenue and 40th Street in New York City, served a growing swarm of local residents and commuters even as the branch steadily became a dilapidated embarrassment to the New York Public Library system, as Anthony Marx, its president, put it.