ooouroboros

ooouroboros t1_j22zi5l wrote

Reply to Opinion: New York finally has momentum on housing and it’s time for a breakthrough by King-of-New-York

The city needs to discourage people buying residential apartments as investments without living here.

Building new housing will not solve the housing problem if investors can just grab up all the units as investments.

If that means huge tax penalties or a whole new sector of building inspectors I don't know but things won't get better unless that happens (or unless the housing market crashes).

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ooouroboros t1_j22uw4y wrote

Reply to Revisiting "One From the Heart," the Film That Almost Bankrupted Francis Ford Coppola, 40 Years Later by Random968

Coppola has made some of my favorite movies of all this time and I wanted to like this movie so much but it it truly, deeply dreadful

I kind of understand why he made the choices he did given the spirit of the times and going against traditional craftsmanship and just kind of 'winging it'

You can find some really nice moments from it, some good songs, some good scenes, some nice 'stills' - but as a whole it is a complete disaster.

I hope he pulls it together for the new film he's making now.

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ooouroboros t1_j1n2wpc wrote

Reply to TIL about Saturnalia - a Roman Holiday held between 17 - 23 December. The holiday was celebrated with a sacrifice at the Temple of Saturn, in the Roman Forum, and a public banquet, followed by private gift-giving, continual partying, and a carnival atmosphere. by TurboBennett

AFAIK this holiday was celebrated around the entire Roman Empire (including Britain) but there may have been pre-Roman empire European days of celebration around that time of year which is very close to winter Solstice.

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ooouroboros t1_j1k761b wrote

Reply to Development v. Historical Preservation? 14 Gay Street in Greenwich Village by BarbaraJames_75

This is the building that is connected to "My Sister Eileen" - right?

Here is the whole movie on youtube - its shot in a hollywood studio I think but fun for fans of historical NYC. Its about 2 sisters from the midwest who move to Greenwich Village in the 1940's to seek fame and fortune. They move into a semi-basement/below street level apartment and lots of jokes about people walking by.

There is also a musical version of the same story from the 50's.

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ooouroboros t1_ixxumh5 wrote

Reply to There are now 5 maps around Crocheron & John Golden Park, the 12th largest park in Queens and 46th largest park in NYC. Our group is proud to have advocated for these maps and to have helped NYC Parks include important landmarks, like the 150 year old Ginkgo Tree. Come to Bayside to check them out! by crocheronpark

They should have a map of all ginko trees for Chinese people - the fruits are a big deal for traditional Chinese medicine.

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ooouroboros t1_ixxsekb wrote

Reply to Your favorite stretch of episodes in a TV show? by bros402

I could name a lot but will say one I bet nobody else will say or will agree with:

I really loved the "This is Us" episodes dealing with the Vietnam war with Jack's brother Nickie being drafted, Jack goes to look for him and what happened that traumatized Nickie.

There is a moment when Jack finds Nickie, and Nickie turns around and the actor his this amazing haunted look on his face.

They also showed something I remember as a kid and never saw dramatized since then which was how the draft lottery numbers were televised to the nation. The show got that just right.

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ooouroboros t1_ivdqr7d wrote

Reply to comment by williamsburgers1 in 1800s Poster by williamsburgers1

that does not look hung but pasted the way 'bills' still are

Usually that would mean that was once maybe an exterior wall that faced the open air. Possibly this 'bill' was used to seal a hole in the wall a draft was coming through.

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ooouroboros t1_ivdq407 wrote

Reply to comment by flyerhell in 1800s Poster by williamsburgers1

Maybe it was once an exterior wall which a newer building used as a shared wall?

But could be like, someone in the 1940's found a poster from the 1860's and thought it would be cool to glue to their wall, who knows.

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ooouroboros t1_ivdpayg wrote

Reply to comment by williamsburgers1 in 1800s Poster by williamsburgers1

Must be from a "dime museum" - kind of like combination museum of curiosities and theatrical 'freak shows' like what later would be sideshows in the circus or Coney Island. There would be a stage where the 'performers' would do their thing. Also this might be seen as an early form of Vaudeville which did not exist yet in the 1860s.

Barnum's Museum (which predated when he took his show on the road as a 'circus') was like a super-size version of a dime museum.

I wonder if that wall in your picture was once an exterior wall - does not like the kind of thing people would glue to their room like that unless someone much later than the 1860's put that up on their wall.

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ooouroboros t1_iucd9ck wrote

Reply to TIL In China more than 40 million people live in caves by likessvenska

Wow - I knew that was a thing in the past but didn't realize it still went on.

If memory serves, the largest loss of life in a natural disaster in human history happened in China I think in the 1400's (?) when a huge chain of cave habitats collapsed and like 300,000 people died.

Apparently these caves were of very soft stone which made them easy for people to carve into but also ultimately ended in the catastrophe named above.

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