http://www.cityofsmoke.com New York History, Commentary, and Culture Sat, 12 Feb 2011 03:02:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1571 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1571#comments Sat, 14 Feb 2009 03:04:25 +0000 William Bryk http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=1571 Nassau Street was named some time before 1696 in honor of William of Nassau, the Dutch prince who became King William III of England in a 1689 coup d'etat. Now largely a pedestrian mall, it winds south from its intersection with Park Row at Printing House Square to Wall Street. Much of it is lined with late-Victorian office buildings, their imposing masonry and cast-iron facades rising almost unnoticed above the frenetic retailing on their ground floors.]]> http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1571/feed 0 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1425 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1425#comments Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:42:11 +0000 William Bryk http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=1425 Acurrent off-off-Broadway production, Miami Beach Monsters, revolves around the notion that several classic movie monsters, now retired to Florida, are rediscovered thanks to a new issue of commemorative postage stamps. (Dracula, apparently, complaining he never consented to the use of his image). This charming notion is already old-hat]]> http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1425/feed 0