Tag Archives: New York

Anarchy on Wall Street

Posted on March 29, 2016 by cosmopolitanscum

On 16 September 1920, a wagonload containing 45 kilos of explosives and 230 kilos of lead weights placed outside the JP Morgan bank at 23 Wall Street in New York was detonated, killing 38 people and injuring many more. The … Continue reading →

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History Plays a Double Hand

Posted on November 25, 2014 by cosmopolitanscum

I have recently enjoyed dipping into Love Goes to Buildings on Fire by Will Hermes – a book about the overlap between the different music scenes in New York in the mid seventies. But I only sampled the book, thanks largely to … Continue reading →

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The Highline and Social Voyeurism or Something That I Thought When I Went to New York Recently Part 1 

Posted on August 29, 2013 by cosmopolitanscum

There is something pleasantly unsettling about the Highline and it is not just the richness of the plantings in an urban context; prairie dropseed; spiked gayfeather; wild quinine; yeah whatever. It is the inversion of the usual egocentric co-ordinates of … Continue reading →

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