Though the American Automat went from revolution to museum relic, there have been a few attempts at reviving the model. In 2015, San Francisco-based company eatsa launched an automatic restaurant, serving food from a wall of compartments just like the Horn & Hardarts of old. Are there still any automats?Read More →

We got to know George “Tailor Made” Weisgerber as he competed for the affections of Tiffany “New York” Pollard on the second season of I Love New York. Tailor Made quickly made it clear he was a romantic physically butting heads with the competitors, specifically Budda. What happened to NewRead More →

Any firearm, electronic dart gun, electronic stun gun, switchblade knife, pilum ballistic knife, metal knuckle knife, cane sword, billy, blackjack, bludgeon, plastic knuckles, metal knuckles, chuka stick, sand bag, sandclub, wrist-brace type slingshot or slingshot, shirken or “Kung Fu star”; or. Are collapsible batons legal? There is no federal lawRead More →

Known as tenements, these narrow, low-rise apartment buildings–many of them concentrated in the city’s Lower East Side neighborhood–were all too often cramped, poorly lit and lacked indoor plumbing and proper ventilation. Why did most new immigrants live in tenements? Because most immigrants were poor when they arrived, they often livedRead More →