Afflictor: Getting a reaction from the people since 2009.
- Classic DVD: Playtime. (1967)
- Bleg: Help complete a movie about the Mekons.
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Free couch, very stained with dog’s menstrual blood + Fix my toilet and then I will punch you in the face + Looking to trade expired beer + Paint UFOs and Nazis and Bigfoot.
- Great Photography: Elephant races a donkey in Coney Island (1911) + The rent was too damn high in Harlem (1919).
- Featured Video: John Lennon and Paul Simon present a Grammy (1975) + Spinner Topp commercial (1967) + 1988 Russian rock opera + Puppy naps, makes cute sounds + Hair Wiz commercial (1974) + San Francisco made of toothpicks.
- Old Print Articles: Bigamist woman takes two husbands in Astoria (1892) + Josephine Dodge argues against suffrage (1902).
- A brief history of Pong.
- Urban Studies: The inventors behind the brown paper bag.
- Artist Frank Bender solves cold murder cases.
- A posthumous Tony Judt essay looks at NYC’s status as a world city.
- Banksy in a burqa lowers the veil (a little).
- Our hunter-gatherer ancestors worked three or so hours a day.
- Excerpted: Samuel Morse and the telegraph.
- Miscellaneous Media: Postcard to Miss Ella Boldman in NYC (1900) + Postcard to Dorothy Jones in Kentucky (1946).
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