Today is the 160th anniversary of the Astor Place Riot. Absurdly enough, the riot erupted between supporters of British actor William Charles Macready and his American rival Edwin Forrest. If you want some more details, the Wikipedia article is remarkably well fleshed out.
Ordinarily I wouldn’t post something like this…Brooklyn ain’t my bag, but we’re talking bacon! Tomorrow, Sunday March 29th, there’s a bacon cookoff at Radegast Hall and Beer Garden in Williamsburg.
Details at chili-takedown.com
This post will evolve as I add more useful Twitter streams to the list. I would suggest that you check how frequently these post before enabling Device updates.
Tools (no more than half a dozen updates per day)
Subway alerts: you can also get alerts for specific lines from this page
nycdeals: Time Out New York’s deals and discounts
myopenbar_nyc: drink specials and open bars around the city
News and such (updated often, probably not wise to send to your phone)
Curbed
DowntownExpress
Gotham Gazette
Gothamist
NewYorkology
streeteasy
The Real Deal (NY real estate news)
OK, so I’ve got digitalmanhattan.com up and running using Wordpressμ.