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Mapping The 20-Year-Long Gentrification Of 5 NYC Enclaves – Cool Map Thing – Curbed NY
Amid Mayoral Missteps, Irish Eyes Are Rolling in New York City – NYTimes.com
The Unhealthy Meat Market – NYTimes.com
The Unhealthy Meat Market – NYTimes.com.
Meat then and now –
“When President Herbert Hoover dreamed of putting “a chicken in every pot,” chicken was a luxury dish more expensive than beef. In 1930, whole dressed chicken retailed for $6.48 a pound in today’s currency, according to the National Chicken Council. By last year, partly because of Tyson, chicken retailed for an average price of $1.57 per pound — much less than beef.”
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“Poultry Science journal has calculated that if humans grew at the same rate as modern chickens, a human by the age of two months would weigh 660 pounds.”
ETERNiDAY: QUEENS POET LORE FESTIVAL OF THE LANGUAGE ARTS | Queens Museum
ETERNiDAY: QUEENS POET LORE FESTIVAL OF THE LANGUAGE ARTS | Queens Museum.
Lots going on all weekend including:
12:15-12:55 pm “Chinatown Now”, feat. Dr. Hsing-Lih Chou (Flushing-based actor/performer), Rojo Robles (screenwriter, Your Day Is My Nightdir. by Lynne Sachs), and Herb Tam (curator, Museum of Chinese in the America). An eclectic program, including recitation and singing, to underscore the artistic vitality of NYC’s Chinatowns “holding the power to dream” (Frances Chung).
