CONTENTS
Because the BRI understands your reading needs, we’ve divided the contents by length as well as subject.
Short—a quick read
Medium—2 to 3 pages
Long—for those extended visits, when something a little more involved is required.
FUNNY PAGES
Short
You Know You’re a New Yorker When…
Hipster Spotting
Loony Laws
Comic Relief
SPORTS
Short
Smarter Than the Average Berra
The Miracle Mets
Medium
They Were Globetrotters?
If Those Bleachers Could Talk
Run, New York…Run!
Madison Square Garden Did It First
REEL LIFE
Short
Destroying New York
City Cinema
Location, Location, Location
Long
Hollywood on the Hudson
CREATURE FEATURES
Medium
Bedbugs, Bedbugs
Where the Wild Things Are
Scoop the Poop
New York’s Finest…and Tallest
Birds of a New York Feather
LIFE IS STRANGE
Medium
Pelted
I See Space People
The Naked Cowboy
IN THE NEWS
Short
Weird News
Weird News
Dumb Crooks
BUSINE$$
Short
Got Diamonds?
Medium
This Guy’s In–saaaa–ne!
Shop Till You Drop
Long
Radio City
THE WRITERS’ CORNER
Medium
The Grumpy Tourist
It’s Puzzling
Opening Lines
Between the Lions
What in the Dickens?
What in the Dickens? Part II
Long
NY ’Zines
Talk of the Town
FOOD & DRINK
Medium
Hole in One
New York Food From “A” to “P”
Bottoms Up
Ten Little Restaurants
Ten Little Restaurants, Part II
New York Food from “Q” to “Z”
Cheers for Beers
Long
Going Greenmarket
Get Your (Everything) Here!
MOUTHING OFF
Short
Talking about NYC
Street Talk
Say What?
The Donald Speaks
TOURIST TRAPS
Short
Strange Statues
Roadside Attractions
Medium
Museum Mania
The Statue of Liberty: Seven Facts
New York on $0 a Day
MUSIC
Medium
The Swingingest Borough
The Apollo
FORGOTTEN HISTORY
Medium
Ghost Stories
Searching for Utopia
Ghost Stories, Part II
Long
Steinway Village
Tenement Tales
Bienvenidos, Fidel!
Murder, He Wrote
POP-POURRI
Short
You’re My Inspiration
Uncle John’s Page of Lists
Celebrity 101
A Long Shortz List
Inside the Blue Box
Medium
Across and Down Bloopers
Art Imitates Life
For Sale: A Bridge in Brooklyn
GOVERN-MENTAL
Short
Know Your Politicians
Medium
Crooked as a Dog’s Hind Leg
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
GREAT NEW YORKERS
Short
Wow…What a Record!
Medium
Andrew Who?
Monuments to Herstory
Long
Emily’s Bridge
INNOVATORS & INVENTORS
Medium
New York’s #1!
New York Inventors
New York’s #1! Part II
More New York Inventors
Long
The Landlord of New York
THE DUSTBIN OF HISTORY
Medium
Who Put the Lights Out?
NYC: Then and Now
The Great Staten Island Gamble
Gibson’s Girls
Shot in New York City
More NYC: Then and Now
The Biggest Fair on Earth
Change by Fire
Ladies’ Rooms
Bright Lights, Blazing City
Long
The Borscht Belt
Take ’Em to Bellevue
Fashion Wars
The Gang’s All Here
I Arrrrgh New York
From Haarlem to Harlem
Murder’s Big Business
The Doctor Will See You
ARTY FACTS
Medium
It’s an Art-i-ful Town
The Art Students League
“Publishers of Cheap and Popular Pictures”
AROUND TOWN
Short
Almost Famous
So You Think You Know New York City
Hey, Taxi!
City Hodgepodge
Medium
Flush with Pride
The Skinny on Skyscrapers
Found in the Ground
Was There Ever an Orchard on Orchard Street?
New York Q & A
Dying to Visit
New York I.Q. Quiz
More New York Q & A
In the Big Houses
Reclaiming Central Park
Save That Site!
Lost Landmarks
Keep Off the Grass!
The Last List
Long
Riding in a Hole in the Ground
Rooms for Rebels
MYSTERIES & HOAXES
Short
The Great Maple Syrup Mystery
Medium
Punked
Punked, Part II
Long
Whodunit?
STATESIDE
Short
State Hodgepodge
Our Town
Nude York
Medium
Only in Albany
The Erie Canal
Long
Hear Them Roar
WEIRD SCIENCE
Short
Manhattanhenge
Medium
The Math Man
The Killer Penny
THE FIVE BOROUGHS
Short
There Goes the Neighborhood: the Bronx
There Goes the Neighborhood: Staten Island
There Goes the Neighborhood: Queens
Medium
There Goes the Neighborhood: Manhattan
There Goes the Neighborhood: Brooklyn
INTO THE WILD
Medium
NY’s Finest (Parks)
Wild Weather
Poisonous New York
Disaster!
LET US ENTERTAIN YOU
Short
Banned in New York!
Medium
Give Our Regards to Broadway
Doink, Doink!
On Broadway
Long
Papp and the Public
ANSWER PAGES
NEW YORK CITY FACTS
• In the early 1890s, 100 European starlings were released in Central Park, the first in North America. Today 200 million starlings live throughout the United States.
• The 4,269-foot Verrazano–Narrows Bridge is so long that its towers have to be a few inches off of parallel to accommodate for the curvature of the Earth.