Blogs in January 1970

City Secrets: New York 1st January 1970

From the publisher’s blog: Doughnut Plant 379 Grand Street between Essex & Norfolk Streets 212 505-3700: www.doughnutplant.com Closed Mondays. Dany Levy recommends Doughnut Plant Categories: New York City | Travel Doughnut Plant 379 Grand Street between Essex & Norfolk...

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Man on Wire 1st January 1970

Philippe Petit chronicles the day day in 1974 when he illegally walked across a tightrope suspended between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. As early as the late 60s, in France, Petit resolved to carry out this...

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The Magic Barrel 1st January 1970

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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 1st January 1970

Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, detective, vegan, and collector of butterflies. When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade...

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Don’t I know You? 1st January 1970

In Part 1 it is 1976 and twelve years old Steven Engels comes home to his family’s Upper West Side apartment only to discover the corpse of his single mother Gina who has been stabbed to death. A year...

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