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On the Street: Manhattan Mini Storage’s Esoteric Humor

storage wide view

I hardly ever take a cab, but I was riding in one a few days ago, passing through an area of Manhattan that I rarely visit, and it stopped at a red light in front of a Manhattan Mini Storage location.

Manhattan Mini Storage’s ads often make me laugh, but I’ve never seen this one before. Here’s a close-up:

storage detail

If this warning doesn’t inspire a bout of spring cleaning, I don’t know what will. Only in New York, kids—because you either get it or you don’t.

little edie

S-T-A-U-N-C-H!

Images: Manhattan Mini Storage photos by Tinsel Creation. Little Edie photographed by Tom Wargacki, January 8, 1972, via Gettyimages.

On the Street: Bergdorf Goodman Holiday Windows 2012

bergdorf ladies

I have many childhood memories of going to see the Christmas displays in New York’s department store windows. My mother would bring me, and sometimes my grandmother would join us. We might eat a little bag of roasted chestnuts while we gazed at the imaginative tableaux staged by Lord & Taylor, Macy’s, Bloomingdale’s, and all the rest.

More recently, I’ve enjoyed visiting the annual windows with a circle of female friends who share my love of such frivolities. Our favorites are the windows of Bergdorf Goodman on Fifth Avenue. I may not see any of these friends in person this December, but they are very much on my mind and in my heart nonetheless.

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