Route 1 cuts through Stock Island between mile markers 4 to 6, just over the Cow Key Channel. This community known for the working class from its days as a freighter port with stock for the liveries, to today’s bustling docks for the shrimp and fishing boats and to the live aboard marinas. […]
It’s the best winter wonderland Florida style right off Route 1 and a must see for the whole family. The Hollywood Hard Rock Hotel is debuting what will surely become an annual holiday tradition in South Florida. Hard Rock your world in about a 3/4 mile journey through two million LED lights across […]
The opening scene of the 1961 film “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” based on Truman Capote’s play caught the imagination of moviegoers throughout the world. The iconic moment is when Holley Golightly played by Audrey Hepburn eats a pastry while gazing at a Tiffany’s window. Audrey Hepburn was a fan of arabica coffee and overnight- […]
Located on 11th Avenue and West 46th street, Patrick Henry Carley opened the Landmark Tavern, an Irish waterfront saloon in Hell’s Kitchen in 1868. New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen got its name from its notoriously violent and poverty stricken past in the late eighteen hundreds. Carley and his wife originally designed the bar […]
The Minetta Tavern is a Greenwich Village institution frequented by its famous literary clientele, layabouts, hanger-ons, various writers, poets and pugilists. It opened in 1937 at 113 MacDougal street, taking its name from Minetta Brook, a small stream that once ran from around 23rd Street down to the Hudson River though what is now […]
It’s not clear who the original inventor of the Eggs Benedict was, but the two main stories point to two locations just off Route 1 in Manhattan, NY. These two locations were the Delmonico’s Restaurant, located at 56 Beaver St, New York, NY 10004, and the Waldorf Hotel, originally located at Fifth Avenue and 33rd […]
Pino’s after over 120 year’s is a true old school neighborhood institution, with its hand-lettered signs, nineteenth century fixtures, it feels like a little piece of old New York. Located in Soho, it’s centered in a vibrant community of Italian immigrants who settled in this neighborhood a hundred years ago. Raised on a […]
Just a few minutes drive off Route 1 is chili dog heaven. Boston natives the Arbetter family, began selling hot dogs back in 1959 on southwest eighth street. This historical Miami landmark began slinging hot dogs at its current location since 1970. Known for its old school look, easy prices, locals, students and […]
The crown cork bottle cap was invented, and manufactured in 1892, just off of Route 1 in Baltimore, Maryland. It was invented by an American mechanical engineer, William Painter. He revolutionized the bottling industry for carbonated drinks by providing an inexpensive, disposable, and leak-proof seal using a corrugated metal cap with a cork liner. William […]
Westfield Garden State Plaza, located in Paramus, New Jersey, stands as one of the state’s most prominent retail destinations. Operated by Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, the center occupies a strategic position where Route 4 and Route 17 converge, placing it within easy reach of Manhattan. Since opening its doors in 1957 as the first suburban mall in New […]
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