Tag: Bronx

New York Awaits The Mysterious Corpse Flower

Watch our video from the last time the remarkable plant stunk up the city

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Today or Thursday, the mysterious, magical and stinky Corpse Flower is set to bloom at the Haupt Conservatory at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx. Also known as Amorphophallus Titanum (meaning “large misshapen phallus”), the flower—when blooming—smells rotten and generates heat in order to attract beetles and flies to pollenate. While that is all remarkable enough, this is also an extremely rare occasion: …

The 2012 Vantage in NYC

Driving an Aston Martin across the five boroughs to find the best slice

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We first got to test the Aston Martin Vantage S last year at Ascari and it left quite an impression: The svelte, punchy coupe was both a perfect track companion and a delight cruising the picturesque Spanish countryside. It was whirlwind romance, but when we got back to the U.S. we were faced with a question: Would the car’s charms hold up in the day-to-day …