Whatever else it may be, Central Park is diverse and varied and just all over the place in terms of what’s there and what you can see at any one time. When it was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux , they seem to take to the idea of it being impossible to see [...]
Archive for September 2007
Belvedere Castle in Central Park
September 30, 2007The Box in NYC
September 29, 2007As much as I wander the streets of NYC and as much as I think I know the City…I know almost nothing. Here’s a place just off Rivington Street in the Lower East Side (LES). Whattaya think of it? There’s not even a sign. I’m not sure which door the the real entrance (the address [...]
The Algonquin Round Table
September 28, 2007As odd as it may seem, one of the great desires I had when I first moved to NYC was to see the Algonquin round table. It took me a month or two, but I did it and I still ankle over there on occasion to check in on it. My version of a thrill. [...]
Cleopatra’s Needle (AKA “the Obelisk” in Central Park)
September 27, 2007I haven’t been to Central Park for a month or more and got the itch to go back. This time I actually had a plan. It hurts to admit that. I’ve wanted to go back to Cleopatra’s Needle and take some photos with my new camera and it meant I needed to make sure I [...]
Freeman Alley in the Lower East Side (LES)
September 26, 2007A while ago, someone pointed out “Freeman Alley”, a tiny little alley just off Rivington Street. I haven’t thought about it in quite a while. T’other day, I was wandering around and about LES and saw it, and spent about 90 seconds wandering the length and width and breadth of the alley-way. Let’s see if [...]
