This is just a simple post about a nice little church building that I’ve walked by many times, but only recently noticed. This picture is from somewhere around 5th Avenue and 26th Street in the middle of Manhattan. When I originally took the picture, I was thinking in terms of a post commenting on the Empire State [...]
Archive for September 2007
Marble Collegiate Church on Fifth Avenue
September 25, 2007A little too weird
September 24, 2007Just a very quick post on the most unusual thing I’ve seen in a while. I was on the subway recently and had to change to the Shuttle to get from Times Square to Grand Central. As I was going through the Times Square station, the usual spot for entertainers was in use by a [...]
Flowers on Taxis in NYC
September 23, 2007All cabs are yellow…unless you look at the hoods/trunks/roofs nowadays. It seems that something like 5% to 15% of all cabs have this sort of flower stencil on them nowadays. I started noticing it a couple of weeks ago and it turns out that from Sept to December, the taxicabs are celebrating 100 years of [...]
Ankling through Greenwich Village in the rain
September 22, 2007The weather has been so good for so long that I barely check the weather anymore. A few days ago I had seen the all clear for another beautiful weekend…and got surprised. I initially went down to Union Square and found the usual artists and farmers markets in full bloom, but nothing else of any [...]
More on Brooklyn Heights
September 21, 2007I’ve gotten so involved in parades and the like that I’ve neglected a post I’ve been planning to write for a couple of weeks. At the beginning of September, I ankled my way around Brooklyn Heights and I’ve written two posts about it (here and here). But there was more and I wanted to give [...]
