No matter how many times I tell myself to take my camera, I seem to ignore my own advice. Today is Halloween, and in NYC that means the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade. That’s one parade I really don’t plan to cover, but everybody keeps telling me I’m really missing something. Maybe I am. Well, I’m actually [...]
Archive for October 2007
A Famous Ankles Halloween Skate
October 31, 2007Trump Place Part 2
October 30, 2007Back to my talking about my old home grounds in the Upper West Side. I really loved living at Trump Place. I stared out onto the Hudson River virtually every day. And this is from a guy who never opens his curtains nowadays. I don’t have the need for natural light that virtually everybody else [...]
Trump Place Part 1
October 29, 2007Trump Place an enormous rental/condo set of building on the Hudson River named after…Donald Trump. I guess that most of the people who have heard of it are aware of it because it is associated in some way with his show “The Apprentice”. I’ve never seen the show but I heard it was associated with Trump Place in [...]
Hail, the conquering pizza: Lombardi’s Pizza!
October 28, 2007You’ve read my ramblings about the disappearance of Little Italy. You’ve seen my flat out statements that Little Italy is only parts of Mulberry Street. The problem with flat out statements like that is that there are going to be exceptions. And Lombardi’s is no small exception. As you can see from the street sign: [...]
Bombs at the NYC Mexican Consulate
October 27, 2007I took some time off and spent part of Friday wandering through the wilds of Chelsea (forthcoming posts) and decided to walk home from there. I was walking on 39th Street toward Madison Avenue when I noticed that the crowd at the corner was a little odd. They just were standing there. No one crossed the [...]
