When Christmas comes to NYC, there are a number of inescapable direct commercial tie-ins. There are the Christmas windows in the major department stores and then there are shops opening up in common areas such as Bryant Park and Union Square. The shops are virtually all small kiosks and are open-air. The vendors are very [...]
Archive for November 2007
Bryant Park Gift Shops
November 30, 2007NYC’s Least Successful Undercover Police Car
November 29, 2007But what do I know? Stealthy NYC cops probably cruise around in this catching perps by the hundreds who have absolutely no idea of the identity of the occupants. I’m not quite so easily fooled. The bumper sticker gives it away. It’s on every cop car in the city. -H
A NYC Christmas Window
November 28, 2007I need a new chair. Hey, it’s NYC and there are lots of places to buy chairs! Right? Well, how come I’m having such a tough time? Ehhh, it doesn’t matter. I decided to go down to ABC Furniture at Broadway and 19th Street to see if they had an acceptable chair. The store is [...]
A Courier on 42nd Street
November 27, 2007I don’t know if this guy is a courier or not, but I like to think of him as such. Without a car in Manhattan, it can be tough to get packages around. Typically, you hail a cab and hope it can fit in; or wait to get one of the few minivan cabs. Or [...]
Merchant’s House Museum
November 26, 2007I recently saw a notice that the Merchant’s House Museum was giving a special showing of the servants’ quarters. Well, that led me to try and figure out what the Merchant’s House Museum was and why would I care about the servants’ quarters. It’s actually a house of a former NYC resident. Former, as in [...]
