Okay, my previous post was all about the exterior of the famous Chelsea Hotel. It’s nondescript on the outside but has a wall of plaques that would be the envy of any hotel anywhere. The hotel is reknowned as a last vestige of the Bohemian movement in NYC. It sure won’t win any awards for [...]
Archive for November 2007
Ankling to the Chelsea Hotel…or is it the Hotel Chelsea? (Part 2)
November 20, 2007Ankling to the Chelsea Hotel…or is it the Hotel Chelsea? (Part 1)
November 19, 2007Chelsea is one of those “hot” areas that I really don’t understand. Everybody always talks about how it is one of those places that you have to see and be seen…but I’m only moderately fond of it (and that’s a bit of an overstatement). My lack of hipster credentials grows ever more apparent. But don’t [...]
Third Avenue at night
November 18, 2007It’s Autumn and the days are getting shorter. Oddly enough, the nights are lasting longer. Whoda thunk? I don’t often post night pictures if for no other reason than I refuse to fiddle with the camera settings to get the optimal exposures right. It’s not that my little Sony takes bad pictures, they just aren’t [...]
Ukranian March – Holomodor
November 17, 2007My main source of information on upcoming events in NYC has failed me again (http://www.nyc.gov/portal/site/nycgov/index.jsp) . They got almost every single point wrong. Okay, they got the day right, and they got the nationality right. Here’s the announcement: I was a bit askance at it from the beginning. There’s no such thing as an “all [...]
The 14th Street Salvation Army Headquarters
November 16, 2007Nowadays, Manhattan is wealthy and nicely appointed. Union Square and 14th Street are nice and fashionable areas for the most part. But only a few years ago they were horrid areas filled with wasted and wasting people. But the Salvation Army was there for them. The Army still has its headquarters on the spot. It’s [...]
