I’d been away from Harlem for too long. I knew I wanted to go back there during the cold times just to see how it was handling the change in weather. When I realized that I was going to be off during the week of Christmas, I couldn’t resist and decided to go there on [...]
Archive for December 2007
Christmas Eve in Harlem
December 31, 2007Greenwich Village Christmas Decorations
December 30, 2007Most of the NYC Christmas decorations that you see in public are done by companies or by the City. However, one area with some simple and effective decorations was done by homeowners (or perhaps by the cooperatives) in Greenwich Village on 10th Street. It’s the simplest stuff that is generally the best. In the above [...]
Tiles for America in the West Village
December 29, 2007Christmas Eve was a day that I did a lot of wandering. My habit on that day, and on Christmas Day, is to wander about and wish people a Merry Christmas. It’s fun, unexpected by the recipients, and is almost always welcomed by them. I get a lot of “Merry Christmas” responses, but it is [...]
Protest against foreclosures
December 29, 2007I did a lot of wandering about on Christmas Eve. I ended up in the East Village, near Union Square, and saw a protest going on. It was being held near a Washington Mutual branch and they were protesting foreclosures. They had a couple of camera crews and the occasional passing-by viewer/photographer like Famous Ankles. [...]
Gramercy Park
December 28, 2007Gramercy Park is a very quiet, very nice, and very exclusive part of Manhattan. It is, of course, part of the Gramercy neighborhood that starts somewhere around 34th Street and goes down to somewhere around 14th Street. It’s on the east side of Manhattan. Gramercy Park is a little different that other parks in Manhattan. [...]
