Friday’s snowfall affected Union Square on Saturday, at least to some extent. On weekends, even in the dead of winter, there’s always something going on there. But when I walked through there on Saturday, I got the definite feeling that very little was happening. Just wet and slushy. There was just the tiniest hint of [...]
Archive for February 2008
Union Square After the Snowfall
February 24, 20082008′s First Snowfall in NYC
February 23, 2008Yesterday I awoke to a winterwonderland…or a slushy street scene (take your pick). As for me, I love it when it snows and decided to catch a couple of pics to commemorate the first real snow this year. Of course, I had to go to work but no big deal. Here’s a scene in Tudor [...]
Union Square Dog Run
February 22, 2008I recently posted on the Tompkins Square Park dog run and how it was considered one of the top dog runs around. I made the comment that I’ve never seen a dog run with any grass in it and decided I’d go ahead and post on the one dog run that I see on a [...]
The Second Avenue Deli
February 21, 2008When I think of “delis” in NYC, two images come to mind. The first is the little places you see everywhere in this city. In essence, they’re a variation of a Seven-Eleven store with some groceries and drinks and some food-to-go sorts of stuff. They differ from a 7-11 in the sense that they often [...]
Yiddish Theater Walk of Fame on 2nd Avenue
February 20, 2008The Lower East Side was heavily Jewish and German for a long time in the 1800s-1900s. The people there created their own theater where they spoke and performed in Yiddish. I don’t know how many theaters there were, but apparently enough to sustain a number of performers throughout their professional lives. I was on a tour [...]
