So, where were we with the Persian Day Parade? Oh yeah, more floats and dancing girls. I actually don’t mean to be too flippant with the “dancing girls” lines. In fact, the ages of the dancers went from very young to women of a certain age. The dancers, who were mostly female, were always modestly [...]
Archive for March 2008
Persian Day Parade – Happy Norooz, folks – Part 2
March 31, 2008Persian Day Parade – Happy Norooz, folks – Part 1
March 30, 2008New York is lousy about announcing some of its better events. As I went to Church, I ran across a bunch of parade barricades on Madison Avenue. There had been nothing about a parade in the Events Calendar, so I figured that it might be a protest. Or maybe it was going to be something good… So, after Church [...]
Pearl Theatre Company and the LES Handprints of Fame
March 29, 2008St. Mark’s Place (aka, 8th Street between 3rd Avenue and Avenue A) has some of the most interesting places in the Lower East Side. I really enjoy it down there. Recently, I was walking past a place I’ve seen a number of times, Pearl Theatre, and looked down and saw that they’ve got a sort of Mann’s [...]
The Whole World is in Greenwich Village
March 28, 2008There’s an old cartoon that shows how New Yorkers view the world, with Manhattan being about 90% of the map of the US. Like everyone else, I always found it humorous and a bit arrogant. Well, that’s before I discovered that Greenwich Village encompasses the Whole World! It’s now a documented fact. In case you [...]
The Subway Shuttle and an Odd Motiff
March 27, 2008The Shuttle is a subway that goes between Grand Central and Times Square. It’s one of only a very small number of east-west subways in Manhattan. It just has those two stops. On a recent day, I was using the shuttle in my quest to get to Greenwich Village and noticed that they are up to their [...]
