Yesterday, I did a post about an unusual protest last weekend in Tompkins Square Park that seemed to reference Union Square and Washington Square Park. When I got to Union Square later that day, I found a sort of “silent protest” by the artistic types. By “artistic types”, I mean the craftsmen selling their wares. It seemed to [...]
Archive for April 2008
Union Square Artist Protest
April 30, 2008Tompkins Square Park Protest
April 29, 2008I was recently down in the Alphabet City area and wandered through Tompkins Square Park. While there, I saw a protest in progress at the southern part of the park. The protest seemed centered around a bunch of mailing boxes with slogans. Forgive me, but I couldn’t figure it out. Some of the slogans were [...]
NYC Interview Number 001
April 28, 2008Recently, a friend suggested that I expand my blog to include people. After all, NYC is a whole lot more than its places. “There are eight million stories…” and so on. So, I’ve started to do exactly that. This will be a periodic posting, but we’ll see how it goes. I was wandering around Tompkins [...]
The Yale Club and Nathan Hale
April 27, 2008At Vanderbilt Avenue and 46th Street (right across the street from Grand Central, on the west side) is a nice little place with the initials YC. It’s the Yale Club. There are a whole bunch of these little university-based clubs in NYC. The only one I’ve been to was the Princeton Club, but that was [...]
Lever House Redux
April 26, 2008Well, NYC is always changing and Lever House has updated its pretty bad artwork (at least in my estimation) with equal artwork (also in my estimation). But they moved it indoors! I guess that’s what they consider progress. I’m not any sort of art critic, but I know what I find interesting versus non-interesting. The [...]
