It’s so small that it’s easy to walk right by “The Creative Little Garden“. Yet, it is so nearly perfect that it may be my favorite garden in the City. It’s located at 503 6th Street between Avenue A and Avenue B. It’s a block away from Tompkins Square Park which makes it a little [...]
Archive for May 2008
The Creative Little Garden in the LES
May 31, 200810th Street – A good street for a good street fair
May 30, 2008I usually hate street fairs. If I need a pair of socks, I’ll go to a store. I don’t like to eat the food at them as it looks…a little unclean. But there are some good street fairs. They’re the ones that keep out the sock merchants and the gyro places and the like. I’ve [...]
Fleet Week and the USS Kearsarge – Part 2
May 29, 2008It was Fleet Week. In yesterday’s post, I talked about the outside and the inside of the USS Kearsarge, a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship, or a LHD. It took me a while to find exactly what “LHD” stands for. I found it in a GAO report that states: “Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD) ships are the Navy’s [...]
Fleet Week and the USS Kearsarge – Part 1
May 28, 2008Memorial Day weekend always marks NYC’s Fleet Week where New York is visited by Navy ships and sailors and Marines are spotted everywhere. It reminds you how casual the city is and how grimy the streets are when you see the sailors in their blinding white uniforms. This year, the City was visited by the [...]
Memorial Day at Kimlau Square
May 27, 2008This is my second time going to Kimlau Square for a holiday observance. The first time was in 2006 when I was wandering through Chinatown on Veterans Day and ran into the American Legion performing an observance. I was thoroughly touched by it and thought I’d do the same thing this Memorial Day. Kimlau Square [...]
