I was down at the South Street Seaport area over the weekend and saw that they were setting up a basketball court. Not that they were going to play any games there, though. Instead, it seemed to be a combination of Verizon, the NBA, and the WNBA to publicize their products and to let some [...]
Archive for June 2008
Basketball at South Street Seaport
June 30, 2008Tudor City Greens
June 29, 2008I don’t put much personal information on this site, but I have mentioned a number of times that I live in the Tudor City section of Manhattan. It’s generally older and a little more residential in nature than a lot of other areas. There’s a bit of retail, but you usually have to go a [...]
Waterfalls in New York City
June 28, 2008It appears that some Danish/Icelandic artist by the name of Olafur Eliasson set up four waterfalls near Manhattan. I can now attest to two of them. I don’t know about the others. I went down to the South Street Seaport today to take a look. I had seen the early setup of one of them [...]
Cruising Around Manhattan. Boat Cruise, that is…
June 27, 2008I recently got the chance to go on a work-related boat cruise around Manhattan (well, actually, only about a third of the way and back) and did have my camera. Being Famous Ankles, I spent a lot of the trip just snapping pictures. There’s not much of a storyline to the photos, so I’ll be brief. Oh, [...]
307th Infantry Memorial in Central Park
June 26, 2008Near the clamshell in Central Park (at the level of 69th Street and just to the east of Fifth Avenue) is a war memorial that I have never noticed before. It’s the World War I memorial to the dead of the 307th Infantry, 77th Division of the Allied Expeditionary Forces from New York. The area [...]
