Every so often when you’re walking around, you run across a film crew. This happened last weekend when I was on 6th Avenue near 52nd Street. I was on the west side and I noticed a huge group of people on my side looking directly across the street. I looked and saw the following sight: [...]
Archive for August 2008
Film Shooting on Sixth Avenue
August 15, 2008Jefferson Market Courthouse in Greenwich Village
August 14, 2008At the corner of Sixth Avenue and 10th Street in Greenwich Village sits a very beautiful building. The first time I saw it, I thought it was a church. When I first did a little bit of exploring, I found that it was actually a former courthouse and library and who-knows-what-else. It has quite a [...]
Abingdon Square Park in Greenwich Village
August 13, 2008Somewhere in Greenwich Village…okay, at the corner of 12th Street and 8th Avenue…is Abingdon Square Park. It’s pretty nondescript, but is graced with a Farmers’ Market every Saturday. I’ve been by there a few times and the place is pretty traditional for NYC parks. It’s nice, well attended, and lots of seating. Another thing it [...]
2008 Dominican Day Parade in NYC – Part 2
August 12, 2008This is the second of two posts on the Dominican Parade. The next picture was just one of those things. This guy may have been associated with some group, but I sure can’t figure out who. He and another cyclist were in an open area of the parade and they just kept doing some circling [...]
2008 Dominican Day Parade in NYC – Part 1
August 11, 2008Sunday had the annual Dominican Day Parade on Sixth Avenue. Like last year, it was big, it was loud, it was loud, and it was loud. All in all, a good parade with an enormous amount of audience enthusiasm and, as can be expected, a lot of politics in an election year. The parade did [...]
