I love noting little squares and parks throughout Manhattan. You don’t have to look too hard on this blog to find them. And, generally, the smaller, the better as far as I’m concerned. I just find it very fitting and right that New Yorkers fight for every bit of parkland they can find. Hey, we [...]
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Macri Triangle in Brooklyn
July 31, 20082008 Giglio Parade in Brooklyn Part 2
July 14, 2008In my previous post, I detailed how I was in the Williamsburg part of Brooklyn watching the annual celebration of the giglio (lilies) at Our Lady of Mount Carmel. All was well and good and fun. Well, and slow, but that’s okay. And then the violence started. Four years in NYC and the first time [...]
2008 Giglio Parade in Brooklyn Part 1
July 13, 2008A co-worker had alerted me to what he said was a don’t-miss event: the Giglio Parade of the Our Lady at Mt. Carmel Church in Brooklyn (actually, the Williamsburg part of Brooklyn). The way he described it was that it was a tight-knit Italian neighborhood that got together and held a fair/festival at which some [...]
Coney Island in Winter
January 3, 2008Lately, I started thinking that I wanted to see how Coney Island was doing in the winter. So, there I went. So, how’s it going out there? Pretty much nothing’s happening…at least on the weekend I was out there. Or, one can make the case that it is doing a whole lot. The place is [...]
Ankling Brooklyn’s Smith Street
October 6, 2007I watch a number of the local TV shows such as “$9.99″ and “Cool in Your Code” that detail interesting areas around NYC. Brooklyn is a subject in a lot of these shows and they tend to call every area that they are reviewing a new sort of hipster haven. And it seems to be [...]
