Across from Bellevue Hospital is a very pleasant little park: Bellevue South Park. It was cold and windy the day I went by there, but you can see that NYC has done a nice little job with the place. And they’ve done one of their great little tricks: lots of places to sit. The seating [...]
Archive for the ‘Gramercy’ category
Bellevue South Park
March 14, 2008Bellevue Hospital
March 13, 2008Long before I set foot in NYC, I had heard of Bellevue. It seemed to be a staple element of detective novels and crime dramas and the occasional biography that I read. It was always associated with the worst-of-the-worst sorts of situations: shootings, stabbings, rape, the homeless and their afflictions, and often psychiatric disorders. Bellevue [...]
Gramercy Park
December 28, 2007Gramercy Park is a very quiet, very nice, and very exclusive part of Manhattan. It is, of course, part of the Gramercy neighborhood that starts somewhere around 34th Street and goes down to somewhere around 14th Street. It’s on the east side of Manhattan. Gramercy Park is a little different that other parks in Manhattan. [...]
William Seward Statue
December 27, 2007I went by Madison Square Park the other day whilst wandering about (I haven’t used the word ‘whilst’ in a long time and am happy to end that drought). Two items impressed themselves upon me. First, the Shake Shack was closed for the season. In an earlier post, I had commented how wildly popular the [...]
