I went down to the Lower East Side to watch the Turkish Day Parade. It never happened. No parade. No sign of a parade. I have to figure out how to find a reliable source for parade information. While I was there, looking in vain, I noticed a little garden that I hadn’t seen before. [...]
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Sixth Street and Avenue B Community Garden
June 2, 2008The Creative Little Garden in the LES
May 31, 2008It’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 [...]
10th 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 [...]
Dance Parade 2008 in New York City – Part 3
May 20, 2008Here’s my third and last post on the 2008 NYC Dance Parade. The next group was something called “Stage Stars”. There wasn’t a lot of dancing being done by them at the moment, but I did catch one woman having some fun. The next group was, at least for me, the most boring group of [...]
Dance Parade 2008 in New York City – Part 2
May 19, 2008To start my second post on the 2008 Dance Parade, I want to present the bravest and most determined person in the parade. A very vigorous dancer, and a very good one, too. Her act of bravery and determination? She danced in high heels. A woman next to me basically gasped when she saw it and [...]
