Every so often I’ll run into a specialized store that will amaze me with its ability to be in business with a very narrow range of product. The most amazing, at least for me, has been “The Tassel Shop” which sells nothing but tassels. But, I was recently wandering in the Upper East Side and [...]
Archive for the ‘Upper East Side’ category
Rita Ford Music Boxes
February 17, 2008Temple Emanu-El on the Upper East Side
February 16, 2008From what I understand, this Temple is the premier Reform Jewish house of worship in NYC. The building itself certainly is impressive. It is just massive and impressive. It does have a Wikipedia article that goes through the history of the Congregation: it started in the Lower East Side and bounced around that area for decades until [...]
The Kosciuszko Foundation
February 7, 2008Thaddeus Kosciuszko (lots of spellings of his name as you might expect) was a Polish hero of the American Revolutionary War, and on East 65th Street there’s the site of a foundation named after him. It’s a Polish-American group that primarily works to promote educational and artistic exchange between the US and Poland. I’ve heard that [...]
BET Protest
January 28, 2008I was on 65th Street between Park Avenue and Lexington when I started hearing chanting. Intrigued, I sought out the source and discovered a small group of protestors walking in a tight circle in front of one of the townhouses, just using some open parking spaces and not blocking traffic. They were orderly and not [...]
Mariella’s Pizza
January 13, 2008“Cuzn Cathy”, an occasional commenter on this site, mentioned to me that she had heard that Mariella’s Pizza had the best pizza in NYC. Now, Cathy lives in a very faraway land. Why, it’s well beyond New Jersey! (Can you imagine?) How she can find out such information on the mighty subject of NYC pizza [...]
