I’ve commented before about cool graffiti in the Village. It probably isn’t correct to call it graffiti, instead it is more of a cool mural that (I think) graffiti can/is be put on by amateurs without marring the product. It’s just too good to be randomly created.
If you look at the left portion of this picture, you can see the phone number to call for Lower East Side murals.
-H
I ran across an area that I’m told is the old Fillmore East.
Wow.
It’s located on 2nd Avenue and 6th Street in the East Village.
It’s now a Emigrant Savings Bank location. It looks like it may have been torn down and reconstructed, and I’m told parts of it are apartments now. Everyone who was anyone in rock played there. Well, at least old rock and roll. The Allman Brothers, Jefferson Airplane, Doors, Led Zeppelin…the list goes on and on.
What I do know is that when I was a kid, the Fillmore East was supposed to be the coolest place anywhere. I was a long, long ways away (actually in Okinawa) and never dreamed that I’d visit.
And I guess I didn’t. Maybe I can go in and use the ATM.
-H
Just a small little post about a small little garden in the East Village. Albert’s Garden, that is.
How small? Here’s what it looks like from across the street.
Yeah, it’s about two car lengths wide. It seems to be the location of an old tenement from way-back-when. Maybe it burned down or collapsed or otherwise was destroyed during the bad old 1970s and 80s. Whatever. It’s gone now and the Manhattan Land Trust has the area. In most places, this would be a vacant lot, but this is NYC and this is now a public garden.
Well, there’s not much growing there now.
It’s open four days a week between April and October.
In NYC, you take your greenery wherever you can find it.
-H
As it is the day of the New Hampshire primary, I thought I’d do my little bit of election posting regarding something I watched in Union Square on Sunday.
I haven’t seen any of the presidential ads yet, probably because NYC isn’t on their radar yet or maybe because they think that it’s a gimmee for Hillary. But, for the first time this cycle, I have spotted a group pushing their candidate: Barack Obama.
As you can see, it’s sparsely attended. Hey, it’s cold and we don’t have an immediate primary on the horizon. Also, it’s just a table in the square. I just noted it as the first I’ve seen.
But what I loved was a vignette going on behind the table. There was a small film crew (reporter and cameraman) interviewing one of the staff. I never heard a word. I don’t know if it was a news reporter or a campaign reporter.
But I loved the contortions.
The interviewer was apparently trying everything she could to keep out of the frame but have the mic close to the speaker. The speaker was game and never seemed to blink as the reported kept changing stances. Although, on close inspection she is cracking a smile on the third picture.
-H
I’m not that much of an art afficionado, but there are a couple of places I do enjoy. The first is the cartoon art place that I’ll eventually post about, and the second is “Eden Fine Art” located on Madison Avenue around 47th or so.
I don’t even know the right names for the styles it has, but there are certain things I like. Look at this display.
Ya gotta love a painting with a mathematical formula (E=mc squared in the above). Maybe they have one with the Fibonacci Sequence…
-H
Famous Ankles 