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The Fillmore East

January 10, 2008

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

Categories: Greenwich Village, Manhattan, Wanderings

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Eden Fine Art on Madison Avenue

January 7, 2008

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

Categories: Manhattan, Mid-town, Wanderings

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CBS Interactive Art at Union Square

January 5, 2008

Maybe this has spread far and wide, but I’ve recently seen an interesting phenomena where technology allows people to interact physically with projected pictures. The most elaborate have been games where you “herd” ducks into a nest (that’s located in the South Street Seaport), but when I was at Union Square, I ran into this one and wasn’t the only one who found it interesting.

The sign was normally just a blue background with a “CBS Outdoors” logo projected onto a tile wall. Whenever someone walked between the projector and the wall, it would cause a cascade of “bubbles” as if the person’s walk caused cavitation.

Utterly of no use, it was nonetheless visually interesting. But, then, I’m easily amused. And I wasn’t the only one; there were about 3 of us watching as people did “the walk”.

-H

Categories: Manhattan, Union Square, Wanderings

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Where Is Little Italy Anyway? Someone’s Confused.

January 4, 2008

I’ve been meaning to post this for a long time. When I go to Church, I often pass this place on 45th.

“Little Italy Pizza”? And I always thought Little Italy was below Houston…actually, I know it’s down there. Apparently, the owners of this have been chased out by the encroachment of China Town and want to set up a new neighborhood.

And I don’t think it’s a franchise. Just someone who wanted to catch tourists before they got in a cab.

-H

Categories: Little Italy, Manhattan, Mid-town, Wanderings

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The Little Church Around the Corner

January 2, 2008

I went to a new church (at least for me) on Sunday. I don’t know why I thought about it, but I decided to take a look at The Church of the Transfiguration on 29th Street (between Madison and Fifth). It’s better known as “The Little Church Around the Corner” with the story of an actor’s friend trying to arrange the actor’s funeral but being rebuffed by the church and being told that “the little church around the corner” does that sort of thing for actors.

It is pretty small, but it isn’t tiny. It did, however, outlive the larger and grander church that provided the name of this little church. It’s Episcopal and like every NYC Episcopal church I’ve been in, it is dark and sparsely attended. I went to the early service at 8:30am and there were about 10 of us. The attendees appeared to be regulars, though.

The service was fine and I expect to go back. Of all things, it’s closer to me than my other Episcopal church.

-H

Categories: Manhattan, Mid-town, Wanderings

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