Category: Upper Westside
-
NY- The Science Barge Arrives Back to the 70th Street Pier
Like an an environmentalist jetting off to Switzerland on her Gulfstream to attend a conference about getting people to reduce their carbon footprint, the Science Barge arrived at the West 70th street Pier. Pushed in by a diesel tug and locked in to place by a diesel crane, the science barge managed to offset it’s…
-
NY- Summer School Students at Columbia University
Columbia University Campus was full of students either trying to catch up or get ahead of thier classmates.
-
NY- Museum of Natural History- Asian Peoples Exhibit
If you walk in the main door of the Museum of Natural History and go left until you pass the big elephants, you will find a pretty cool Asian Peoples Exhibit. It’s not as crowded as the dinosaurs so you can take your time meandering through the displays of all the main cultures of Asia.
-
NY- Up On The Roof
Friends of mine live in a building that just added a roof deck. It has great views of The George Washington Bridge, The Riverside Chapel, and The Empire State Building. We had dessert up thier on Saturday but unfortunately the rolliong thunderstorms cut our party short.
-
NY- A Storm Whips Up On West 70th
I walked outside in the swelterring heat to shoot some nightshots with my new Nikon D80 and within minutes the temperature dropped 20 degrees, the wind kicked up and the sky started crackling with lightning. Being that it was only my second time out with my new camera I was having a hard time getting…
-
NY- Artists at Merchants Gate- Central Park- Columbus Circle
Great artists must think alike. How else can explain the onslaught of easels and painters at the USS Maine Memorial at the Merchants Gate in Central Park.
-
NY- Window Shopping on Columbus Avenue
I have never seen a street that is in a constant flux like Columbus Avenue is. It seems that almost every restaurant that I used to get takeout from has been replaced by a new restaurant or become a womens boutique.
-
NY- People Watching in Richard Tucker Square- Upper Westside
The trianglular park right outside the West 66th Street #1 Station is great place to pull up a seat and people watch. Bordered by Barnes and Noble to the north and Lincoln Center to the west, there is plenty of Upper Westside foot traffic day and night. And as a bonus you’ll usually find a…
-
NY- Columbia University is preparing to close up shop for the summer
The Columbia University campus along with it’s Morningside Heights neighborhood is getting ready to say goodbye to the students, honor the Class of 2008, and recapture it’s neighborhood for the summer.
-
NY- Cafe Des Artistes and the Doorways of West 67th
One of the prettiest streets to walk down at night is West 67th off of Central Park West. The street is lined with Gothic studio apartment buildings from a different era and my favorite has to be The Hotel and Cafe Des Artistes.
-
NY- American Youth Hostel
Architect Richard Morris Hunt built the hostel, said to be the world’s largest, in 1883 as a home for war widows. Today it is the world’s largest youth hostel with 672 beds, and nearly 100,000 square feet, the hostel is a city landmark. American Youth Hostel Association Residence for Respectable Aged Indigent Females 1881-1883
-
NY- Cherry Blossoms Are Set To Explode in Riverside Park
Riverside Park should hit its blooming peak this weekend. The flowering trees are all puffed up and ready to blow.