Category: Upper Westside
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NY- Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade 2007 – 1
NY- Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade 2007
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NY- Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade 2007- 2
NY- Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade 2007
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NY- Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade 2007- 3
NY- Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade 2007
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NY- Giving Thanks for Fairway
I live a few blocks from my favorite store in the world, Fairway. It is not for the meek or the weak, but if it is the best food on earth you seek, then this store is for you. The aisles are crooked and packed with the foodstuff from all over the world; cheese, lunchmeat,…
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NY- Fall in Riverside Park- Autumn Colors
With the collapse of the sub-prime mortgage market spilling blood throughout the great banking halls of Wall Street, the only place that you don’t see red in the city is in the parks. It is a very yellow-orange Autumn this year.
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NY- West 96th Street Subway Station Construction
It is days like today that a car and driver would make life so much easier. Having lived through the reconstruction of the W72nd Street subway station I can now enjoy the fruits of the MTA’s labor. But it was a terrible year and a half of limited access, narrow stairways, and torn up platforms.…
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NY- Last But Not Least- 2007 NYC Marathon
There are a lot of sore muscles to tend to as the late finishers make there way home from this years ING New York City Marathon. Congratulations to all the runners.
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NY- Halloween Party on West 69th Street
Every year the neighborhood on West 69th Street from Broadway to Central Park West is transformed in to a big Halloween Trick or Treat Party. The neighbors decorate their domiciles, don full costume regalia, and some turn their living rooms into haunted houses for the little ghosts and goblins to traipse through. It is a…
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NY- The Chicken Soup Story- Gargoyles on West 110th
The builder of the Apartments at 527 West 110th street adorned the exterior with gargoyles depicting the Story Of Chicken Soup. If you look closely you can see one has the recipe, one the bowl, another the chicken, while a fourth enjoys the soup. It is pretty clever.
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NY- Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument- Riverside Park
In 1897 New York City held a design competition for a memorial to the soldiers and sailors from New York State killed in the Civil War. The brothers Charles and Arthur Stoughton won with their design, “Temple of Fame.†Paul E. M. DuBoy, who also planned the Ansonia Hotel, designed the sculptures in and around…
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NY- Firemen’s Memorial- Riverside Park
There is a memorial to firefighters who died on duty in Riverside Park that is home to one of the most moving September 11th remembrances. All of the names of the FDNY that were killed in the attack on the World Trade Center are read. It is a much more somber occasion without the media…
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NY- St. Joan of Arc Island- Riverside Park
There is a life sized statue of Saint Joan of Arc on her horse sculpted by Anna Vaughn Hyatt. It was dedicated in 1915 and was actually the first statue in New York City of a woman who was not a fictional character. I wonder who the preceding statues were of? It sits in a…