When the ball drops in Times Square on Saturday evening, New Year’s Eve, you will see lots of people. Pause to consider the organization that takes place behind the scene before the event. On Tuesday on some sidewalks, the crowd-control-cement-blocks, the size of ponies, were already in place. There are many tourists here for the …
Monthly Archives: December 2011
The Bird
Remember this? The Bird Boarding the Bus?
It All Looks the Same
It’s a lovely upscale nail salon staffed by women from China. There are no younger women, the technicians are all of a certain age. They have given themselves Western sounding names… Grace, Marie, Mary, Susie, and a Jully. Each woman wears a name tag and the letters on the tags are in a square font. …
Insane.
No other word for it. And to be part of the insanity is even more insane. Had a small visiting guest, who had convinced his father that going to the FAO Swartz toy store on 5th and 58th to spend his accumulated Christmas money was a terrific family outing. Only the small and the old …
A Jewish Christmas
That’s what they call it in New York, when you go the movies on Christmas Day and have Chinese food afterwards. The shops and the most of the restaurants were closed [the 25th]. The streets devoid of traffic; surprisingly so. No one was on the buses either. It was a mostly shut down city, except …
Merry
Christmas to all! And to all a good night!
‘Twas
indeed, the night before Christmas… the day before and the City has been quite void of traffic, a sort of tranquility has descended as if calmed by the end in sight. Don’t know if the subway rats are not stirring…
Ask
So I did. I asked a subway rider who sleeps, how he knows when to awake. Oops, he said, if I am really heavily asleep, then I wake up 2 or 3 stops past mine, get off and take the train back. If I am lightly sleeping, I awake at my own stop, just as …
In the Spirit
There is indeed something special about the Spirit of the Season in the City. It is the unexpected waft of the odor of pine trees; the newly formed aisles of trees to be walked through on what is normally a cement sidewalk through-way. It is the brightly colored packages carried out of stores and shops …
The Chinatown bird
So here it is on a winter’s day; up against the lights and covered in plastic… for those of you who think there are ulterior motives to his/her existence. Chirping away, as usual, above the vegetables and the fruits.