The Clock above the circular information kiosk in the center of the waiting area of Grand Central Terminal. This spot is often chosen as a designated meeting place. On any day you may encounter people with a louche air about them, trying not to look as if they feel out of place, as they check …
Monthly Archives: May 2012
Sort Of…
…just noticed. Yet, knew it all along. There are no telephone polls in Manhattan. How wonderful is that. Look around your American City. Can you say the same? Don’t think so.
Get It?
The building appendage, the copper colored oddly shaped piece, is actually only half as thick in reality, but the reflection of the building to which it is attached, doubles its size.
A Favorite Day
to be in the City, when most everyone has gone elsewhere, because it is an official holiday. How it manifests is the following: no one else on public transportation all day Saturday and Sunday [well almost no one]. In Trader Joe’s at noon and can count all of us shopping there on both hands and …
Subway Art – Continued
Doors
Every city has fine examples. But do we notice? These drew my attention this week.
The Bird is Back
Well, since the communique that the other bird was morte, I have to believe this bird is a new one. Wrapped up in plastic against the wind and the possible rain, there it hangs in the same cage, tweeting above the tomatoes and garlic scapes.
Hope Springs Eternal
4 for $1. Seed packets of forget-me-nots. Couldn’t resist and have now sown them in the four pots on my fire escape. 15-24 days germination. It’s wet and rainy now…expecting a full-blanketing ground cover.
A Street is just a Street
Exited the subway at Lexington, and although I knew the traffic flow was South, could not immediately get my bearings. And I needed a quick answer. So I took in the people around me on the crowded corner, waiting for the lights to change. The mother with child was my choice. I asked her “what …
The Whitney
Apparently shunned by its upscale neighbors due to their dislike of its architecture, it is nonetheless a bastion of modern American art. Currently the exhibit is the Whitney Biennial 2012. But the exterior, composed entirely of cement does resemble a building that might have applied for the job of fortress. It was progressive and innovative …