It’s difficult to be in different places while one’s life is taking place in all of them. It was a lovely summer of diverse travel plans with important-to-me-visits to people that mean much to me. Coming back to the City, felt like coming home. But getting in the groove to report on what is going …
Author Archives: The Chronicler
While I Was Away…
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Well Done
Where to Sit, When Riding Crosstown
If riding on a double-length cross-town bus, walking to the back to sit is preferable. Most of these busses stop in the middle of the block due to the length. So a 7th Avenue stop is between 6th and 7th. If 7th Avenue corner is where you are heading, then you are closer to there …
A City Vegetable Garden
This restaurant in the West Village has turned the sidewalk into a vegetable garden. It is to the south of their terrace and front door. On each pot the white sign asks passersby to ‘watch’ but ‘not touch’. As I was approaching to take the pictures, I saw a handy man twist off a tomato …
Not the East River…
or the Hudson for that matter. Take the chronicler out of the City and she forgets all about it! But one can see why!
Faith in Fellow Man
I watched with great interest as this mid-60’s aged woman boarded the bus. She boarded with others she knew, as she was in conversation with them. She took a seat. Then she stood up and moved to another seat. These are her belongings left on the second seat of her choosing. She then walked …
Momentous Moment
Last evening turned off the AC, opened a window and put a lazily turning fan in front of it. Ahhhh.
More Chocolate Creations
All these images are completely made of chocolate at my favorite chocolate store. There is apparently a chocolate concoction for every celebration you can imagine.
How HOT?
Makes Dante’s Inferno play like a walk in the park. Half as many umbrellas are up as if it were raining. 8 out of 10 females are wearing shorts. How do the businessmen do it in those suits and shirts and ties around the neck? They walk the same streets as the rest of us. …