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From The Great Gatsby: Nick Carraway's Walk, A Slideshow and A Map
The New York zeitgeist this summer seems interested in revisiting F. Scott Fitzgerald's acclaimed masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, first published in April 1925. Director Baz Lurhmann has bought the rights to make a new film version, the radio program ...
Friday Night Lights, New York-Style, From the Village to the Hudson
In the opening chapter of Moby Dick, Herman Melville describes a common wanderlust among Manhattoes for the sea. Sometimes, however, for those of us raised among flatland and spread-out landscapes beyond New York, a walk to the river's edge comes not...
When the Cherry Blossoms Fall: A Walk through the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
A walk through a spring garden in New York during cherry blossom season at just the right time can be an exquisite experience, but sometimes personal schedules and the weather can throw off a well-timed visit. If you're slightly late, you're still lu...
Walker Evans, a Block on E. 61st Street in 1938, and a Visit in April of 2009
Walker Evans (1903-1975), a documentary photographer best known for his depictions of southern sharecroppers during the Great Depression, store signs and street signs in cities and towns, and the whole of American vernacular, spent a morning in the s...
Walking Into the Year of the Ox
Happy New Year, again! The year of the Ox is now upon us, and so with the first new moon of the year, a new administration and new beginnings, I took a walk to Mott and Canal Street in Chinatown this afternoon to enjoy the opening festivities for the...
The Strolling Year in Review 2008: In Pictures (Slideshow)
Many of these images accompany earlier blog posts from 2008, but I've selected a few previously unpublished ones to include in this year in review. Instead of trying to present the best images, I've select over a hundred representative images that wo...
At Bryant Park, A Lesson in Curling from the Canadians (A Slideshow)
The Canadians have been generous to New Yorkers this holiday, providing the amusement of Celsius, their temporary restaurant and bar in Bryant Park, with special Wednesday night events. Today, they brought us a lesson in curling, a sport that looks t...
New York Holiday Windows on Fifth Avenue: A Slideshow, and An Appreciation
Strolling the blocks along Fifth Avenue from 49th St. up to 59th Street provides almost everything anyone could want out of the holiday season. Here we find the creative talent of the department store windows - and this year, the smash hits are those...
An Autumn Walk in Prospect Park: A Slideshow and Map
A social engagement took me to the heart of Brooklyn today, and afterward, I decided to take in the autumn vistas of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux's masterpiece, Prospect Park. I walked from the southernmost section of the park near the lake...
Chasing the Demons Away in a Village Full of Ghosts - The Village Halloween Parade 2008
This past week seemed busier than usual, with a myriad of social events, job tasks (I have four wonderful part-time writing and editing gigs, counting this one), and household duties - hosting a houseguest, dinner out at Gemma, a night of drinks at ...
After the Closing Bell, A Protest March Against the Wall Street Bailout
While the gestures of protest were familiar - satirical costumes of billionaires, hand-made signs, numerous bells and horns to draw attention to the cause, some deep-seated anger about an administration and Congress bailout deal for Wall Street was a...
Strolling the Museum Mile (and a Half) and Contemplating the Current Financial Crisis (Slideshow)
Writing about Edith Wharton and New York in 1900 necessarily involves a discussion of wealth and social class, so strolling down Fifth Avenue from E. 104th Street to E. 70th (an area that encompasses Museum Mile, plus another 12 blocks to the Frick C...
Village Gothic: The Allure of Downtown at Night (A Slideshow)
For reasons unclear to me, I was compelled to take a stroll through the West Village at dusk yesterday evening. Inspired by the atmospheric colors of the setting of the sun, I wandered west on W. 4th, turned south on the Avenue of the Americas, and t...
