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A Walk in the East 90s: At Home with the Marx Brothers and "The Brownstone People"
At the turn of the twentieth century, after moving several times, the Marx family finally settled into the fourth floor of a tenement at 179 E. 93rd St. One of the brothers, Adolph, later described the area as "a small Jewish neighborhood squeezed in...
Drawing Sessions: The Walk-In Ateliers of New York
An accomplished figurative artist friend came to visit this week, and it was quickly decided that we should spend a night drawing from life. While she has taught life drawing for many years and shown her work in solo exhibits, I'm am occasional sketc...
A Stroll Through the East 60s
The walk on the Upper East Side this past Saturday, the one in which I retraced Walker Evans and his photographs of a block on E. 61st in 1938, took me on a longer stroll. Thanks to the picture-perfect weather, I also walked through the small but lov...
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...
JFK: The Presidential Candidate from the Bronx, and Other NYC Sites Associated with the Kennedy Family
"Ladies and gentlemen: I said up the street that I was a former resident of the Bronx. Nobody believes that but it is true. I went to school in the Bronx. Now, Riverdale is part of the Bronx, and I lived there for 5 or 6 years. [Laughter and applause...
George Tooker and Ralph Albert Blakelock at The National Academy Museum
Visitors to Museum Mile this fall should stop in the National Academy Museum at Fifth and 89th Street to see the remarkable George Tooker retrospective. While there, also find the set of stairs at the back of the exhibition galleries to see the land...
Visiting New York on a Monday
Monday is the busiest time, hit-wise, for this website, Walking Off the Big Apple. While some of this traffic may be explained by the number of workers returning to their offices and enjoying WOTBA on their employer's big display monitors, it's mainl...
Exploring the East 70s between Park Avenue and 3rd Avenue
Many people explore the Upper East Side by walking through the east 70s closest to the park, near Fifth and Madison, but try venturing through the area east of Park Avenue. Lexington Avenue, along with 3rd Avenue, features a greater mix of stores and...
Mapping Holly Golightly: Walking Off Breakfast at Tiffany's
The world of Holly Golightly, as depicted in Truman Capote's 1958 novella Breakfast at Tiffany's, is set largely on the Upper East Side in the East 70s. In the novella, Capote does not specify an exact address for the brownstone he shares with Holly,...
The Golightly Variations: Introduction to a Walk
Most know Truman Capote's 1958 novella Breakfast at Tiffany's from the 1961 movie directed by Blake Edwards, adapted by writer George Axelrod, and starring George Peppard as "Fred" and the unforgettable Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly. The movie's ...
