This evening, at dusk, the MTA bus was working its way south on 9th Avenue. As it approached a bus stop, I saw a few feet away from the stop on the corner was a policeman. As the bus came to a stop and I took a second glance, I saw the policeman had a …
Monthly Archives: March 2012
Doors in the Sidewalk
Tonight it struck me. I have not mentioned the doors in the sidewalk. The restaurant is above ground, but the kitchen and certainly the supplies are in the basement. And often as not, this basement is accessible only via these doors in the sidewalk. You walk over them daily. They look like mid-west hurricane cellar …
St Pat’s Night
It’s another good excuse for excessive drinking, this Saturday night of March: St Pat’s Day. So very funny how many New York Italians are Irish for the night! Luckily for the pub-crawlers, it’s another warm balmy night like late spring. Having had a long day of auditions, I am home before the night ends and …
Asleep
…not at the wheel, but almost. As I wait for the subway cars to come to a stop so I can board, I see one of the middle cars which has a small windowed compartment in it, pass by. A trains-person [would have said trainsman but they are also female] sits in there and at …
Fire the Rodent
Yesterday was 72 degrees. And it is mid-March. Started the morning by donning a winter coat ended the afternoon with leaving it at the cleaners. [Which I discovered for the price of cleaning will store it from Now to October. With minute closet space, that is a deal; wonder if I will see it again?] …
Even More The Bus
Surprisingly busses are clean; until this past week when I noticed a bit of brown, crusty spotting on a few of the front blue seats. Unlike the subway, the seats are covered in a type of fabric. [the seats in the subway are all molded plastic]. I notice that others and myself avoid sitting on …
Not!
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Not! Went into Bloomingdale’s on 59 & Lexington. Had not been in there for years. The present layout is so unlike an old-concept department store – as say Macy’s, I was stunned. It is like a mini-mall housing different boutiques. Gone is the general jewelry …
Overheard
Two women passed me on the sidewalk, going in the opposite direction. As they passed, I heard the older one say to the younger one ‘ I want to feel like I deserve Spring’. And then they were out of ear shot. It was 70 degree weather on this early March day; not exactly City …
Blonde & Black
The first night I saw a blonde haired young woman standing near the ticket vending machines at the subway entrance/exit, it dimly registered in my mind that she was waiting for a friend to exit. Her excessive eye makeup and her black and white outfit caught my eye. The image stayed with me. I doubted …
More The Bus
And the bus drivers: I have heard Denzel Washington, James Earl Jones, Oprah announcing the next stops. And I have seen the doubles for Denzel, Whitney, and Roseanne Barr driving the busses. These persons are courteous, sane, competent and now and then especially humorous. One recent evening, I was dressed upper-west-side to attend a YCA …