I lifted the following word-for-word from another website: Madparknews.com. They stated it so well, felt no need to reinvent the wheel. Please click on the llinks below, or copy it into your browser box at the top of the screen. to see the pictures. The pictures are superb. The great surprise is to find something …
Author Archives: The Chronicler
Delighted
Yes, I was. It rare when I’m delighted to be an irritant, but in this case I was. Boarded the full bus, and took a seat beside a too loudly speaking-on-her-cell phone woman. Because she was large and busy speaking on her phone, therefore not paying attention, when I settled in, I brushed against her …
A Similar Story
It was another time, another place, but the discussion with Cologne brought it to mind. Washington DC: was walking down the street, when a man approached. He was wiry, not tall and agile on his feet. He started talking to me about his desperate situation. How he had no money to get back to his …
Cologne
…was his name. He approached me as I came to the corner outside my apartment. In a somewhat gentle way, with a rather long sentence he asked for money. I was on a mission, but I felt the need to stop. I asked him why he was there, and how this was working out for …
Message Sent
Brought heaviest winter coat to the cleaners for Storage. Message to the weather gods is that this winter season is over; time to move on to spring. So far so good. 11 pm last night temperature outside was 46 degrees.
Too Enthusiastic?
Perhaps I waxed too brightly about the cold the other day. Today it snowed. I will not comment again this winter/spring! Didn’t the first day of Spring come already?
Wow
It’s been either a tough spring or a long winter, or both. Yesterday evening, returning home in the blustery, cold, bone-chilling wind, I was want to complain. Until, back inside, I realized how quiet it was outside. Late March and the tables are still empty because it is too cold to sit out side and …
More Facts about Grand Central Terminal
In the twenties and thirties, there were two kinds of porters: red caps and green caps. The first helped with luggage, the latter delivered messages. There are no caps at the GCT now, only at Penn Station. The constellations that one sees on the ceiling in the main room are not how they appear in …
Seat on the Long-haul Bus
If one buys a ticket for an airplane trip, one is assigned a seat number. You don’t own it, just yours to borrow for the trip. A bus ticket seat is determined by how early you stand in line in order to board the bus; some folks stand in line early because they really like …
The High Line
Various times I have tried to get great pictures that tell the story of this elevated park-walk. All have Failed. Here is official information, official photos and tribute to great use of decaying space. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Line_(New_York_City)