to be in the City, when most everyone has gone elsewhere, because it is an official holiday. How it manifests is the following: no one else on public transportation all day Saturday and Sunday [well almost no one]. In Trader Joe’s at noon and can count all of us shopping there on both hands and …
Author Archives: The Chronicler
Subway Art – Continued
Doors
Every city has fine examples. But do we notice? These drew my attention this week.
The Bird is Back
Well, since the communique that the other bird was morte, I have to believe this bird is a new one. Wrapped up in plastic against the wind and the possible rain, there it hangs in the same cage, tweeting above the tomatoes and garlic scapes.
Hope Springs Eternal
4 for $1. Seed packets of forget-me-nots. Couldn’t resist and have now sown them in the four pots on my fire escape. 15-24 days germination. It’s wet and rainy now…expecting a full-blanketing ground cover.
A Street is just a Street
Exited the subway at Lexington, and although I knew the traffic flow was South, could not immediately get my bearings. And I needed a quick answer. So I took in the people around me on the crowded corner, waiting for the lights to change. The mother with child was my choice. I asked her “what …
The Whitney
Apparently shunned by its upscale neighbors due to their dislike of its architecture, it is nonetheless a bastion of modern American art. Currently the exhibit is the Whitney Biennial 2012. But the exterior, composed entirely of cement does resemble a building that might have applied for the job of fortress. It was progressive and innovative …
Pushy
She is small, but not frail. Gray, frizzy hair. Could be 68-78. No telling. And she is pushing, shoving, wheeling, manipulating in front of her a walker. She has no sooner boarded the bus than she yells out,’ May I have that seat please’. She takes a moment to put her fare card in the …
Inviting!
Today the Market in Union Square. A bright, Friday with the weekend ahead, the sun shinning and since it is around noon, a light smattering of people. And what you can purchase: bread, wine, cider, cut flowers, plants. vegetables, fruit, mushrooms, fish meat, turkey, pork from the flying pig farm, baked goods, the list is …
It Can Happen To Anyone
It did make me chuckle. You see the Limo, you see the driver beside the limo, you notice the driver looking into the interior through the window, and then you watch him with a coat hanger, trying to unlock the door.