Which if truth be told, is my favorite moment. This moment of truth is when I see the Sweet Young Thing {SWT} sitting anywhere within notice of me on any form of transport, switch out her sexy high heels for her flatter than pancakes Tom’s shoes!! I know in my heart and intellect those sexy …
Author Archives: The Chronicler
The Shoes
Visiting the Madison Avenue, Park Avenue [The Upper East Side or UES] rarified air on a Saturday is a study in what makes the man or woman. Observing what separates the ones that live there, from the ones just spending their money there, it comes down to the shoes. The complete absence of any type …
Super Moon
May 7th. There it is hanging over TriBeCa. It is also known as Perigee. Did you all notice?
Mothers’ Day
The ‘mini-drygoods/dimestore’ across the street that daily opens at 10:30, has opened at 7 am today. It’s all about the flowers. The storefront and 5 feet of sidewalk resembles a picture post card of an Amsterdam flowerstall. Available are lovely bouquets for all reluctants that feel guilt at the last moment… They’re doing a land …
Exhausting
He was on my heels boarding the bus. He made some comment about my putting in my fare card and it sounded to me like he was being sarcastic, because the card took an extra second to register. ‘Take your time, take your time, we are in no hurry now are are. We have all …
Heart – Ya Gotta Have….
They had been apart. He was so excited that she was returning, he met her with his heart in his hand, well, on a ribbon in his hand. While walking around SoHo together, they impulsively decided to give it away. And so they hung it on a tough piece of concrete. At first it …
The Right Answer
As you stand in Union Square, 14th Street and Park Avenue, and look up, you see a huge piece of art on a building across the street to the south. Sometimes there is steam coming out of the center of this piece of art. To the left of this art display there is a row …
BAM
and then it hits you! What a great advert. BAM is the acronym for Brooklyn Academy of Music which is much more than that: theatre, movies, events, quite a roaster of choices. Saw Jonathan Pryce in The Caretaker written by Harold Pinter. But it is their ad that always draws me in first. BAM, and …
The Rose
There is lay. Alone. At 12:30 on a weekday, on a bench in the 4th Street Subway station. Red, wrapped in cellophane and abandoned. For whom was it intended? Did that person not mean enough so that one could just walk off without it? When did he/she remember that they had forgotten something? Could they …
Cinco de Mayo
There was no posting for 5 May, as all of the City was celebrating. The Spanish speaking population is large enough that everyone now joins in, including yours truly. And you know how fluent my Espanol is!