It’s Sunday 9 am and I hail a cab. I step in and he says something after we exchange ‘good morning’. I don’t understand and ask him to repeat it. On three tries I am hearing something about ‘1st’. Concerned that he has mixed up my directions to go to 4th, I ask him to …
Author Archives: The Chronicler
All Time Best Advice
Learn which avenues/streets run North and which South. This was suggested to me by an astute young man, when I initially told him the story of coming out of the subway and having no idea where I was or how to get to where I wanted to go. Learn which streets run one way north, …
Bygone Glory
If one looks up in some of the subway stations, you can see the glory that used to be, but is now gone to ruin. Not only has it not been possible to keep it up, but new wiring has been placed in an unattractive but necessary way. There must have been a time when …
More Detritus
I have to think someone saw it. I was trolling my purse behind me, in a sturdy bag, slipped inside a large paper Bergdorf bag. When I arrived at my destination I reached inside the Bergdorf bag for one of my two bottles of water. Gone. Both gone. In the bottom right corner of the …
Weed
Part of me thought this was funny. I passed this city truck and noticed that the truck had some sort of extra charm on the front grill. So I went for a closer look. There is SpongeBob with a weed leaf in his hand. Found that pretty gutsy on a City vehicle. However, I am …
The A Train
There is nothing like the A train. It rides from 14th & 8th to 168th & Broadway in 22 minutes. That’s pretty astounding if one considers what the traffic above ground on those same streets is doing. Or not doing. It whisks one from one end of Manhattan to Brooklyn if that is your route. …
The Deal
Everyone surely agrees: if you don’t mind that there are only 3300 products from which to choose, and you don’t mind the no-frills display, there is no better place for grocery shopping than Trader Joes. Here in the City it is just as good as where you live. But look at these prices… 2 hothouse …
Looks Like Snow
The Spring nights continue. And when I looked up and saw the street light reflecting in the blossoms of the tree, I realized that it looked like snow on a winter’s night.
Dogs & Cats
Yesterday I was again in an apartment where two cats live. These apartment cats never get out to walk the streets. If the apartment has a balcony they may get out there, but most cats see the world, by window sill. A friend once made the following observation: the City is full of dogs, we …
Rooftops
For three months, on the corner of 8th avenue and 46th, I passed this display behind a cyclone fence: it was rooftops in varying heights, as if they were part of a small village. The rooftops gave the illusion that the houses were below the ground. Googling, I couldn’t find any information about them, and …