Read this quote the other day: resonated…The fact that there’s a highway to hell and only a staircase to heaven, says a lot about anticipated traffic numbers. [unattributed]
Author Archives: The Chronicler
Mezzrow & Smalls – Newsletter and Schedule
Jazz in the Village is alive and well and the only way to spend time on music. This letter is from Mezzrow & Smalls on 10th Street. Is it great or what!! Dear Friends: “The Dept. of Health and Mental Hygiene” – that’s the actual full title of the New York City branch that investigates …
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So Is Life
Or, Life is not fair. The snow has been falling since early afternoon, and now at 6 pm it is still snowing, only now the snow is wetter and the outside atmosphere dark and cold. I look out my window at the diminished traffic and see a bicyclist in the middle of the road, peddling …
Happy Chinese New Year
Wednesday, the eve of New Year’s Day, was in Chinatown and it was bustling! People buying special cakes and fish and fruits and flowers. The sun was bright, though the air was chill and the wind gusted now and then. But the sunshine added such a festive note to the goings-on. And it seemed indeed …
Pennsylvania Station at 31st Street
The link below is worth the time to paste it to your browser. It is tragic that such a beautiful building fell to greed and ignorance. It sat across from the main Post Office and mirrored the architecture of that building. The demolition was prior to the City having laws in place to prevent …
Is that Good or What!
Surprise
One day on the way home from the Apple store, I looked up and there on top of this building was this painted water tower. Delightful
Inventions Made in the City
Toilet paper in 1857 J C Gayetty – clean hemp rather than shreds of used newpaper Air propelled train – 1870 A E Beach- first subway Teddy Bear – 1902 – because Roosevelt would not shoot a bear, candy store owners Morris and Rose Michtom sewed and displayed a plush bear as “Teddy’s Bear in …
Cab Driver has What it Takes
Last evening, coming out of the venue, it was about 5 degrees F but supposedly felt like -15. I had only a couple of long blocks to walk to catch the subway… and was dressed for the weather. But when I got to the end of the first block, decided I had no history to …
Peyton Place on Perry Street
Not really… rather Sex and the City. Should have posted this years ago, because as I walk by this address, most certainly once a week there is always a gathering of ‘tourists’ there, each taking pictures of the other and generally hanging out. The folks that live there… have apparently done everything to minimize the …