The M20 bus runs North all the way from Tribeca on Hudson St and then 8th Avenue to 59th and Columbus Circle, in the dark of night. Concurrently the M11 travels South on 9th Avenue. Inexplicably the chauffeur of the southbound M11 announces, somewhere around 34th St, that the last stop for the bus is …
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Tuesday
Tuesday. Did not rise with the dawn, but with a knock on the door by one of the neighbors. The electricity and cell are still out and the radio is bringing news of all sorts of disasters. Of course those in the group that were fanatic TV watchers were completely deprived of all visuals that …
All That and More
This has been an experience. In the Village all across lower Manhattab, there is no electric and no cell service. A time line of sorts. Monday. The first sign that things might be serious was the flower shop across the street closing at 1:10. They seldom succumb to any sort of early closing. While at …
BDtheH- con’t
Between 2 and 4 am was up and at ’em due to the wonderful quiet of the street, not even the garbage trucks as predicted; the true quiet before the storm. Presently it’s around noon time, the streets of the Village have foot traffic, a few cabs, but no buses and no trucks. And of …
Batten Down the Hatches, once again….
… someone out there will remember that the inception of the observations of the City began a year ago, when there were major preparations afoot for a storm. The City shut down, the neighborhood collected at the local bar and thankfully nothing happened. Now we are at it again. The Subway will close at 7 …
Apocalypse
that’s what he termed it as I passed him on the street, as he was speaking to a friend outside of Starbucks. He continued, ‘if Starbucks is closing at 3:45, it must be the end times.’ What apparently he had not taken into consideration is that all the MTA trains and buses were going to …
How To Recognize Fall
Not that one needs any help. This is the exact same spot on the sidewalk, a week apart.
No Words Needed
AirTrain JFK
The final-nailed-it-comment by the person who suggested I had no alternative to get to JFK the airport in rush hour but to take the Subway and the AirTrain was “if you somehow manage to screw that up, we have a far bigger problem’. So the journey began knowing it was a piece of cake. During …
Mid October
This is so wonderful. The weather is remaining mild and the street plantings have not been yet ‘frosted’.