This time, as we open the ancient New York City Street Necrology with its cracked, crumbling leather cover, a dogeared page with running, streaming ink and stains from lord knows what plops open, and there, revealed on the verso, is…Fourth Avenue, and there on the recto is Avenue A. Today, Fourth Avenue is the shortest [...]
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Monthly Archives: June 2013
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DE-CLASSIFIED 4-A
July 29, 2001Categorized in: Street Necrology Tagged with: Kips Bay Madison Square Manhattan Upper East Side
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BLUE HERON and WOLFE’S POND PARKS
July 20, 2001
At Forgotten NY, it’s been awhile since we settled into Thoreauvian mode and visited a part of town that in no way resembles the horn-honking, jolt-cola, cell-phone-yapping rest of town, got away from it all and, if not communed with nature, at least bowed our heads and let it believe it’s the true master. A [...]
Categorized in: You'd Never Believe You're in NYC Tagged with: Huguenot Beach Parks Staten Island
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THE QUEENSBORO BRIDGE LAMPS
July 10, 2001Paraphrasing the old Donovan hit…first there was a lamppost, then there was no lamppost, then there is… In 1999 we mourned the (premature) loss of this original Queensboro Bridge light stanchion, at the eastbound entrance at 2nd Avenue and 59th Street. Looks like the egg’s on our faces and the yolk’s on us, because the ever-unpredictable [...]
Categorized in: Street Lamps Tagged with: Manhattan Queensboro Bridge
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MANHATTAN BRIDGE WALKWAY
July 6, 2001Hart Crane never wrote poems about it, Sonny Rollins practiced sax on the Williamsburg, not the Manhattan, and Steve Brodie never jumped off of it. The Manhattan Bridge has always stood in the shadow of its storied brother to the south, the Brooklyn Bridge. Probably that’s partially because up until mid-2001, most New Yorkers crossed the Manhattan in a speeding car [...]
Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: Brooklyn Manhattan Manhattan Bridge
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BRIDGES OF CENTRAL PARK Part 1
July 2, 2001A few years ago, a Clint character, Robert Kincaid, wandered Madison County, Iowa for National Geographic, shooting rustic bridges for a feature article, and met lonely housewife Meryl Streep in the movie adapted from the Robert James Waller weepie The Bridges of Madison County. Acknowledging that your webmaster is more likely to encounter muggers than Meryl [...]
Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: Central Park Manhattan