Manhattan’s 843-acre oasis is vast enough so that quite a bit of it is rarely trodden by the public…which passes some highlights by without giving them a second glance. How’s that for circumlocution. Enough circumlocution…let’s do some circumambulating in the park. The sun is out for once. LOMBARD LAMP This lamp was donated by Hamburg, West [...]
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Monthly Archives: June 2013
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SECRETS OF CENTRAL PARK
August 31, 2003Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: Central Park Manhattan
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BICENTENNIAL JOHNNY PUMPS. The remnants of the Spirit of ’76.
August 30, 2003
So where were you on July 4, 1976? I remember it pretty well. I had stayed up all night just so I’d be awake at 5AM to get ready to go down to Shore Road in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn so I could watch Op Sail. Sailing ships from all over the world were streaming into [...]
Categorized in: Signs Tagged with: Bronx Brooklyn fire hydrants Manhattan Staten Island
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EASTCHESTER, Bronx
August 24, 2003In The Prisoner, one of the Swingin’ Sixties’ most surreal, mind-bending TV series, Astoria’s own Patrick McGoohan played a government operative who is knocked out and spirited away to a mysterious location known only as The Village, where no one goes by name…just a number, and where a succession of headmasters by turns try to [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tagged with: Boston Road Bronx Eastchester
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BRIDGE IN THE BACK YARD: Construction of the Verrazano-Narrows
August 17, 2003When I was a kid, they built a bridge in my back yard. The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge was built in five years between 1959 and 1964. Prior to that, there was no way to reach Staten Island from any other part of NYC except by boat. Ironically, you could reach Staten Island from the mainland via 3 bridges, [...]
Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: Bay Ridge Bridges Brooklyn