Gramercy Park

A nickname the late radio legend Don Imus gave himself many years ago because he was born with three testicles instead of the usual complement was “Tres Huevos.” I may…

NOT long ago, I spotted this billboard outside the School of Visual Arts on East 23rd Street and 2nd Avenue, honoring Milton Glaser, perhaps the best known graphic designer of…

THE Abbey Tavern, at 3rd Avenue and East 26th Street near Gramercy Park, is one of many Irish pubs in the general area, but it is named for a much,…

I’VE talked about Frances Xavier Cabrini before, on the Boulevard that bears her name way uptown in Washington Heights. Well, if George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, as well as a…

Before the Great Infection, I spent a number of Saturdays (and some Sundays too) crisscrossing Manhattan via its numbered streets. Over the years, I’ve done this quite a few times…

I’m not a good nighttime photographer — I don’t have the equipment or expertise, unlike, say, my friend Mitch Waxman at the Newtown Pentacle. However, a recent opportunity presented itself…

As stated earlier, I was walking around the Gramercy Park area with friends looking for a diner when, wandering down 20th Street, my eye fell on a couple of items.…

We were prowling around on a Sunday noon around lunchtime looking for a diner that didn’t have a line out the door (apparently Joe Junior, which I heard had premium burgers,…

Here’s a bit of trivia. The Amazing Mets once traded Royce Ring and Heath Bell in the same deal. I have been working in the Madison Square area for a…

I was circumnavigating Gramercy Park (a small parcel of a private park between East 20th and 21st Streets and 3rd Avenue and Park Avenue South), preparing for a possible tour…

There’s a storefront at 190 3rd Avenue in the Gramercy Park area between East 17th and 18th Streets that appears to have been unchanged since the 1890s, and, for once, this…

Open House New York is a once-a-year extravaganza, a public celebration of architecture and design in New York City. Approximately one hundred different locales, many of which would never ordinarily…