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,…
Gramercy Park
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…