NYC’S Christmas Windows, 2018
“Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.” —Winston Churchill (1874–1965) Something spectacular happens in New York City’s department store windows at the end of the year. For […]
Category Archives: Ephemeral New York
An Ephemeral 9/11 Memorial
“It is not the policy of M.T.A. New York City Transit to erect memorials within the system. The posting of names on the walls at Union Square was not authorized […]
The NYBG Orchid Show, 2018
Orchid petal in you I see, a life worth living and with you I’ll be. Love don’t come In pearly light but you smell and look deeper than my sight. […]
New York’s Easter Parade, 2018
On the avenue, Fifth Avenue, the photographers will snap us And you’ll find that you’re in the rotogravure Oh, I could write a sonnet about your Easter bonnet And of […]
The Marine Grill Murals
“I was impressed by the sight of brawny workmen swinging out on girders and riveting the lacy skeletons of the earliest skyscrapers on lower Manhattan.” —Frederick Dana Marsh (1872–1961) Artist […]
NYC’s Christmas Windows, 2017
“Without promotion, something terrible happens, nothing!” —Phineas Taylor (P.T.) Barnum (1810–1891) Something does happen in the department store windows of New York City at year’s end. For decades the major […]
New York’s Easter Parade, 2017
In your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it, You’ll be the grandest lady in the Easter parade. I’ll be all in clover and when they look you over, […]
