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 […]
Category Archives: Ephemeral New York
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, […]
NYC’s Christmas Windows, 2016
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas Ev’rywhere you go; Take a look in the five-and-ten, glistening once again With candy canes and silver lanes aglow. —from “It’s Beginning […]
Halloween in Greenwich Village, 2016
“Witch and ghost make merry On this last of dear October’s days.” —Anonymous Greenwich Village gets decked-out for All Hallows Eve. Our Greenwich Village Walking Tour will show you the […]
New Yorkers Laboring
“Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.” —Samuel Gompers (1850–1924, American labor leader) Today is Labor Day. Walk About New York […]
We Are Orlando Mural
“I saw men and men, women and women, standing side-by-side reading the names on the mural. That whole experience was the thing I’m most grateful for.” —Wayne P. Rada, founder […]
“Psycho” on the Roof of The Met
“Revenge is sweet and not fattening.” —Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) Titled Transitional Object (PsychoBarn) this year’s site-specific art installation on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof […]
Greek Sculpture at The Met
“I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion.” —Alexander the Great (356 B.C.–323 B.C.) he and his […]
Getting Creative with Post-It Notes
“Put it on a piece of paper and then we can stick it to anything.” —Art Fry, his advice to Spencer Silver and Geoff Nicholson, his colleagues at 3M who […]
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