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 […]
Category Archives: Things to See
Washington Square Memorial Flagstaff
In Honor / Of / All Those From / This District / Who Gave Their / Lives In The / World War / Presented By The / Washington Square / […]
Halloween in Greenwich Village, 2017
“A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.” —Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) Homeowners bring the fright to Greenwich Village when they decorate their front steps, small front yards, […]
Tiffany’s Stained Glass “Autumn”
“God has given us our talents, not to copy the talents of others, but rather to use our brains and imagination in order to obtain the revelation of true beauty.” […]
Artifacts at the 9|11 Museum
“No day shall erase you from the memory of time.” —Virgil (70 B.C–19 B.C., ancient Roman poet) the quote the greets visitors to the 9|11 Museum September 11th 2001, known […]
“Atlas” at Rockefeller Center
“That great giant, Atlas, whose shoulders bear the circling sky.” —from “Metamorphoses,” A.D. 8, by Ovid Directly across Fifth Avenue from the seat of the archbishop of the Archdiocese of […]
A Bit of Old Spain in Greenwich Village
“Many Spanish immigrants disembarked in New York docks during the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries. The largest Spanish enclave in New York was referred to as Little Spain. This colony extended […]
The Gay Liberation Monument
“… to be loving and caring, and show the affection that is the hallmark of gay people … and it had to have equal representation of men and women.” —Requirements […]
Father Duffy in Times Square
“I am a very Irish, very Catholic, very American person, if anybody challenges my convictions. But normally and let alone, I am just plain human.” —from “Father Duffy’s Story,” the […]
The San Remo Apartments
“A residential skyscraper in classical garb, the San Remo epitomizes Roth’s ability to combine the traditional with the modern, an urbane amalgam of luxury and convenience, decorum and drama.” —praise […]
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