Celebrating New York’s Dutch Roots
“In testimony of ancient and unbroken friendship this flagpole is presented to the city of New York by the Dutch people 1926” —an inscription on the Netherland Monument Although in 1664 […]
Unusual Views of Miss Liberty
“The Lady with the Lamp, the Statue of Liberty, stands in New York Harbour. Her back is squarely turned on the USA. It’s no wonder, considering what she would have […]
Keith Haring’s Art in New York
“Obviously, the only place to go was New York. It was the only place where I would find the intensity I needed and wanted. I wanted intensity for my art […]
Eternal Light Flagstaff
“God would never be cruel enough to create a cyclone as terrible as that Argonne battle. Only man would ever think of doing an awful thing like that.” —from “The […]
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. […]
Shakespeare in the Park
“Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have immortal longings in me.” —“Antony and Cleopatra:” Act V, Scene II Did the author of those lines, William Shakespeare (1564–1616), […]
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 […]
Stained Glass Windows at Old St. Pat’s
“Should one Catholic come to harm, or should one Catholic business be molested, we shall turn this city into a second Moscow.” —from an 1835 letter Bishop John Hughes wrote […]
International Women’s Day 2018
“The very condition of woman is so subject to hazard, so complex, and so grievous, that to place her at one moment is but to displace her at the next.” […]
Lafayette and Washington Shaking Hands
“Resolved, Subject to the approval of the Art Commission, as provided in section 637 of the Charter of Greater New York, that the triangular plot east of Morningside Park and […]
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