by Bryan | Dec 10, 2010 | Neighborhood Scenes, Odds and Ends, Out and About
File under: Things I probably won’t see/do in person, given they’re outside my little downtown bubble, and also given the fact that my next two December Saturdays, per long-standing Smith-Waterman family tradition, will be spent in the back room of DBA for...
by Bryan | Nov 12, 2010 | Events, Exhibitions, Odds and Ends, Out and About
A century-old faded ad for Bloomie’s, Lexington btwn 115th and 116th [What about the Plastic Animals] Have you explored the South Bronx Cultural Corridor? [Bronx Arts] Inauguraci
by Bryan | Oct 8, 2010 | Neighborhood Scenes, Out and About
Some stuff happening in the New York blogosphere outside the local East Village and contiguous neighborhoods downtown: “A wonderful castle” on Staten Island, “built by beer and with German whimsy.” SPOILER ALERT: It later became a convent and...
by Bryan | Jun 25, 2010 | Odds and Ends, Out and About
The Bronx is up and the Battery’s down, though this regular Friday feature routinely ignores anything happening below 14th Street in Manhattan, since that’s where I spend 99% of my life. In fact, other than my morning runs across two bridges, I’m...
by Cyrus | Jun 8, 2010 | Architecture, Lost New York, Writing New York
Author David Freeland visited our Faculty Resource Seminar today and offered us a glimpse of the city as it appears to him: as a palimpsest with layers of meaning waiting to be rediscovered if one knows where to look and what to look for. He took us through sites that...
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