I posted on the Tappan Zee in April 2016 and June 2016. I am so jealous of my friend Al M., who gets to see the progress from a train…
From February 2017 until the end of the year, I sent 157 items to my Sunday Recommendations list. For recurring supporters, I recommended 31 more. The items in this post…
My annual survey of amazing goods and decorations in Manhattan. You can't escape the Greeks (and why would you want to?) The windows you shouldn't miss are at Louis Vuitton…
Central Park: The Early Years is now available in print and as a Kindle ebook from Amazon, in print from Barnes & Noble, and via Ingram with standard discounts for booksellers…
For earlier photos, see the Bridges tag in the Obsessions cloud at right. For a short time in the summer of 2017, the old and new Kosciuszko Bridges (1939 and…
To illustrate this post, I went yesterday to take photos of the reliefs in the lobby of the Chanin Building. From the full length of the lobby (a city block…
Three major bridge replacements have been in progress in the Tristate area during the past few years. The Goethals Bridge, dating to the 1920s, connects Elizabeth, New Jersey, with the…
The (relatively) new Staten Island Ferry Terminal is decorated with excerpts from Edna St. Vincent Millay's 1922 poem "Recuerdo" ("I remember" or "souvenir"). The views from the terminal and the…
Third in a series of three posts giving the full text of the “Report on Nomenclature of the Gates of the Park,” 1862. The first post in the series includes background…
Second in a series of several posts giving the full text of the “Report on Nomenclature of the Gates of the Park,” 1862. The first post in the series, which includes…