A Night With the Cyclones
Few things beat a Brooklyn Cyclones game on a fair June night, as far as untarnished New York summer joys go. I look forward to my first game of the season every year.
30 June 2011
Few things beat a Brooklyn Cyclones game on a fair June night, as far as untarnished New York summer joys go. I look forward to my first game of the season every year.
29 June 2011
Says Who?
You mean the Bloomberg administration and Thor Equities put back all they've destroyed over the past five years?
Something for the Men, and the Ladies
I'm trying to guess if the salty figures who frequent Eastside Billiards in Yorkville (I see them grabbing smokes on the second-floor balcony) are psyched or embarrassed that Victoria's Secret is moving in downstairs.
28 June 2011
The Weird-Ass, Transformers-Like Machinery That's Making The Second Avenue Subway
Who needs to see "Transformers 3" when you can go up to upper Second Avenue and look at the mind-blowing mechanisms that are busy digging New York's latest hole in the ground. I have no mental grip as to the hows and whats of creating a subway tunnel. So when I took these photos, I had no conception what I was looking at. All I know is they set up sent my eyes a-spinning. Two-story-high scaffolding! Super cranes in big, bigger and biggest sizes! Big white containers that contains who knows what! And—my favorite—two-story blue metal containers that act as offices for all the subway muckamucks. (Last picture below.) Holy crap. Subway-making is serious business.
The Bronx Has Prettier Subway Stops Than You Do
Upon a recent trip to the top of the 1 line in the Bronx, I was impressed by this elevated station at 231st Street and Broadway. The station was built in 1907 as part of the old IRT, and was renovated in 2003. But there was some quality material to rehabilitate there.
Firehouse For Lease
I sort of blame "Ghostbusters" for giving everyone the idea that living in a firehouse would be kinda cool. I can't blame people for thinking it. I bet it is cool to live in a firehouse. I put it but behind living in a former synagogue on the coolness scale. There are a few richies in my neighborhood alone who have bought up engine houses as the City closes them down, and now dwell inside in eccentric luxury.
Here's one on W. 30th that's for lease. It was erected (by the New York Board of Fire Underwriters!) in 1894.
A Good Sign: El Quijote
A survivor in The Chelsea Hotel. Look the hand-painted illustration of the paella.
Nice awning, too. How long until the bone-headed owned of the landmark hotel kick the restaurant out in favor of a Ponderosa?
27 June 2011
The Sidney Rubell Building
The Chelsea real estate firm of Sidney Rubell is situated in a remarkably handsome building on W. 23rd Street. The bay windows on 348 W 23rd Street go all the way up to the third floor and each floor is separated by a carved wood panel that runs nearly the length of the building.
THE UNION STREET PROJECT: 142 Union Street
This is the eleventh post of "The Union Street Project," in which I unearth the history of every building along the once bustling Brooklyn commercial strips of Union Street between Hicks and Van Brunt, and Columbia Street between Sackett and Carroll.
I always thought 142 Union Street was a fairly recent addition to the block. The squat, two-story, red-brick, faux castle just didn't have the look of antiquity about it. Perhaps it was an unfortunate creation of the 1970s.
Not so. The below 1920s photo shows the structure had the same silly, grandiose look back then. In fact, the facade is remarkably untouched!
26 June 2011
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