When I walk the HighLine in Manhattan, I’m always happy to see this billboard and what it is showing. I’ve never seen one this witty.
The Best Billboard in Manhattan
Category: NYC
Weekly Photo Challenge: Carefree
Every year in early December in Manhattan we have an event called “SantaCon” when everyone dresses up in Santa or Christmas-like costumes and walks around New York City while drinking and making new friends. When I Googled “SantaCon,” I found out it takes place in 37 countries.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Curves
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum (2010).
Weekly Photo Challenge: Love
- Man with His Cat at the Blessing of the Animals Ceremony at Christ Church in Manhattan 2011
My Day Today in Central Park
Today was the first day of sunshine all week, and the streets of Manhattan were very crowded as well as in Central Park. So much traffic that I had a hard time getting home because the busses couldn’t get through all the traffic. I finally got about the last seat on an express bus home to Staten Island.
Going through downtown Manhattan on the bus, I saw news trucks from all the major channels; ABC, NBC, CNN; parked on Broadway and wondered what was going on. Once home, on the news, I heard that it was all about Strauss-Kahn who finally found an apartment in downtown on Broadway. I don’t understand why all the newspeople are bothering him so much only to get another photo. We all know what he looks like already. If the media hound him too much, he will start to attract sympathy. I think that if Strauss-Kahn manages to get out of this mess, the money that it is costing him is a lot of punishment. However, I doubt if he will get out of it. This seems to me another episode of that modern phenomenon “The Good Wife.”
I also visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art today, which was the most crowded I’ve ever seen it. That was mainly because of the exhibit, aptly titled “Savage Beauty,” of Alexander McQueen’s dresses. The line for this exhibit was so long that I didn’t want to wait in it, but I plan on going back next week when it isn’t so crowded.
I managed to glance in the exhibit room while walking by and saw a couple of his dresses. Totally gorgeous. I can’t wait to see the exhibit. If McQueen had known that he was about to get an exhibit at the Met, he probably wouldn’t have killed himself, on the other hand, if he hadn’t killed himself, he probably wouldn’t have gotten this exhibit at the Met. I’ve never witnessed before such instant fame so soon after someone just died. Before he killed himself, he was just another haute designer for the wealthy.
[I wrote another post (with slideshow) on the Alexander McQueen exhibit at the Met, after I saw it, that you might be interested in reading]
Visited the roof garden at the Met that just opened for the season on May 1. It’s usually open only from May 1 until around November, depending on the autumn weather. This year they are showing steel sculptures by Anthony Caro on the roof. The sculptures are nice, but nothing terribly exciting like they had last summer–a house made from Bamboo.
Visit my new post on the Anthony Caro exhibit on the roof garden at the Met.
Riding the Staten Island Ferry
I made this video from my trip into the city on Wednesday.
Phillies Then and Now
I read on this wonderful web site called Walking off the big Apple, which has everything you would ever want to know about New York and then some, the address of what is thought to be the location in Greenwich Village of where the restaurant once stood that Edward Hopper put into his painting “Night Hawks.” It’s at Greenwich St. and 7th Avenue in the West Village area. Below is a photo I took today of what the corner looks like now–a fenced-in empty lot.
Night Hawks was painted in 1942 when Edward Hopper was living in the Village and painted scenes he saw around him. Experts have identified this corner by examining the stores in the background of the painting and examining the stores in the background of this corner. Also Hopper lived in this neighborhood.
Old Woman on a Bicycle 