Looking Back to May 2010- What Blog was like then

Sunday, May 16, 2010

nycgo.com, Norman Thomas HS building

Banners in Midtown announce nycgo.com--which turns out to be a pretty interesting website on NYC places and activities-- oriented towards tourists but useful for locals as well.

Sunday finds this office building plaza empty....Monday afternoon, it will be chaos as the students stampede out of Norman Thomas High School, which is in the building.

Have a friend whose brother went there...wonder if he knows yet who Norman Thomas was ( or cares).

Find the office building itself sort of an eyesore...some buildings and sculpture grow on you, others do the opposite...this building I find more and more oppressive with each passing year.

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Balmy Spring Evening, Pedicab, Shutterbugs

Balmy spring evening brings people outside to enjoy the weather, sightsee and hang out..

First, my neighbors Craig and John sit over at St. Vartan Park boundary and hang out, probably discussing activities involving the Tenants' Association of our building....Craig is the Chair of it.

Know pedicabs are proliferating in Midtown but this is first time I have been able to get a shot of one...

Finally,--I could get a shot of this every day-- people photographing the Empire State Building from nearby ( men often crouching down). Every one you know who visits NYC probably has a shot of the Empire State...which is why I try to avoid having it on this blog!

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Fifth Avenue, New Sunlight, & Guinness is Good 4U

Another grab bag of Midtown snapshots:

Bald mannequins with sunglasses on Fifth Avenue,

Apartments that had not seen daylight in scores of years do again after building next door is set back from street, and Paddy Reilly's bar poster extols the merits of Guinness...

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Steam Heat, "French Nails" and the UU's

"Dig We Must" used to be Con Ed's catchphrase ( now they use the silly "On It!" with an upturned thumb....yeah, they are probably " on it" like BP is on the Gulf of Mexico crisis.

Always wondered where this "French Cleaners" cliche came from in NYC--notice this place has "French Nails" too-- yes, another Nail Salon!

The local Unitarian Church is celebrating Love, which sounds sort of wishy washy ( what is this, "All You Need is Love?" "Agape" or something?)--which is why I only occasionally attend services there. The UU's are certainly well intentioned, though....