There’s somewhere around 200 works of outdoor sculpture in Manhattan. Works in human form come in two basic types: real historical (e.g. George Washington), and allegorical, representing some sort of ideal (e.g. blindfolded justice). I’m not sure where Alice in Wonderland or Peter Pan figure in, but we’ll put them aside for now. Of allegorical figures, the […]
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Nov
Nov
My first post is a simple interesting one. I had just read Alone Together: A History of New York’s Early Apartments and had the book with me when I skated over to the site of the old Broadway Central Hotel (the west side of Broadway just north of the Bond Street intersection). It was built in 1871 […]
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May
May
No commentary. An afternoon walk around the World Trade Center and the things I encountered, May 2, 2010.