Small Animals

I thought Sardi’s was a tourist trap. And I thought I could not afford it. My way of going to see Broadway shows has always been to eat a slice of pizza beforehand, because after paying for a ticket that is all that seems prudent. I happened to be meeting a friend in Times Square, […]

Merchant’s House

I turned the hottest corner in the world and almost walked past the 1832 home of only one family, ever: the Tredwells. I would like to put in, here, that it is the oldest something or other, but that isn’t really the point of the place. It is very old for a surviving building in […]

Shelter

Completed in 1895, the 23rd Regiment Armory is a Romanesque red brick armory. Armories were originally important places to train and store weapons for America’s locally-based military units before the Civil War. During industrialization, National Guard troops were used to quash labor protests. After World War I, bronze tributes to soldiers from that conflict were added. […]

Unisphere, Perisphere

I didn’t go to Queens to see the Unisphere. As I approached it, it opened and arched and bent different ways, and I stepped up and over the edge of what would hold in water, if it was summer, and walked under it, and there was a kite caught in one edge, near the Americas, and […]