N.Y.C. V- Art, Graffiti, Signs -December 25th, 2023 - January 8th, 2024

NO PARKING

...& East 57th Street.

Looking down Broadway to TImes Sq.

West side of Central Park.

Near Times Sq.

Flip phone??

Christian Dior & Saks light show.

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James Beard Food Hall.

Pier 57 James Beard Food Hall.

TO LET

Garden sculpture at Irving Pl. & Park Ave.

"As mayor, he presided over the city during the 1975 New York City fiscal crisis, when the city was almost forced to declare bankruptcy...A 1993 survey of historians, political scientists and urban experts ...ranked Beame as the 14th-worst American big-city mayor to serve between 1820 and 1993.”

Time Warner Center.

Time Warner Center overlooking Columbus Circle.

“Completed in 1905…considered to be the world's first proper traffic circle.”

Bloomingdale's.

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At the turn of the last century, they sure were fanciful station numbers.

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Union Sq.

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Across the street from the Plaza Hotel, Paris opened in 1948 & showed “art films and foreign films in their original languages.” Now owned by NETFLIX & “Manhattan's sole-surviving single-screen cinema.”

Last time we were here was in 2003 to see “Winged Migration.”

Lobby of the Paris where we saw “Maestro” because our scheduled performance of “Prayer for the French Republic” had been cancelled.

One of our favorite "go to" eating spots in Manhattan.

NY JUMBO BAGELS

East River Greenway.

East River Greenway @ E. 34th St. pier.

With DDS plates on my Chevy Vega…

… in 1973-74 I parked here when teaching at NYU College of Dentistry; the tan building straight ahead. NYU Medical Center & Bellevue Hospital are to the right.

Notice the MD plates are on a Mercedes…

…& the DDS plates on a Chevy VOLT.

Toidy toid & toid. 2nd Avenue Deli is up this block on toidy toid.

Chrysler Bldg. Lobby. "The ceiling contains a 110-by-67-foot (34 by 20 m) mural, Transport and Human Endeavor, designed by Edward Trumbull. The mural's theme is 'energy and man's application of it to the solution of his problems', and it pays homage to the Golden Age of Aviation and the Machine Age."

Rockefeller Center.

On our way to finally see Prayer For the French Republic at the Manhattan Theatre Club. We’d be back here the next week to see Harmony at the Barrymore.

I can’t believe Lion King is still on Broadway.

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NYC Transit Museum Nostalgia Ride on the R 1/9 cars.

"CITIZENSHIP DAY"

NYC Transit Museum Nostalgia Ride on the R 1/9 cars.

A modern subway car ad.

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Confused yet?

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Lower East Side. "Beastie Boys Sq."

Lower East Side.

Flea market on the Lower East Side.

Lower East Side.

“Caffe Reggio is proud to be the first caffe in the United States to serve Cappuccino…Our splendid espresso machine, made in 1902, was the first of its kind.”

“…you will notice a beautiful array of artwork, some of which dates back to the Italian Renaissance period.”