Lower Manhattan
January 12th, 2020
Tag: lower manhattan
Little fish, big fish, swimming in the water
Come back here, man, gimme my daughter
🐟watch🐟
SeaGlass Carousel at Battery Park.
Inspired by the ocean’s marine life and The Battery’s history as the original home of the New York Aquarium, which opened in 1896 (later relocated to Coney Island).
January 12th, 2020
Hope
In Lower Manhattan
Every year, the Bell of Hope rings at 0846 local time to mark the moment when the first of two planes hit the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 
St. Paul’s Chapel. Built in 1766, it is the oldest surviving place of worship in New York City. Still standing even though the twin World Trade Center towers (and the world as we knew it) collapsed across from it in the 9/11 attacks, earning it the loving title ”the chapel that stood”. 
The New York Evening Post Building, an Art Nouveau gem, and a rarity in New York City
January 5th, 2020
A Blessed Ghost
Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing,
Beloved from pole to pole!
To Mary Queen the praise be given!
She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven,
That slid into my soul.
The silly buckets on the deck,
That had so long remained,
I dreamt that they were filled with dew;
And when I awoke, it rained.
My lips were wet, my throat was cold,
My garments all were dank;
Sure I had drunken in my dreams,
And still my body drank.
I moved, and could not feel my limbs:
I was so light—almost
I thought that I had died in sleep,
And was a blessed ghost.
– Excerpt from The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner,
a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Listen to the reading by Deborah Warner
September 16th, 2018 – Aboard the Schooner Pioneer
Hoist your Sail when the Wind is Fair
All aboard for a two-hour sunset sail on New York Harbor – on 1885 Schooner Pioneer!
About Schooner Pioneer
In the days before paved roads, small coastal schooners such as Pioneer were the delivery trucks of their era, carrying various cargoes between coastal communities: lumber and stone from the islands of Maine, brick on the Hudson River, and oyster shell on the Chesapeake Bay. Almost all American cargo sloops and schooners were wood, but because she was built in what was then this country’s center of iron shipbuilding, Pioneer had wrought-iron hull. She was the first of only two cargo sloops built of iron in this country, and is the only iron-hulled American merchant sailing vessel still in existence.
By 1930, when new owners moved her from the Delaware River to Massachusetts, she had been fitted with an engine, and was no longer using sails. In 1966 she was substantially rebuilt and turned into a sailing vessel once again. Today she plies the waters of NY Harbor carrying adults and children instead of cargo in her current role as a piece of “living history.”
Today Pioneer is an award winning sail training vessel teaching volunteers of all kinds, traditional maritime skills, and the art of tall ship sailing. [source: South Street Sea Seaport Museum]
Watching Lady Liberty light up, the sky catching fire as the golden hour gave way to the blue and the blue turned to midnight; those two hours on the deck of an 1885 schooner were the most tranquil and peaceful we’d experienced in the City thus far.
New York City Harbor
September 16th, 2018
Freeman Alley
Off the Bowery at the level of Rivington Street in Lower Manhattan, there is an alley covered in graffiti. It leads to a restaurant, very popular among the young (and young at heart) New York crowd, despite (or because of) its location. I wonder how the alley will look like today, more than a year later. 
January 14th, 2018
Miami on my mind
Prismatic neon lights, palm trees and beach slides in a shop window on Broadway, in November. What else can a wandering mind do, other than dream of Miami?
Soon, soon…
November 12th, 2017
💙💙💙
But I will generously spare you of yet another Valentine’s post and heart-shaped pink boxes and roses and such. Here is, instead, a message from a random guy, on a random wall, somewhere in Lower Manhattan, back in 2017.
I hope it helped him find joy – notice a piece missing?
Peace x Love,
Lia 💙
“Metrograph”
“An instrument attached to a locomotive for recording its speed and the number and duration of its stops” – a phrase that here means the innermost limits of pure fun.
THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE (1974)
September 9th, 2017
Staten Island Ferry
For those of us who live and work in Manhattan and don’t have to commute, a boat trip to Staten Island is one of those short cruises one usually reserves for visiting family or friends: it is free, runs on a 24/7 basis, offers dreamy vistas of Manhattan, New York harbour and the Statue of Liberty – and is totally fun! 
The ferry departs from Whitehall Terminal at the southernmost tip of Manhattan and the crossing to Staten Island takes about 25 minutes. If you do not plan to explore Staten Island itself, you can just line up for the next ferry back and continue on foot along the Battery Park Esplanade for even more gorgeous views.
July 1st, 2017
The Humble Fabulist 