a museum in the city ⇔ a city in the museum
Greek Revival facade of Martin E. Thompson’s Branch Bank of the United States, at the American Wing Court. For a photo of the original building, please go to {NYC Design}.
July 2nd, 2017
Tag: photography
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
Defiant
”Fearless Girl” by Kristen Visbal.
After facing Wall Street’s ”Charging Bull” for about a year, it was decided that she be moved to her permanent spot, facing the New York Stock Exchange. Actually, the ”Charging Bull” was also supposed to have been moved with her, but I haven’t been in the area in a while to see what happened.
July 1st, 2017
summer of mischief
there were turtles and peacocks and ethereal angels,
a huge creepy face and menacing eagles,
smiling piglets and playful hounds,
proud looking stags and graceful felines –
all kinds of furry, feathered and mischievous creatures
dancing and stalking and flying –
sweeping across from wall to sacred wall
of one of the world’s largest cathedrals 
”Ursus”, Dan Ostermiller
‘‘Sun Face”, full scale production section by Greg Wyatt, Plaster cast
”River Mates”, Tim Cherry
”Circle of Friends”, Gary Lee Price
”Trouble”, Bob Guelich
”Eagle Rock”, Kent Ullberg
”Peacocks”, Dan Chen
”Stella”, André Harvey
”High Four” and ”Tickled”, Louise Peterson
”Two Peacocks”, Greg Wyatt
”Hope”, Elwira Jarecka, La Guardia Community College
”Hidden Behind”, Chitra Mamidela, Frank Sinatra School of the Arts
”Scottish Stag”, Wesley Wofford
”Top Gun”, Stefan Savides
”Wild Instinct”, Joshua Tobey
A Summer of Sculpture was an exhibition that featured Cathedral Artist in Residence Greg Wyatt’s Peace Fountain and Animals of Freedom; A Blessing of Animals, curated by the National Sculpture Society; and the Art Students League of New York’s Model to Monument Retrospective. It ran in the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, until September 2017.
June 29th, 2017
Do not go gentle into that good night
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas
June 25th, 2017
Spotted: The ‘real’ Daily Planet
We were on our way back from a lunch break when my co-worker, who had been in the City much longer than I, pulled me aside:
”Wait, have you seen this?” ”C’mon, you’ll love it!”
In, he dragged me, through a revolving door and before I knew it I was facing a giant revolving globe amidst a stunning art deco interior with just a touch of brass, as if Jules Verne had walked by and left his mark, and I could hardly contain my excitement. For the lobby we had walked into belongs to The Daily News Building, the iconic skyscraper built in 1929–1930 to become the headquarters of the New York Daily News paper, up until the mid 1990s. But it gets better: this, as I discovered by looking at the photographs on the wall, was the very building that served as the offices of the ”Daily Planet”, the newspaper where none other than Clark Kent and Lois Lane, played by Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder, worked as reporters in the 1978 Superman and its 1980 sequel.
I am still in awe!
Today, the New York Daily News has moved on, but the building is still home to its broadcast subsidiary, WPIX.
The News Building was designed by architects Raymond Hood and John Mead Howells, in the Art Deco style. Other Art Deco designs by the same architects include: the American Radiator Building, Rockefeller Center (Hood) and McGraw-Hill Building (Hood).
The News Building
42nd St., between 2nd & 3rd Avenues
June 22nd, 2017
Reminiscing
About last summer
The A train brought us to the beach in 1 hour and 15 minutes from 42nd St. Port Authority. I thought this must be the longest subway line in the City – and it is! It actually stretches all the way from 207th St. in Northern Manhattan to Far Rockaway, in Queens. A 2 hour and 15 minutes trip – on a subway train! Isn’t this amazing?
We won’t be doing it again, though. While the trip to the beach was fairly smooth for NYC Subway standards, on the way back we found ourselves tightly squeezed (read: trapped) among groups of hopelessly loud teenagers high on creative cocktails of soft drugs, alcohol and, well, life. That’s totally fine, of course, as long as we can keep at a safe distance and save our unacquainted ears from the hazardous effects of such extreme noise exposure levels.
Next time, we’ll take the ferry.
June 11th, 2017 – A Sunday afternoon in Rockaway Beach
exoskeletons
The Metamorphosis of a City
June 10th, 2017 around 9pm (but it could be any day and time)
Life on the *High* Line
The *good* life
Walking back home from the Whitney
June 10th, 2017
the unbearable lightness of being
June 10th, 2017
The Humble Fabulist 