A few nights ago, I was on my bike at the corner of Houston and Sullivan waiting for the light to change. A mangy guy on the sidewalk was gesticulating in my direction, clearly trying to get my attention. While my normal inclination is to ignore such requests, I was feeling magnanimous: it was a […]
While I was on jury duty in July the Times published an article mentioning Wooly’s, a new shaved ice stand on Municipal Plaza, between McKim, Mead & White’s Municipal Building and Cass Gilbert’s U.S. (now Thurgood Marshall) Courthouse. . . . . . . . . . . In pre-Civic Center days, this was a […]
These are my opening remarks from the symposium I organized for Rosemarie Bletter, my Ph.D. advisor. We are gathered here today to honor Professor Rosemarie Haag Bletter on the occasion of her retirement from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. And it is my happy task, by way of introduction, to […]
Walking through the park this morning I chanced upon the work of an urban romantic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Just north of the Pool on a meandering path below the Great Hill, a rogue installationist wove a single […]
It may seem odd to still be writing about Maine nearly four months after my return from Vactionland, but the Pine Tree State has a way of staying with you. While this is due mostly to the essential quality of the place (see Genius Loci in Acadia), the quantity of made in Maine products that […]