Archive for city
enjoying…
a single day in our nation’s capitol…
from the top : National Gallery Flemish Galleries, National Gallery Dome, War Memorial Capitol Lawn, Washington Monument, Leo Villareal, National Gallery Flemish Galleries, Union Station, Alexander Calder Shadows, Lincoln Memorial, Capitol Building Sunset
Photos : RWM
finally…
getting my copy of ‘New York : Line by Line’
(I could look at it every day and still freak out!)
by the brilliant German ‘Robinson’ (aka Werner Kruse)
More here.
Images : Photos of Robinson’s Pages by RWM (click tosee them big!)
traveling…
a little this weekend, and once again, was subjected to the incredible architectural devestation that happened to poor Penn Station in 1963-1968.
I know its an old story in New York, but no matter how many times I experience the result I still feel some shock, and actual sadness despite never having seen the original. I also feel that familiar feeling I get when I’m on a frontage road, near a strip mall, or in a parking garage…that modernity has seriously betrayed us.
They actually tore it down.
Now I know at the moment its all in fashion to be nostalgic. The Edison bulbs (aka hipster beacons) hanging above every bar, cocktails like ‘The Moscow Mule’ becoming common place on drink lists, any number of little things (that I happen to love) to remind us of the cozy dimly-lit, much less antiseptic time in this city. However, nothing does my head in like imagining coming home from Philadelphia to the original Pennsylvania Station.
“Any city gets what it admires, will pay for and ultimately, deserves. Even when we had Penn Station, we couldn’t afford to keep it clean. We want and deserve tin-can architecture in a tinhorn culture. And we will probably be judged not by the monuments we build, but those we have destroyed.”
“Farewell to Penn Station,” New York Times editorial, October 30, 1963
Love the 2nd episode in Season 3 of Mad Men when Sterling Cooper takes on the subject.
Images : Unknown
strolling…
around sunny South Street Seaport taking in the intoxicating New Amsterdam [Thanksgiving] Market…
and picking up dinner treasures from the always beautiful and perfect (and newly named!) Lani’s Farm (recently Yuno’s Farm)
Photos : RWM
starting…
last Thursday with an early morning visit to the little slice of heaven that lives in Chelsea.
Why can’t the whole city be made of the flower district?
Photos : RWM
