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| Looks like major construction is about to happen between the Merchant’s House Museum, 29 East Fourth Street, and Samuel Tredwell Skidmore House, 37 East Fourth Street. Via NYS |
Update Monday, January 31, 2005: Revenge of the Machines on East 4th Photos of some very strange machines in that empty lot. Reported in Curbed
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| This fat pigeon didn’t seem to have the energy to fly away. I was able to get a couple feet from it. Union Square Park. |
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| Bale of wire for recycling. Second Street near First Avenue. |
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| Washington’s Back – “Had Washington kept the presidency for life, as many wanted him to do, later presidents might have done the same and become, for all intents and purposes, monarchs. By ceding office after two terms, however, Washington helped ensure a regular and orderly transfer of executive power. His two-term limit set a custom that would stand for a century and a half, until Franklin Roosevelt was elected to a third term in 1940 and a fourth term in 1944.”- historywise.com |
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| Lincoln’s back. “With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan–to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.” The end of Lincoln’s second inaugural address. |
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| Lafayette’s back. “In 1777, Lafayette purchased a ship, and with a crew of adventurers set sail for America to fight in the revolution against the British. Lafayette joined the ranks as a major general and was assigned to the staff of George Washington.” – americanrevolution.com – Union Square Park |
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| NYC, as far as I’ve observed is observing Ignoreguration. I went out at Noon looking in the usual downtown protest spots, Washington Sq., Union Sq., Tompkins Park for some silent vigils or whatever. I found none. I would have bought some black crepe to hand out, but I am observing Not One Damn Dime day. “Ignoreguration” via Mark Maron, Morning Sedition. City Rag is closed for the occasion but does have some creative protest links. |
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| Avenue B approaching Seventh Street, Christadora House in the background.
Christodora was founded in 1897 as a settlement house on Manhattan’s Lower East Side to provide health care, educational and job training programs and other social services to poor immigrant families. Christodora House also served as a home for art and drama clubs. Christodora’s Poet’s Guild included Robert Frost, Vachel Lindsay, and Edwin Arlington Robinson, and it inspired Ira Gershwin. -columbia.edu |
