The Bowery
Thursday, March 31st, 2005
Hotel on Allen Street
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| “The Lower East Side has put up with a lot of crappy gentrification, but this seriously scares us. work has begun on a new hotel Jason Pomeranc is building on Allen St. (between Houston and Stanton).” – City Rag Click here for a larger version of the photo. |
Cooper Union
Thursday, March 31st, 2005
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Viewed from the northwest.
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The capital of a decorative corinthian column on the west side of Cooper Union.
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| A combination of acanthus leaves and volutes decorates the top of this one also on the west side. I’m throwing terms around here garnered from the Facts on File Visual Dictionary, but I’m not positive in my identifications. Search for Cooper Union on the GammaBlaBlog. |
Bush is “Unreachable”
Thursday, March 31st, 2005 Seymour Hersh: Bush is “Unreachable”
“The President,” Hersh sighed. “Bush is as absolutely convinced he’s doing the right thing,” just as journalists are who think of themselves as white knights think they are doing the right thing. “Even if we have another thousand body bags, it won’t deter him.”
“This is where he is. He believes he won’t be measured by today, but in 5 or 10 years” in terms of the Mideast. With regard to Iraq, “he thinks it’s going well.” Iran, according to Hersh’s contacts, is “teed up.” “This is his mission,” he continued. “What does it mean?”
And then he delivered the most chilling comments of the evening. “Nothing I write” is likely to influence Bush, he said. “He is unreachable. I can’t reach him. He’s got his own world. This is really unusual and frankly, it scares the hell out of me.”
Met Life Tower
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The Met Life Tower from Union Square Park. |
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| Continuing my project of identifying all the tall buildings visible from the East Village. – Metropolitan Life Tower – “This tower of massive simplicity in Italian Renaissance style was completed in 1909 from plans by Le Brun and Sons. It’s four clock faces are 26 1/2 feet in diameter, with minute hands weighing 1/2 ton. Four chimes (the largest 7000 pounds) sound a measure by Handel on quarter hours)” – From the plaque erected in 1957 by the New York Community Trust.
Photo taken from Park Avenue on 24th Street. The skyway connects to the Met Life North Building, now Credit Suisse/First Boston |
According to Curbed The Met Life Tower is going Condo.
Block Drugs
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| Block Drugs established 1885. The sign doesn’t look quite that old. Second Avenue and East Sixth Street. Photo of the sign at night by Trevor Little |
La Mama
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| La MaMa Theater – Their doors first opened in 1961, their primary dedication has been to new works. East Fourth Street between Second Avenue and Bowery. |
