Author Archives: deborahshapiro
Bryant Park
One huge improvement in city life during the Giuliani and Bloomberg years was the cleanup and restoration of Bryant Park, formerly an open air drug bazaar. Now there’s an open air reading room stocked with books from the New York … Continue reading
Stuck in Traffic on the Manhattan Bridge
The devil finds mischief for idle hands…in the form of an iPhone.
New York Botanical Garden
A visit to the New York Botanical Garden turned out to be different from the routine with the installation of four monumental sculptures by Philip Haas called The Four Seasons. The artist reimagined the series of Renaissance portraits by Giuseppe … Continue reading
Gus the Polar Bear
Rest in peace, old guy.
Times Square
Saturday in Times Square, post Bloomberg.
Union Square Greenmarket
The Greenmarkets are as close as most New Yorkers get to the source of their fruits and vegetables. Who knew that garlic has two-foot stalks, that tomatoes could be so beautiful, or that onion roots look like sea anemones?
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