Category: New York
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5 Museums in 8 Days, Part 2
#2: The Frick Collection After visiting the Met, I was a little museumed-out and needed a bit of a break. We spent Sunday and Monday visiting a few of Manhattan’s better-known areas: Times Square, Union Square, Columbus Circle, Wall Street and the Financial District, Battery Park, and Ground Zero. On Tuesday, we headed off to…
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5 Museums in 8 Days, Part 1
Well, I think I have recovered sufficiently from the jetlag to write coherently, and Jeremy sent me a few photos to post, so I suppose it is time to write about my first visit to New York City. I had eight days to visit and two to travel, and it all went by almost before…
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Labor Day in the UWS
I had a hard time getting out of bed today. Perhaps, knowing that it was a holiday, my mind decided to convince my body that it was okay to rest. Once I did finally get going, however, I attempted to be productive. After some time researching ideas for a possible NYAA diploma project, I decided…
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Homeless in NYC… no more!
Thank you to everyone who wished me luck and for your prayers. I have (finally) found a home for the school year. I will be staying at the International House. Built by John D. Rockefeller Jr. and the Cleveland H. Dodge family in the mid-1920’s, it was designed to foster interaction between foreign and american…
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Back in Brooklyn, er… the Upper West Side
After a comparably uneventful flight back to JFK, I find myself once more in the Capitol of the World. First order of business is to find a new place to live, which involves scouring the digital For-Rent pages and sending off many, many emails. To which I seem to receive only a few replies, and…
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American Museum of Natural History
Sunday was spent with Tara and Loren at the local, er, excuse me, The American Museum of Natural History, a truly monumental five-floor building with ties to Teddy Rosevelt. We spent over five hours at the museum, but much like at the Met, that is only enough time to see a minority of what is…
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The Cloisters
As beautiful as Central Park is, the most beautiful place I’ve seen in NYC has to be The Cloisters. A branch of the Metropolitan Museum, it is a building constructed from 12th – 15th century European castles. It is really an amazing thing to see. A medieval European castle in Manhattan. And people say Americans…
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Central Park
Now that classes have ended I have a little time to bounce around the city. I met up with Tara on Thursday and we did just that. We started the day out in the West Village and saw the Ashes and Snow show. It wasn’t really much to write home about, but feel free to…
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Jeremy: 6, Cockroaches: 1
One always hears tales of the enormous rats and cockroaches that infest the city of New York. I’ve seen the subway rats, and perchance they are not as large as the famed sewer rats, but it was nothing to write home about. So too it was with the cockroaches. Over the course of the last…
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Settling Back In
I made it back to Brooklyn on Friday. True to form, it continues to be more difficult flying to NYC than returning from there. I had a layover in Detroit. Upon arrival, I learned from the reader board that my flight to LGA had been canceled. After inquiring with an airline rep, I learned that…
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Liberty
Whatever you may think about New York City, there are few icons as recongnizable as this one… Here’s a semi-artsy picture, that I’ve taken to calling ‘Sunsets on Liberty’. Sorry about the pun… – Jeremy
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OSC in NYC
I don’t know if most of you would consider this to be a famous person sighting, but Orson Scott Card, author of the excellent book Ender’s Game, among many many others, had a book signing in town today. Julie forced me to brave the wintery mix of snow and freezing rain, not to mention the…