Roosevelt Island
our apartment view 17-J River esplanade. October 1993 Well we're movin' on up To the east side To a deluxe apartment in the sky Movin'...
Hoboken Station, NJ
NJ Transit, Hoboken Station, New Jersey. July 2010 People forget that back in the day, New York City had THREE major railway stations: ...
New York City: no evidence
My birthday, Magaw Place, Washington Heights July 24, 1989 [from FB posts: August 16, 2012] I just went through a marathon review of...
the first-timer's view
Exchange Place, Jersey City, NJ October 2008 [from FB post: July 12, 2010] Back from a great day in Jersey City with old college chum...
the Cloisters
Cloisters Museum. July 1989 Medieval Escapes In the Washington Heights years, we lived near Fort Tryon Park [see: Fort Tryon]. The...
Ellis Island: the ancestor
Ellis Island. 1989 Creative history Casper Glattfelder immigrated to the United States from Switzerland in 1733. My family attended a...
Staten Island Ferry
Staten Island Ferry. Late Summer 1988 Working Boy The iconic views of lower Manhattan taken from the Staten Island Ferry set to Carly...
Macy's Thanksgiving Parade
Macy's Parade, Broadway above Times Square. November 1988 Newcomers to NYC definitely have a punch list of things they want to...
NYU Kevorkian Center
Kevorkian Center, New York University. September 1988 How I got a job one day in New York City September 1988. In the months previous...
Fort Tryon Park
Spring flowers, Fort Tryon Park. 1990 Favorite Manhattan places (part 2) I have waxed lyrical about the Winter Garden {see: Winter...
Colonel Robert Magaw Place
Colonel Robert Magaw Place. Winter 1988 How we found an apartment in New York City in 1988 in one day Colonel Robert Magaw was a staunch...
Penn Station
Old Penn Station New York and Rome Through Pennsylvania Station one entered the city like a god. Perhaps it was really too much. One...
the Winter Garden
The Winter Garden, Lower Manhattan, October 2010. A question that has plagued me since I started a life of travel is "where was your...
