A blog about New York City, my books, and my cats. Mostly.
Visited Bloomingdales on my way back from the Weill Cornell Medicine Archives. It was a nostalgia stop, I used to shop there in the 1980s. Weirdly, it has hardly changed, except I couldn’t get on the subway from within the store, unless I forgot and went the wrong way. I planned to take more pictures but I was only inspired the the art deco elevator doors.
It’s time for the Choral Society of Grace Church Holiday Concert! This year we’re singing a wonderful selection of music spanning six centuries including Bach’s Cantata No. 34, my favorites Palestrina and Victoria, and many others along with our regular audience carol sing. If you buy tickets from me, you get a discount (they’re $25 vs $30). Just let me know how many tickets you would like and for which performance, the dates and times are below:
Friday, November 30, 8:00pm, Saturday, December 1, 3:00pm
10th Street and Broadway
This one was from the Haunted Subway in Union Square. This scary ass clown tried to high five me. I declined. Which cracked up the people around me. But come on. Look at him!!
Mummies. More haunting, and poignant, than scary.
One of my favorite decorations, which was part of a larger display which you’ll see below. But even then not the whole thing.
Why oh why must animals die?? I even feel for dead rats. When they run around on the subway tracks I always think, ‘please be careful, rats!’
This clown was on Charles Street last year, at the building which always has among the best decorations. I think someone different did them this year though.
This was another good one. Hands coming up of out a sidewalk basement grate.
Pumpkins! I didn’t see a lot of carved pumpkins this year, which was weird. Maybe people have gotten tired of having to pick up a rotten pumpkins later.
A more serious photographer taking a picture of the display which included those skeleton birds above (in the middle right of this shot). FYI: This is the Perry Street Sex and the City block.
Brought to us by The NYPD Transit Bureau, Neighborhood Policing, and the MTA. It was genuinely great. You can’t really tell just how great in my video because I’m screaming practically the whole time, and it was dark. I didn’t capture all the people jumping out at me, especially the Texas Chainsaw guy at the end, who was spectacular.
Go tomorrow, the last day, from 4 to 7pm! It’s at Union Square, and people are lining up at the 15th Street entrance, inside the subway though.
I explored my father’s barn in Vermont on Friday. There were lots and lots of spider webs, so I spent the whole time thinking, ‘Please don’t fall on my head spiders, please don’t fall on my head spiders.’ I loved the black and white chicken though. And the donkeys.
