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Kitty and Mr. Met are looking forward to Sunday's season opener against the Cardinals. Ever the traditionalist, Mr. Met is a little perturbed that the Reds don't play the first game of the season anymore, but he relishes the chance of showing St. Louis who is going to be the World Series champs in 2007.
This stretch of sand under the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge needs to be cleaned up and turned into a beach. Sure, it's only a couple hundred feet long, but it's a prime downtown location! I'll even suggest a catchy name: Beach Under Brooklyn Bridge, or BUBB.
Casa Loma, 116th between Adam Clayton Powell and Frederick Douglass
The Fitzgerald, 117th between St. Nicholas and Frederick Douglass
Morningside Park Condos, Morningside Ave just below 116th
Three buildings nearing completion along 116th Street.
Casa Loma is being marketed by Warburg Realty. It's a gut-renovated pre-war building. This used to be the most disgusting spot on 116th St. The building was empty, the super of several nearby buildings used to dump their garbage in front of this building, where it would sit for days stinking and attracting rats. The building is looking good now. It has been renovated into ten one-bedroo and five two-bedroom apartments. All with 11' ceilings. It'll be interesting to see what retail goes into the ground floor.
The Fitzgerald, featured here last summer as Ed's Auto Body and Fender, has been converted from an auto storage facility into 47 one- and two-bedroom apartments. The website claims "no expense has been spared to maintain the buildings original character." So if you ever wanted to live in an apartment that reminds you of a parking garage the Fitzgerald is the place for you.
Morningside Park Condominiums also made a brief appearance here last year. This is a new building right across the street from Morningside Park. Prices ranged from $1.0 to $1.6 million. All eight units are in contract. Kitchen appliances were being delivered this morning!
What is it with the maps on these building websites? Probably half the neighborhood amenities listed on both the Fitzgerald and Morningside Park Condo sites are incorrectly located. There is clearly not a library in the middle of Marcus Garvey Park and the Jewish Theological Seminary is not located at the West End.
Speaking of the Jewish Theological Seminary and 116th Street (this is what we blog professionals call a clever segue), I was walking home this evening along 116th Street, right around the corner from the Morningside Park Condo, when an Orthodox guy jumps out of a van, runs up to me and asks "Are you Jewish?"
I said I wasn't. He looked dejected, so I asked what he was looking for, thinking I could direct him somewhere, and he replied "Just looking for Jews in the neighborhood. Do you know where I can find any?" He got into the van before I could answer him, which was probably good as I really didn't have an answer.
Is this squirrel molting from a red winter coat into a summer gray? Or could this be a juvenile molting into adult fur? O could the food it finds in Union Square not be the healthiest?
Right after I took these pictures my camera died. The display went all white and the lens wouldn't retract when I turned the camera off (nor extend when I tried to turn the camera on). This is the same problem I had a few months ago. I thought I had narrowed that problem down to a bad battery.
That was Friday. I didn't take pictures on Saturday. On Sunday and Monday the camera worked perfectly as I took nearly a hundred photos without a problem.
According to Flickr's statistics, I was only one of 88 users to upload a photo taken by the S70 yesterday and the popularity of the camera has been dropping all year.
Unrelated: Look at what I adopted during the recent WFMU marathon! The caption is incorrect. The Big Well is my favorite place to visit whenever I'm in south-central Kansas. I've not yet eaten while in Greensburg.
Brickwork has begun on the Kalahari!
Plus their website has been updated. The construction blog with one entry has disappeared. In its place is a form for sales information. Luxury hybrid 2-4 bedroom condo apartments from the mid-$600,000s. What is a hybrid home?
W 21st between 8th and 9th Aves.
Written on the back is: KV "I miss you all the time".
Happy first day of spring!
For your amusement:
Every fire escape in SoHo (via Gothamist), and Shorpy, the 100-year old photoblog, includes the dapper rat catcher and the rat collector, 1908.
Was it me or was this last snowstorm turn ugly in a hurry? By Saturday morning the snow had turned into this unappealing gray slush.
Don't let your eyes linger and you won't notice that the middle picture is way out of focus.
This picture has nothing to do with the story.
Yesterday was laundry day because our laundry room is being closed for an upgrade next week. I gathered my warm, dry, clean clothes and headed to the elevator. There's a guy on the elevator talking loudly into his cellphone. He is going to a floor above mine. He charges off ahead of me when the elevator stops at my floor. I try to say something but he is walking with a purpose and still talking loudly on the phone. He turns down my hallway, my apartment is half-way down a long hallway, and I hear him temporarily lower his voice and say,
"I got off the elevator on the wrong floor."
Yet he continues walking down the hall!
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