Posted: March 3rd, 2025 | Filed under: Manhattan
A visit to Inwood Hill Park in September 2024:
The Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park:
St. Nicholas Park and Hamilton Grange:
We last visited during the moving of the house from Convent Avenue to the park. It went from this, April 2008:
To this a little over a month later in early June 2008:
To its spot in St. Nicholas Park:
An we finally visited it in April 2016:
United Palace in Washington Heights, first in 2004:
And then in 2022, when we saw a screening of Raiders of the Lost Ark:
Lin-Manuel Miranda interviewed Steven Spielberg about it as part of his Miranda Family Fund film series at United Palace:
This was the morning of Wednesday, May 27, 2020 on 125th Street:
(We made a separate November 26, 2004 page for 125th Street…)
Posted: August 4th, 2016 | Filed under: Manhattan
Mr. Kiddo is four now, and in the last few weeks or so he has been super interested in geology after obsessing over this NOVA series. So we went to the Natural History Museum the other day to go check out “the rocks” (read: Morgan Memorial Hall of Gems). Mr. Kiddo wanted to take the shitty camera that we inherited from some job like three jobs ago and which has been passed down to the boys to do with whatever they want. First, it has a really dirty lens:
Also, the battery was really old/dying, so eventually I just gave him the cell phone, which has actually a pretty good camera. He came up with this:
It’s fun/funny to do this — kind of like next generation big mapping — will likely do more, based on his interests . . .
Posted: March 30th, 2015 | Filed under: Manhattan
While browsing the inventory of personalized souvenir magnets at Grand Slam New York in Times Square we found this one, which I was surprised they still make, given the name’s current connotation:
