Upper East Side/Upper West Side Updates

Posted: March 10th, 2025 | Filed under: Manhattan

96th Street Second Avenue Subway Station:

96th Street Station (Second Avenue Subway), Upper East Side, Manhattan, July 29, 2022

Asphalt Green:

Asphalt Green, Upper East Side, Manhattan, March 11, 2025

East River Roundabout, March 11, 2025:

East River Roundabout, Upper East Side, Manhattan, March 11, 2025

East River Roundabout, Upper East Side, Manhattan, March 11, 2025

New-York Historical Society:

Oval Office, New-York Historical Society, Upper West Side, Manhattan, March 30, 2023

Gallery of Tiffany Lamps, New-York Historical Society, Upper West Side, Manhattan, March 30, 2023

Gallery of Tiffany Lamps, New-York Historical Society, Upper West Side, Manhattan, March 30, 2023

American Museum of Natural History on September 17, 2020:

Akeley Hall of African Mammals, American Museum of Natural History, Upper West Side, Manhattan, September 17, 2020

Hall of Biodiversity, American Museum of Natural History, Upper West Side, Manhattan, September 17, 2020

Milstein Hall of Ocean Life, American Museum of Natural History, Upper West Side, Manhattan, September 17, 2020

Hall of Asian Mammals, American Museum of Natural History, Upper West Side, Manhattan, September 17, 2020

Hall of Saurischian Dinosaurs, American Museum of Natural History, Upper West Side, Manhattan, September 17, 2020

North American Mammals, American Museum of Natural History, Upper West Side, Manhattan, September 17, 2020

Gilder Center:

Griffin Exploration Atrium, Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation, American Museum of Natural History, Upper West Side, Manhattan, July 26, 2023

Griffin Exploration Atrium, Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation, American Museum of Natural History, Upper West Side, Manhattan, July 26, 2023

Griffin Exploration Atrium, Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation, American Museum of Natural History, Upper West Side, Manhattan, July 26, 2023

Upper Manhattan Updates

Posted: March 3rd, 2025 | Filed under: Manhattan

A visit to Inwood Hill Park in September 2024:

Overlook Meadow, Inwood Hill Park, Inwood, Upper Manhattan, September 8, 2024

Glacial Pothole, Inwood Hill Park, Inwood, Upper Manhattan, September 8, 2024

Henry Hudson Bridge From Inwood Hill Park, Inwood, Upper Manhattan, September 8, 2024

The Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park:

The Cloisters, Fort Tryon Park, Washington Heights, Upper Manhattan, July 17, 2021

The Cloisters, Fort Tryon Park, Washington Heights, Upper Manhattan, July 17, 2021

The Cloisters, Fort Tryon Park, Washington Heights, Upper Manhattan, July 17, 2021

The Cloisters, Fort Tryon Park, Washington Heights, Upper Manhattan, July 17, 2021

The Cloisters, Fort Tryon Park, Washington Heights, Upper Manhattan, July 17, 2021

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:

Hamilton Grange, 287 Convent Avenue, Hamilton Heights, Manhattan, April 29, 2008

Hamilton Grange, 287 Convent Avenue, Hamilton Heights, Manhattan, April 29, 2008

To this a little over a month later in early June 2008:

Hamilton Grange, Convent Avenue Between 141st and 142nd Streets, Hamilton Heights, Manhattan, June 3, 2008

Hamilton Grange, Convent Avenue Between 141st and 142nd Streets, Hamilton Heights, Manhattan, June 3, 2008

Hamilton Grange, Convent Avenue Between 141st and 142nd Streets, Hamilton Heights, Manhattan, June 3, 2008

To its spot in St. Nicholas Park:

Future Home of Hamilton Grange, St. Nicholas Park, Upper Manhattan, June 3, 2008

Future Home of Hamilton Grange, St. Nicholas Park, Upper Manhattan, June 3, 2008

An we finally visited it in April 2016:

Hamilton Grange, St. Nicholas Park, Hamilton Heights, Upper Manhattan, April 24, 2016

Hamilton Grange, St. Nicholas Park, Hamilton Heights, Upper Manhattan, April 24, 2016

Dining Room, Hamilton Grange, St. Nicholas Park, Hamilton Heights, Upper Manhattan, April 24, 2016

United Palace in Washington Heights, first in 2004:

United Church, 4140 Broadway, Washington Heights, Upper Manhattan, November 5, 2004

United Church, 4140 Broadway, Washington Heights, Upper Manhattan, November 5, 2004

And then in 2022, when we saw a screening of Raiders of the Lost Ark:

United Palace, 4140 Broadway, Washington Heights, Upper Manhattan, June 26, 2022

United Palace, 4140 Broadway, Washington Heights, Upper Manhattan, June 26, 2022

United Palace, 4140 Broadway, Washington Heights, Upper Manhattan, June 26, 2022

United Palace, 4140 Broadway, Washington Heights, Upper Manhattan, June 26, 2022

Lin-Manuel Miranda interviewed Steven Spielberg about it as part of his Miranda Family Fund film series at United Palace:

Lin-Manuel Miranda and Steven Spielberg, United Palace, 4140 Broadway, Washington Heights, Upper Manhattan, June 26, 2022

This was the morning of Wednesday, May 27, 2020 on 125th Street:

125th Street at Madison Avenue, Harlem, Manhattan, May 27, 2020, 8:54 a.m.

125th Street Between Malcolm X Boulevard and Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Boulevard, Harlem, Manhattan, May 27, 2020, 8:58 a.m.

(We made a separate November 26, 2004 page for 125th Street…)

Morgan Memorial Hall of Gems, August 2, 2016

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:

Morgan Memorial Hall of Gems, American Museum of Natural History, Upper West Side, Manhattan, August 2, 2016

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:

Morgan Memorial Hall of Gems, American Museum of Natural History, Upper West Side, Manhattan, August 2, 2016

Morgan Memorial Hall of Gems, American Museum of Natural History, Upper West Side, Manhattan, August 2, 2016

Morgan Memorial Hall of Gems, American Museum of Natural History, Upper West Side, Manhattan, August 2, 2016

Morgan Memorial Hall of Gems, American Museum of Natural History, Upper West Side, Manhattan, August 2, 2016

Morgan Memorial Hall of Gems, American Museum of Natural History, Upper West Side, Manhattan, August 2, 2016

It’s fun/funny to do this — kind of like next generation big mapping — will likely do more, based on his interests . . .