Tag Archives: UES

Morning View – At Fairway Market

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Morning View – NYC Parking

I noticed that the parking garage in my building posted a new rate card over the weekend. No idea what qualifies as an “exotic car.”

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Afternoon View – 30 Days Later

Just over a month ago the beloved and family-owned Spanish/Mexican dive on my block, where I dropped in twice a week for their steam tables full of bisteca and shredded pork, closed abruptly and was being demolished within 24 hours. This week: Dunkin’ Donuts, which now has three or four outlets within a five minute walk of my building. Sigh.

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Morning View – First Avenue

I’m over this tepid winter. Spring me, already.

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Photo Of The Day – Subway Cavern

Somehow I was not invited to last night’s press tour of the subway construction that has rattled my apartment with twice-daily explosions for the last year or so. Gothamist reports: The focus of work is now completing the massive new stations at 72nd Street, 86th Street, and 96th Street. Blasting is about 75% complete at the 72nd Street cavern, which …

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Afternoon View – People Chute

Due to subway construction, pedestrians walk this chute down the middle of Second Avenue. All my favorite little shops (on the left) are long gone by now. Only five more years!

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Morning View – Borscht, Matzo, Gefilte

Food Emporium is stocked wall-to-wall and ready for Pesach.

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Life On The Upper East Side

The woman in front of me swished her ankle-length mink dramatically as she denounced the management’s idiocy for only staffing two cashiers. How dare he delay his very important customers! And then she asked me for a pen. So she could write a check for her cigarettes. The cashier had never gotten a personal check. She had to call for …

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Morning View – Subway Squeeze

Construction for the new subway line has long had much of Second Avenue squeezed down to scarcely more than a single lane.

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Morning View – Second & East 72

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Cuomo Might Veto New York Redistricting

NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he may veto the ridiculously gerrymandered legislative redistricting just submitted to him by the leaders of the Senate and the Assembly. Looking at the GOP-created Senate map, it appears that I’d be in the new District 28 rather than the old District 26. I have no idea if that means I’d still have Sen. Liz …

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Morning View – Bad Day For Doormen

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Afternoon View – Go 99 Pizza

Thanks to the economy, New York City has seen a spate of dollar-per-slice pizza joints spring up. This one opened last summer on the Upper East Side. Plain cheese is 99 cents. Anything fancier is two or three bucks. I had one plain, purely for the bloggerly aspect. Not bad at all. Reviews on Yelp are pretty good too.

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Afternoon View – Park & 71

Clear and mild today. Lovely.

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Morning View – Madison Avenue

You have to get up early to see Madison like this.

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Afternoon View – First Avenue

Over the last eight years I’ve eaten hundreds of times at the half-dozen joints in the lower left of this shot. And I must report with sadness that my beloved Spanish Food closed abruptly last week. Demolition of the interior commenced within 24 hours. Sob.

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Afternoon View

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Morning View – Candy Sale

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Afternoon View – USPS 10021

All the old ladies were atwitter at my post office over rumors that ours was on the list of those to be closed down. “They can’t expect us to schlepp down to the 22!”

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Afternoon View – First Towards Harlem

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