Tag Archives: UES

First Avenue, Thursday, 10pm Yuppie Woman 1: Wow, they really put those apartments up fast!Yuppie Woman 2: What used to be there?Yuppie Woman 1: Um, there was a bar and a bodega. Nothing good.Yuppie Woman 2: Right.

East 68th Street, Trump Palace courtyard, 12pm Crabby Lady: Must you walk your dog in here? You don’t even live in this building. Woman With Beagle: My ex-husband does. So even Sophie knows where shit goes. Crabby Lady: Carry on.

McDonalds, First Avenue, 8:30am Customer on cell: He just jealous cuz I got all kinds of bitches and ho’s ridin’ my jock. I got all these bitches cuz I show them respect, you know what I’m sayin’? He just don’t know how to treat a bitch. I’d guess the customer was about 10 years old.

Dr. Jeff and I found this receipt hanging in the machine when we visited an ATM on Second Avenue last night.

Today’s NYC Marathon runs past my street at the 16-mile mark. The course goes through all five boroughs, although the Staten Island portion is pretty much just the Verrazano Bridge and the runners wisely only step into the Bronx for a few blocks. By the time I took the above photo, the winners had already been interviewed in Central Park, …

Duane Reade, 1st & 72nd, Thursday, 9PM A 20’s-ish goth chick, possibly homeless, definitely drug-addled, is singing a Suzanne Vega-ish stream-of-consciousness shopping song to herself. The final word of each line of her song is preceeded by a 2-second pause. I’m in the drug……store.But I don’t need….drugs.I need a soh….dah. (A woman walks past her.) There’s a lay…..dee.She’s buying hair…..spray.(I …

Second Avenue In front of Trump Palace 8:30am Stroller-pushing nanny on cell: “I swear to fucking Jesus, if I have to sit through Dora The Explorer one more fucking time, I’m jumping right off the 40th floor. Right out the fucking window. RIGHT OUT! Adios, muchachos!”

The Cooper-Hewitt, on the Upper East Side at 5th Avenue & 91st, is the national museum of design history and contemporary design. This main building was the former mansion of philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. In 1972, the Carnegie Foundation donated the mansion and surrounding property to the Smithsonian, who opened the museum in 1976.

Well, rats. I can’t lobby my state assemblyman to support the gay marriage bill because I don’t have one. Gov. Spitzer recently named Pete Grannis the state environmental commissioner, something I somehow missed. Today I got a notice that a special election to replace Grannis will take place on June 5th. But woohoo, the Democratic candidate to replace Grannis is …

First Avenue, looking northward from under the Queensboro Bridge at 59th Street. I live about 10 lights up, on the left.

I’ve already posted too much about the rents on the Upper East Side, but I’ll mention this too. Today I wandered across the street on my way home from the subway to peek at the signs in the lobby of a new apartment building almost ready for tenants. The posted rents are pretty much in line with the neighborhood, but …