Though there was a lot of damage and destruction to the surrounding buildings, it always felt like if the WTC Towers had ever fallen over entire City blocks would have been taken out by them. But no. It wasn’t like that for the most part. Most of the buildings right around them, inc...
Model, Macbeth, Graphite and paint on laser-cut MDF, acrylic mirror and LED, recreated for exhibition, Staged 2003, Theater an her Wien, Vienna. “The design for Ernest Block’s opera of Shakespeare’s play Macbeth was based on a revolving mirrored illusion box. It’s rotations evoked Macbe...
Street in LIC, which was across from an open unused lot and located in a quiet dead end street. Hence the block party was able to fill the vacant space with guests who spilled out onto the dormant, decayed urban landscape, in a celebration of Long Island City’s past and imminent ...
America loves NFL football and the “idea” of going to the game is great. But let’s be honest unless you’re a die hard fan, going to the game is not that much fun without great seats, a lot of booze and an awesome tailgate. So this year NFL teams are following in the footstep...
Following a three block walk to a major street, I was able to flag a cab and weave my way back to the bar on Avenue A, convincing the driver I would have money for him at the bar. He cursed at me in Pakistani, and I wrote down what he said, hoping to look it up on my lapt...
We have lived in 1 room of a 2 bedroom apartment with the same roommate for 6.5 years. It was awesome and saved us all a lot of money but it was definitely time for us to branch out on our own! We moved in July 1st and it’s been crazy! We moved just 1 block away from where...
Local Tip:Ferries depart daily from the Battery Maritime Building between 7:00 am and 4:15 pm, with the last ferry returning to Manhattan at 6:00 pm. 11. Rockefeller Center ’If you’ve ever seen the Today Show, then you have witnessed the enormity of this iconic, multi-block, city ...
Continue reading Rock, DJs, and the Nineties: A Thursday @ H0L0 in Ridgewood, Queens LES Dumb Tetris Block in Lower East Side This is a dumb building in Lower East Side. I took it from a hotel with a lot of European … Continue reading Dumb Tetris Block in Lower East Side...
The fortress like Church just up the block,which has long vouchsafed this area against all sorts of supernatural threats(but especially Vampires)has been informed of my friend’s plans – and on his intentions. Supposedly they are ok with what’s about to happen, and the release of the vol...
( I came back to England and got sick for a few years and now I am “back on the block”The project is necessarily in stealth mode. Therefore, I have to speak to someone in person and I have to know that this person is one with integrity. However, nobody ever got back to me ...