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Seen & Heard: New trees for WMP
NEW TREES FOR WMP
J. caught the Parks Department installing a few new trees on the edge of the Washington Market Park lawn last Thursday.
SOHO PHOTO GALLERY IS 50
The gallery had to delay its 50th anni show for covid, but it back on Jan. 7 to celebrate with a show of 100 photos from past and current members. The gallery was founded in 1971 by a group of New York Times photographers who wanted to create a venue for photography as fine art and it’s now a non-profit arts organization operated by the member photographers. They moved to 15 White in 1979.
FRAUNCES TAVERN NOW HAS A PIANO BAR
The ancient pub opened a piano bar upstairs a few weeks ago — assuming it’s in the room down the hall from GW’s teeth? Will check it out soon since I love that place.
SO TEMPTING…
It was all I could do NOT to go down this ladder — I have never ever seen a cover like that just left open. My son convinced me it was a bad idea. Still…
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Great pic of mysterious subterranean space. Looks like a subway emergency exit hatch. Yet there’s something Dickensian there; I almost expect to see Oliver Twist and his cohorts peering out.
Perhaps it’s a secret passage from one of the prisons and workhouses Scrooge mentions.
Or the entrance to some post-modern setting (think “Lost,” Edgar Ulmer’s “The Black Cat,” or Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis.”)
At least these alternatives are more adventurous than a hatchway door left ajar in Tribeca.
Love that new scaffolding popping up everywhere. Light, bright…not like the old monstrosity “sheds”!