COLORING THE NEIGHBORHOOD
The artist Joni McKown has created a coloring book of local landmarks exclusively for The Greenwich Hotel to be given to guests with children — but if you are a fan I bet you could ask nicely for one. I loved it for the watercolor above. The book was produced by Color Our Town, a father-son team that produces them for sites across the country. Check out Joni’s work here.

DOWNTOWN COBBLESTONES IN POETRY
Poet and Downtowner Tara Deal forwarded a section of a recent poem titled “Glitch” and inspired by the streets of Fidi. This is just an excerpt; the full poem is in the literary magazine The Packingtown Review. Tara also takes pics of the neighborhood and manipulates them, posting to her Instagram here.  

Glitch
Watch out
while walking on the cobblestones. While out
walking on the cobblestones,
someone tripped (died)
in this space between
Broad and Wall

Streets, near Bridge
and Gold, a skip away
from Old
Slip

CALIGRAPHY WORKSHOP AT THE SEAPORT
South Street Seaport Museum’s 19th century-style letterpress printers, Bowne & Co., will present a free chisel tip calligraphy workshop on Saturday, March 16, at 1pm and 3pm, at 207 Water. The professional designers will explore the art and historical methodologies of calligraphic writing in the 90-minute workshops and teach the fundamentals of drawing Roman capitals (majuscule) and lowercase (minuscule) letters using a chisel tip calligraphy pen. Advanced registration is encouraged.

These guys print my Christmas card every year and they are the BEST — the tag above was just an offhand label they made to mark my shopping bag. Plus Bowne & Co. is one of the oldest continually running businesses in the city.

LETTERPRESS DEMONSTRATIONS TOO
Plus you can watch a demonstration of the 19th century-style letterpress presses in a series called Fresh Prints on the first Thursday of every month from 6–7:30p.