Sculpture on the City Streets Some days, I think I see Batman everywhere. Some days, I just see the man in blue. It’s not always Batman. This blue man, at Sixth Avenue and West 53rd Street in Manhattan, is called…
Manhattan Blue Man
Tag: New York City
Strolling Fifth Avenue in New York City
NYC Sites to See on a Day Trip or a Longer Visit The Big Apple, a city of dreams for visitors of all ages, is also a city so vast that there will never be sufficient time to see everything…
Extraneous Learning at Duarte Square
History from the Dominican Republic to New York City On a walk from Soho to Little Italy, apropos of nothing, I come across a statue of Juan Pablo Duarte, the founder of the Dominican Republic. Why here? I wonder. I…
Make Time for the Tenement Museum
The Bashful Adventurer visits the Tenement Museum in New York City to learn how people lived in centuries past. Will the visit be dreary or enlightening?
Infrastructure Tourism: The Holland Tunnel
A Landmark of Modernity in SoHo As unlikely as anyone visiting the island of Manhattan is going there purely to experience the Holland Tunnel (which leads from Jersey City, N.J. to New York) and all the concomitant traffic-ridden pleasure such…
Central Park: Enter through the Vanderbilt Gate
Nature in New York City Fresh from a visit to the Museum of the City of New York, the Brawny Sherpa and a Youthful Adventurer and I cross Fifth Avenue to admire the Vanderbilt Gate at 105 Street. Although the…
Melting-Pot Museum Full of New York City History
The Bashful Adventurer heads to the Museum of the City of New York. Will her visit be fun, or will she feel like she’s snooping in Grandma’s attic?
Grand Central Secrets
What to Look for in the Manhattan Train Station To visit New York City’s Grand Central Station with the eyes of a tourist, rather than the blinders of a daily commuter, look for what is memorable. Of course, we’ve all…
Finding Ulysses in the Big Apple
Who knew that Civil War General and, later, President Ulysses S Grant had ties to New York beyond West Point? The Bashful Adventurer investigates.
Overthinking the Algonquin
Dorothy Parker Is Long Gone I sit down at the Round Table restaurant in the Algonquin Hotel in New York City with no one but long-dead writer and wit Dorothy Parker spinning through my head. Who wouldn’t admire what might…