With the purchase and razing of a certain 1852 East Village townhouse still fresh in some people’s minds Door To Door Realty proudly introduced the new face of 532 East 5th Street. Our original plan was to renovate and refurbish the townhouse that once stood on that spot but as we proceeded it became ap…
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Recently a small group of writers and literary organization administrators gathered at 4 St. Paul’s Café & Gallery for a great and rare opportunity. Monica Valenzuela, Director of Development and Community Programming at the Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island (COAHSI), hosted a free, informal information session specifically geared toward the emerging literary artists and writers in our area.
As part of COAHSI’s mission, Ms. Valenzuela seeks to serve individual artists by providing information on resources to help further their artistic endeavors. On January 10th the writers in attendance were treated not only to a morning with Ms. Valenzuela but an up close and personal meeting with Eleanor Savage, a Program Officer at the Jerome Foundation.
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Perusing Nathan Kensinger’s photographs of Staten Island might be enough to convince anyone, particularly the entire world besides Staten Island, that New York City’s ‘other’ borough is fated for eternal stepchild status. Check out his images of the long-defunct No…
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Aside from the potentially-incongruous idea of Park Avenue going green, three things about the renovations at No. 270 struck me as quite amazing.
(1) Rain water runoff collected in the massive 54,000-gallon basement tank and used for landscaping and toilets will save 1 million gallons of water ev…
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Art exhibit on Feb. 11 to feature works of Tim Daley, who photographs performers playing music on platforms and trains throughout the New York City. The 4 St. Paul’s Café in Staten Island will celebrate melodies – in photos – when the popular artist venue features “Subway Music,” a showing on Feb.11 by noted photographer Tim Daley. As a child, native New Yorker Daley spent a good deal of time viewing landscapes from the backseat of a car, during his family’s travels.
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The great thing about traveling is, you never know what you might find.
On a recent trip to Asheville, NC I took a detour off I-81 and made a pass through the one-traffic-light town of Floyd, Virginia. This on the advice of a friend who told me it was ‘a cool, quirky little place’. With a …
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