A short walk south from Christopher to 7th Avenue on Barrow Street in Greenwich Village, New York City. Bedford Street Doors are for Norm’s Thursday Doors, April 28.
100 Bedford Street or 17 Grove Street (NE corner of Bedford and Grove): House of William Hyde, window-maker, built 1822. Author James Baldwin frequently stayed here. “The most complete wooden frame house in Greenwich Village”
100 Bedford St or 17 Grove St, NYC 3/5/2016100 Bedford Street, NYC 3/5/2016
SW corner of Grove and Bedford Streets.
18 Grove St at Bedford St, NYC 3/5/16
95: Built as stables in 1894, later serving as a winery before becoming apartments in 1927. Alternate story by a local, “the building was actually built by J. Goebel & Company as a factory for crucibles–containers for holding molten glass”.
95 Bedford Street, NYC 3/5/2016
86: This unmarked door was the entrance to Chumley’s, a former speakeasy that never had an outside sign. A literary hangout for Steinbeck, Fitzgerald, O’Neill, Dos Passos, Faulkner, Anais Nin, Orson Welles, Edna St. Vincent Millay, James Thurber etc. And movie stars such as Humphrey Bogart would frequent this out of the public eye saloon. It evolved into a popular, cozy bar and restaurant; it can be seen in such films as Reds, Bright Lights, Big City, Wolfen and Sweet and Lowdown. Closed after a wall collapse in 2007 and has yet to reopen.
86 Bedford Street, NYC 3/5/2016
A short digression east on Commerce Street:
16 Commerce c. 1821: This old building has sagged alot. possibly due to the construction of 7th Avenue and the subway which cut through that section of Commerce Street.
16 Commerce Street, NYC 3/5/16
23 Commerce: One of a row of Federal-style houses.
23 Commerce Street, NYC 3/5/2016
75 1/2 Barrow Street: Narrowest building in NYC. It fills in a former alley for carriages. Originally a cobbler’s shop and then a candy factory, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay lived here (1923-24), as did actors John Barrymore and Cary Grant.
75 1/5 Bedford Street, NYC 11/22/15
70: Built 1807 by John Roome, sailmaker and court crier.
Not usual to see a Worm-eating Warbler feeding high up in a birch tree.
Worm-eating Warbler, Central Park 4/22/2016Double-crested Cormorantr, Central Park 4/22/2016Downy Woodpecker, Central Park 4/22/2016Northern Flicker, Central Park 4/22/2016Dogwood, Central Park 4/22/2016Yellow Archangel, Artillery Plant, or Aluminium Plant (Lamium galeobdolon), Central Park 4/22/2016
Doors and famous people on Horatio Street (the street I live on) from the Hudson River to Greenwich Avenue, Greenwich Village, New York City. Horatio Doors are for Norm’s Thursday Doors, April 21.
95 and 113 are luxury condos converted from factory buildings near the river. Odd numbers are on the north side and even on the south side of the street. This yellow brick building was built in 1947. While under construction the wood foundations of a 1812 fort were found. Pumps were installed in the basement to supply freezing brine water to the whole sale meat venders in the area.
79 is a four-story 1870 building that was home to novelist William Gaddis in the 1930s and 1940s. It was sold for $7.4 million in 2008, and for $10.5 million in 2012. Note the larger French style windows.
79 Horatio Street, NYC 4/15/2016
77 was Built c. 1836.
77 Horatio Street, NYC 4/15/2016
73 houses the West Village Nursery School, a coop founded c. 1962. It was a nursery school before then because my husband Marc Felix attended it back in 1949.
65: Marc was friends of the Leacock’s children who lived here in the late 1950s to early 1960s.
65 Horatio Street, NYC 4/15/2016
62 was once a stable, now a home for a classic Porsche. This, like some other houses, had its stoop removed and the lower trademans entrance became the main entry.
62 Horatio Street, NYC 4/15/2016
View west towards the Hudson River, Horatio Street, NYC 1/23/2016
53 was Built c. 1848.
53 Horatio Street, NYC 4/15/2016
51: Musician Todd Rundgren lived there with his girlfriend Bebe Buell, a singer and fashion model.
Corner of Horatio (633 Hudson): Writer John Cheever lived in a former building here, a teenaged dropout living on bread and buttermilk, when The New Republic published his first short story. Earlier, this address was the headquarters of the Hudson Dusters, a criminal gang whose territory was Manhattan below 13th Street and west of Broadway. They were shut down by police in 1916.
50 was built in 1877. Marc Felix lives here; first with his mother since his birth in 1946, and then with me, Sherry Felix, since 1971. Marc’s mother, Myriam (1918-1971), knew many artists and writers; such as, James Baldwin, Jason Robards, Rip Torn, Kim Stanley, Alfred Ryder, Alan Ginsburgand many othe actors, Jazz and Folk musicians..
50 Horatio Street, NYC 12/31/201050 Horatio Street 4/16/2016
The musician Richie Havens lived on Horatio for some time.
48: The sculptor Cheim Grosshad his studio in this old Firehouse. The famous actor Anthony Quinn visited Gross for sculpture lessons.
48 Horatio Street, NYC 4/15/2016
47: Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollack lived there briefly in the early 1930s.
1, 3 and 5: Gypsies live at number 3 which used to be a variety store.
1, 3 and 5 Horatio Street, NYC 4/15/2016
Green Triangle at Horatio Street, Jane Street and 8th Avenue.
Green Triangle at Horatio, 4th Street and 8th Avenue 4/10/2016
2 is on the corner of Greenwich Avenue and was the address of Jackson Hall (1859-63), the meeting place of the Mozart Hall faction of the Democratic Party – opponents of Tammany Hall. A 17-story red-brick coop, built in 1931, stands there now.
Before the Van Gogh apartments at number 2 (1960) there were one story shops there. In one there was a furniture maker, a friend of Marc’s mother, who only used wood joinery in his constrctuiion. Sadly, he commited suicide.
Jackson Square Parkis bounded by Horatio Street, Greenwich Avenue and 8th Avenue. It was acquired by the city in 1826, named for President Andrew Jackson, and was redesigned by Calvert Vaux and Parks superintendent Samuel Parsons in 1887. The cast-iron fountain was installed in 1990.
Jackson Square 4/15/2016Jackson Square 9/18/2015
Unfortunately, Greenwich Village is no longer a center for artists. It is the new “Gold Coast.” Low cost housing, the old hangouts and neighborhood stores are gone; replaced with condos, expensive restaurants, nightclubs, and boutiques.
Bloomsbury is an area of the London Borough of Camden, in central London, between Euston Road and Holborn, developed by the Russell family in the 17th and 18th centuries into a fashionable residential area. It is notable for its array of garden squares, literary connections (exemplified by the Bloomsbury Group), and numerous cultural, educational and health-care institutions.
History
The earliest record of what would become Bloomsbury is in the 1086 Domesday Book, which states that the area had vineyards and “wood for 100 pigs”. But it is not until 1201 that the name Bloomsbury is first noted, when William de Blemond, a Norman landowner, acquired the land. The name Bloomsbury is a development from Blemondisberi – the bury, or manor, of Blemond.
At the end of the 14th century, Edward III acquired Blemond’s manor, and passed it on to the Carthusian monks of the London Charterhouse, who kept the area mostly rural.
In the 16th century with the Dissolution of the Monasteries, Henry VIII took the land back into the possession of the Crown and granted it to Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton. The Russell family became landowners in the 18th century.
Queen Square, Bloomsbury in 1787. The fields to the north reach as far as Hampstead (Wikipedia)
Historically, Bloomsbury is associated with the arts, education, and medicine. The area gives its name to the Bloomsbury Group of artists, the most famous of whom was Virginia Woolf, who met in private homes in the area in the early 1900s, and to the lesser known Bloomsbury Gang of Whigs formed in 1765 by John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford.
Bloomsbury Square, laid out in 1660 by Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, was the first to be named as a square.
Bedford Square, built between 1775 and 1783, is still surrounded by Georgian town houses.
No 1 Bedford Square, London 1/5/2016Bedford Avenue, Bloomsbury, London 1/6/2016
The British Museum, which first opened to the public in 1759 in Montagu House, is at the heart of Bloomsbury. At the center of the museum the space around the former British Library Reading Room, which was filled with the concrete storage bunkers of the British Library, is today the Queen Elizabeth II Great Court, an indoor square with a glass roof designed by British architect Norman Foster.
Rear entrance to the British Museum, London 1/5/2016Central courtyard of the British Museum 1/6/2016
Also in Bloomsbury is the Foundling Museum, close to Brunswick Square. The Dickens Museum is in Doughty Street. The Petrie Museum and the Grant Museum of Zoology are at University College London in Gower Street.
Charles Darwin (1809–1882) lived at 12 Upper Gower Street in 1839. And…
Bonham Carter House, 45 Gower Street London 1/5/2016First Anaesthetic plaque, Bonham Carter House (Wikipedia)Location of my images in Bloomsbury, London (Google map in Lightroom)
I photographed this little Swamp Sparrow in Central Park on April 10, 2014 at the Azalea pond in the Ramble. I made up a story: He sees himself, looks several times then, not sure if it is another bird or himself, runs off.
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