Chinatown has been hit hard by the pandemic. They are trying to get people to come. The cheery lanterns are inviting. We went there for dinner and ate in a cubicle outside. The food was good. A cold rain began to fall. Ordering a sizzling plater was a good idea because it kept the food hot. Next time I’ll bring a blanket and a thermal cup for the tea. Someone needs to invent a rechargeable plate warmer for outdoor dining. I couldn’t find one on Amazon to take with me for outdoor winter dining.
Lamps
Abingdon Sq Lamp
Grace Court Alley
I went to Brooklyn to visit Grace Court and Grace Court Alley. Most of these are good for
- Norm’s Thursday Doors.
- Forgotten NY has great information plus maps
There a few gas lights too. Reminded me of London in the 50s when a lamplighter used come light the lamp outside my window every night.
Grace Court
Grace Court Alley
Horatio Lamps
Two lamps on Horatio Street, NYC from my lamp photo collection.
I created a Lamp category https://port4u.net/category/challenges/lamps/
Riverside
Doors on Riverside Drive, Manhattan and a lamp over a door on West 81st Street by the American Museum of Natural History.
74 & 79 Street Doors
Upper East Side, 74th and 79th Street doors. Elenore Roosevelt lived in one of these.
East 75 Street Doors
A couple more of Manhattan’s classic, exclusive, Upper East Side doors.
Patchin Place Doors
I had a request from a fellow blogger to show the home of E. E. Cummings (1894-1962). The charming alley he lived in is called Patchin Place next to Jefferson Market Library.
The property that became Patchin Place and Milligan Place was once part of a farm belonging to Sir Peter Warren. In 1799 it was sold to Samuel Milligan, who later conveyed it to his son-in-law, Aaron Patchin. The buildings that now occupy the site were put up in 1848-1852 as boarding houses for Basque waiters and other workers at the nearby Brevoort House hotel on 5th Avenue.
A story: The then modernist writer Djuna Barnes (1982-1982) moved into a room-and-a-half apartment at 5 Patchin Place in 1941. She became so reclusive that Cummings would occasionally check on her by shouting out his window “Are you still alive, Djuna?”.
- For Norm’s Thursday Doors 6/7/2018
- Patchin Place (Wikipedia)
The even more charming private Milligan Place around the corner on 6th Avenue.