There are a lot of hibiscus flowers in the neighborhood. This one was at street leval under the High Line. I think this is the correct variety. The pink and orange make it look a if it would glow in the dark.
Glowing Hibiscus
Greenwich Village
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)
1 Patchin Place, NYC 6/1/2018
2 Patchin Place, NYC 6/1/2018
4 Patchin Place, NYC 6/1/2018
4 Patchin Place, NYC 6/1/2018
5 Patchin Place, NYC 6/1/2018
7-9 Patchin Place, NYC 6/1/2018
Patchin Place, NYC 6/1/2018
4 Patchin Place, NYC 6/1/2018
Patchin Place, NYC 6/1/2018
Patchin Place, NYC 6/1/2018
Patchin Place, NYC 6/1/2018
The even more charming private Milligan Place around the corner on 6th Avenue.
Milligan Place, NYC 6/1/2018
Milligan Place, NYC 6/1/2018
Milligan Place, NYC 6/1/2018
Roses
There is a playground/ballfield accross the street that has benches at one end. The rose bushes there are in full blom and smell lovely. The High Line has roses too.
Fifth Door
24 Fifth Avenue, designed by Emery Roth, is a 15-story building in the heart of Greenwich Village that replaced the famous Brevoort mansion. It opened as the Fifth Avenue Hotel in 1926. It is now a condominium on Manhattan’s Lower Fifth “Gold Coast.” This door keeps the brass polishers busy.
About the Brevoort Mansion: George Rogers began building his country home in 1828 on the northern edge of what became Washington Square. Fifth Avenue was an unpaved road through the farmland of Henry Brevoort.
- Read the fascinating stories about the Brevoort Mansion at daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com
- For Norm’s Thursday Doors April 5, 2018
