Month: August 2015
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August 30, 2015 at 08:59PM
Lunchtime #drawing: One of the columns and the door into the Merchant’s House Museum at 29 East 4th Street, built 1832 and the only family home preserved intact in New York City, inside and out, from the 19th century, now structurally endangered by the eight-story hotel project next door. #NicksLunchboxService @merchantshouse #museum #MerchantsHouseMuseum #LandmarksPreservationCommission #landmark…
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August 29, 2015 at 12:57PM
Lunchtime #drawing: The Lower East Side Tenement Museum on Orchard Street, with reflections of other buildings in its window. #NicksLunchboxService @thetenementmuseum #museum #tenementmuseum #LES #lowereastside #windowreflection (at Lower East Side Tenement Museum) from Nick’s Lunchbox Service on Tumblr http://ift.tt/1JDqdI3 via IFTTT
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August 28, 2015 at 01:40PM
Lunchtime #drawing: In 1923 poet Hart Crane lived on the second floor of 45 Grove Street, an 1871 apartment building created from a two-story 1830 mansion. Literary Greenwich Village 5/5. That’s a wrap. Five days doesn’t come close to covering all of the writers’ history in Greenwich Village, I will return to this theme again.…
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August 27, 2015 at 04:11PM
Lunchtime #drawing: Ivy covered 18 West 10th Street was home to writer Emma Lazarus. A line from her poem, “The New Colossus,” is inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” Literary Greenwich Village 4/5 #NicksLunchboxService #EmmaLazarus #GreenwichVillage #LiteraryGreenwichVillage #poet #statueofliberty…
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August 25, 2015 at 01:44PM
Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay lived at 75 ½ Bedford Street (only 9 and ½ feet wide), now partially under scaffolding from the building next door. She was the 1923 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry with “The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver: A Few Figs from Thistles: Eight Sonnets in American Poetry, 1922. A…
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August 24, 2015 at 03:34PM
lunchtime #drawing: for the last forty years of his life, poet e.e. cummings walked through this door to his home at number 4 patchin place, right around the corner from the jefferson market library. kicking off a literary series in greenwich village 1/5. #NicksLunchboxService #eecummings #GreenwichVillage #architecture #Literature #poet #architecture #LiteraryGreenwichVillage #lowercase (at Greenwich Village)…
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August 23, 2015 at 07:01PM
Milestone #drawing: This is my 600th consecutive daily drawing for ‘Nick’s Lunchbox Service’ – and a view of lower Manhattan from the 19th floor of the Standard Hotel, with the High Line and Whitney Museum down below. Thanks for keeping up with this project! #NicksLunchboxService #LowerManhattan #skyline #StandardHotel #NYC #HighLine #WhitneyMuseum #WaterTowers #illustration #sketchbook #art…
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August 22, 2015 at 02:11PM
Lunchtime #drawing: No. 4 Gramercy Park West, the stoop Dylan sat on to be photographed for the Highway 61 Revisited album cover, and a Greek Revival mansion that once housed mayor James Harper and received its lanterns out front. Dylan 7/7 This wraps up a week of drawing Bob Dylan related locations in New York…