Tag: drawing

  • September 05, 2015 at 10:52AM

    Lunchtime #drawing: Union Square Farmers Market, messenger bag full of vegetables. #NicksLunchboxService @unsqgreenmarket #FarmersMarket #unionsquare (at Union Square Farmer’s Market) from Nick’s Lunchbox Service on Tumblr http://ift.tt/1JWzgs9 via IFTTT

  • September 04, 2015 at 02:50PM

    Lunchtime #drawing: James J. Walker Park and a view of Hudson and Leroy Streets, including a building covered in vines with orange bell-shaped flowers – the same type as I recall from oneyear ago covering a lime-green house in Istanbul. ‘Jimmy’ Walker was a Jazz-age mayor of NYC, with Tammany Hall connections, and was ultimately…

  • September 03, 2015 at 05:11PM

    Lunchtime #drawing: What is that? A lumpy stone mound? I’m awed that the Village Volcano has stood for more than 30 years, at Barrow Street and 7th Avenue, originally a concrete joke in 1982 by the restaurant owner next to a Con Ed steam leak that lasted much too long, but is now dormant. This…

  • September 02, 2015 at 08:15PM

    Later than lunchtime #drawing: A biker, a pedestrian crossing sign and the architectural relics of the inventor of a rubber horseshoe pad, Michael Hallanan, who built an 8 story commercial loft for that business at the corner of Barrow St. and West 4th St. (the initials “MH” are carved in stone) and converted No. 17…

  • September 01, 2015 at 04:19PM

    Lunchtime #drawing: A ginkgo tree catching sunlight in front of No. 25 Barrow Street, the oldest existing house on this street, built in 1826. Sketched while my eight-month old is taking a nap in her carrier. #NicksLunchboxService #BarrowStreet #25BarrowStreet #architecture #GreenwichVillage #WestVillage #ginkgo #art (at Barrow Street) from Nick’s Lunchbox Service on Tumblr http://ift.tt/1Jwnd0V via…

  • August 31, 2015 at 03:44PM

    Lunchtime #drawing: Greenwich House at 27 Barrow St., designed by the architects Delano & Aldrich in the Federal style and built 1917 – and home to the Barrow Street Theatre where I saw the Pulitzer Prize winning play, “The Flick”. #NicksLunchboxService #GreenwichVillage #GreenwichHouse #TheFlick #BarrowStreet #barrowstreettheatre #architecture (at Barrow Street Theatre) from Nick’s Lunchbox Service…

  • 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…

  • 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

  • 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.…

  • 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…