Tag: greenwichvillage

  • February 17, 2016 at 03:28PM

    Lunchtime #drawing: Sometimes cars just park on the sidewalk in front of you, on Downing Street alongside the eponymous playground with octagons cut out of its exterior brick wall. I’m giving an artist talk tomorrow 2/18! It’s at the Hudson Park Library at 66 Leroy St at 6 pm. #NicksLunchboxService #greenwichvillage #downingstreet #brickwall #octagons #sketch…

  • February 16, 2016 at 01:49PM

    Lunchtime #drawing: A window, a chandelier and some pews inside the Church of St. Luke’s in the Fields, built 1821 on farmland donated by Trinity Parish, in the West Village. I’ve been wanting to draw more interior spaces this year, and the rain today is a great motivation to be indoors. #NicksLunchboxService #interior #church #Episcopal…

  • February 14, 2016 at 04:05PM

    Lunchtime #drawing: Inside away from the cold with stunning stained glass windows in the Jefferson Market Library, originally a courthouse designed in a Victorian Gothic Style by Frederick Clark Withers and Calvert Vaux, built 1875-77. In the late 1950s it became unused, and Greenwich Village community members fought off a planned demolition. It reopened in…

  • February 04, 2016 at 07:24PM

    Lunchtime #drawing: These S-shaped shutter dogs (their real name!) hold the shutters open at 68 Bedford Street in the West Village. #NicksLunchboxService #shutterdogs #bedfordstreet #westvillage #greenwichvillage #art #architecture #19thcentury (at Bedford Street, NYC) from Nick’s Lunchbox Service on Tumblr http://ift.tt/1PXG4ui via IFTTT

  • February 01, 2016 at 12:33PM

    Lunchtime #drawing: Author Sinclair Lewis lived at 69 Charles Street from 1910-1913. This morning I finished installing my #LiteraryGreenwichVillage exhibition at the Hudson Park Library! It’s on view Feb 1-29. #NicksLunchboxService #SinclairLewis #westvillage #greenwichvillage #69CharlesStreet #CharlesStreet #brownstone #art #architecture (at New York, New York) from Nick’s Lunchbox Service on Tumblr http://ift.tt/1KlQpxK via IFTTT

  • January 29, 2016 at 04:19PM

    Lunchtime #drawing: Greek Revival buildings from the early 19th Century at 4-10 Grove Street, with dormer windows up top, and a London planetree with mottled bark dashing through the middle. Grove Street was called Cozine Street in 1809, and then Columbia Street in 1811. Next week my Literary Greenwich Village show opens at the Hudson…

  • January 26, 2016 at 03:55PM

    Lunchtime #drawing: Check out my #LiteraryGreenwichVillage art exhibition in February at the Hudson Park Library on Leroy Street, and wish the library a happy 110th birthday, it opened in 1906. #NicksLunchboxService @nypl #library #HudsonParkLibrary #art #architecture #carnegielibrary #leroystreet #westvillage #greenwichvillage (at Hudson Park Library) from Nick’s Lunchbox Service on Tumblr http://ift.tt/1PBtjWe via IFTTT

  • January 22, 2016 at 04:25PM

    Lunchtime #drawing: The blues on Minetta Street. #NicksLunchboxService #minettastreet #greenwichvillage #bluebricks #window #art #architecture (at Minetta Lane Theatre) from Nick’s Lunchbox Service on Tumblr http://ift.tt/1ZSC5E5 via IFTTT

  • January 19, 2016 at 03:42PM

    Lunchtime #drawing: Needing to rethink this no gloves thing, at 185 West 4th Street at Jones Street, originally an 1830s carriage house converted to a residence around 1917. It was later combined with no. 183 (built 1917 to look Federal Style) into a single residence known as the Fairfax and Sammons house after the architects…

  • January 18, 2016 at 02:53PM

    Lunchtime #drawing: A cold blue sky and the brick tower of the Church of St. Luke’s in the Fields, built 1821 in the Federal style on land donated by Trinity Church in then far-flung Greenwich Village. #NicksLunchboxService #stlukesinthefields #487HudsonStreet #hudsonstreet #episcopal #church #federalstyle #GreenwichVillage #westvillage (at The Church of St. Luke in the Fields (Episcopal))…