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  • September 03, 2015 at 05:11PM

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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 28, 2015 at 01:40PM

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    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

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    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…

  • August 25, 2015 at 01:44PM

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    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…

  • August 24, 2015 at 03:34PM

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    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)…

  • August 21, 2015 at 02:46PM

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    Lunchtime #drawing: The White Horse Tavern on Hudson Street, where Bob Dylan would listen to the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem play Irish rebel songs. Dylan 6/7 #NicksLunchboxService #BobDylan #WhiteHorseTavern #GreenwichVillage #WestVillage #DylanThomas #ClancyBrothers #architecture (at White Horse Tavern) from Nick’s Lunchbox Service on Tumblr http://ift.tt/1UXZw9g via IFTTT

  • August 20, 2015 at 05:19PM

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    Lunchtime #drawing: Got to hurry on back to Hotel Earle, a flophouse gone boutique hotel, where Bob Dylan first stayed in NYC in 1961 (now the Washington Square Hotel.) Dylan 5/7 #NicksLunchboxService #HotelEarle #BobDylan #Dylan #WashingtonSquareHotel #GreenwichVillage #awning #art #hotel (at Washington Square Park) from Nick’s Lunchbox Service on Tumblr http://ift.tt/1TWyW2Z via IFTTT