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  • September 18, 2015 at 04:14PM

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    Lunchtime #drawing: Author Patricia Highsmith, who wrote ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’, lived in a sublet at 35 Morton Street in 1940. Most of her 22 novels were set in Greenwich Village. #NicksLunchboxService #patriciahighsmith #MortonStreet #35MortonStreet #LiteraryGreenwichVillage #WestVillage #GreenwichVillage #architecture Daily drawing no. 625 (at West Village) from Nick’s Lunchbox Service on Tumblr http://ift.tt/1iCIwYy via IFTTT

  • September 15, 2015 at 06:20PM

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    Race against the light #drawing: On my tippy toes on Bank Street, thankful that someone decided to paint their bricks pink. #NicksLunchboxService #lateafternoon #pinkhouse #WestVillage #bankstreet #architecture #taxi #buildings #ginkgo Daily drawing no. 622 (at West Village) from Nick’s Lunchbox Service on Tumblr http://ift.tt/1Qg407E via IFTTT

  • September 10, 2015 at 03:38PM

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    Lunchtime #drawing: A handsome row of houses on Charles Street, in the rain. #NicksLunchboxService #CharlesStreet #WestVillage #architecture (at Charles Street, West Village) from Nick’s Lunchbox Service on Tumblr http://ift.tt/1LmA5XK via IFTTT

  • September 04, 2015 at 02:50PM

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    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

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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 26, 2015 at 02:56PM

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    Lunchtime drawing: James Baldwin, “whose passionate, intensely personal essays in the 1950’s and 60’s on racial discrimination in America made him an eloquent voice of the civil-rights movement”, lived at 81 Horatio Street from 1958 to 1963. (Quote from NYTimes). Literary Greenwich Village 3/5 from Nick’s Lunchbox Service on Tumblr http://ift.tt/1Vb3LOF via IFTTT

  • 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 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