February 2009 – Scouting NY

Man Leaps From 23rd Street Ledge

Someone emailed me a couple weeks back that there was a man jumping off a ledge on West 23rd btw. […]

This building, 9 East 10th Street (once the home of author Dawn Powell), features a really, really neat building number

I was walking south down Broadway from 34th Street today when I saw this pretty amazing temple perched on top

One of my favorite blocks in Manhattan is West 46th Street btw. 5th and 6th Avenues. An incredibly diverse mix

On 8th Ave btw. 39th and 40th is this really great faded travel sign, complete with an arrow on the

I’m standing on the corner of 23rd and Park Ave South… So why does that building on the corner say

One of the things that absolutely fascinates me about Manhattan is the idea that streams and rivers that once flowed

I’ve been scouting for something around Times Square/Hell’s Kitchen over the last week (as evidenced by some of my recent

It’s funny how you stumble on interesting bits in the unlikeliest of places. I was scouting Broadway in Brooklyn, which

A neat old brick wall ad on the side of the New York Inn (8th Ave btw. 46th & 47th):

I love religious crosses with neon-lettering attached to buildings, especially when they have ominous messages. Ignoring the tackiness factor, the

A great little bodega, the 100th Street Candy Store, wedged in between two much larger buildings on West 100th Street

After posting about the Beach House on an East Village apartment roof, one of our readers, Karen, commented that it