Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Dec 3, 2009, 3:39 pm
... Burton Through April 26, 2010 • Gabriel Orozco December 13, 2009 - March 1, 2009 • The New Typography December 23, 2009 - July 12, 2010 • William Kentridge: Five Th...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Dec 1, 2009, 3:00 am
Note: This holiday walk is part of the event NYC Bloggers Do the Holidays. See the end of this post for participating blogs and the links to their special posts for the season. Line up the cockta...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Nov 29, 2009, 1:56 pm
Fifth Avenue and SoHo may be popular destinations for holiday shopping in New York, but for those who enjoy browsing in small stores away from the crowded sidewalks, Bleecker Street in Greenwhich Vill...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Nov 26, 2009, 12:50 pm
Thanks largely to the popularity of Jay-Z's now ubiquitous New York-loving anthem "Empire State of Mind," the top song on Billboard's Hot 100 chart this week and on which she sings the chorus ...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Nov 24, 2009, 8:27 am
After 82 years, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thursday, November 26, 2009 will be following a new route through Manhattan. A major reason for the change has to do with the city's recen...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Nov 22, 2009, 10:47 am
During those liminal moments after the sun sets but before the night has muted the clarity of day, the landscape veers off into abstraction. It's the golden hour, a mystical time favored by visual...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Nov 20, 2009, 9:48 am
It began in 1891 with the opening of Carnegie Hall, the symbol of music world success that Andrew Carnegie paid people to construct on 7th Avenue between West 57th and West 56th Streets. A year later,...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Nov 17, 2009, 5:25 pm
Sometimes it's not about where to walk but when. Certain hours of the day carry with them their own qualities, and strange as it may sound, I am fond of the quiet mystery of the early morning. Jus...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Nov 15, 2009, 1:23 pm
Not surprisingly, New York as a subject generates a lot of books. Each year the shelves in the New York section of bookstores become overcrowded with new books about the city, each one adding somethin...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Nov 12, 2009, 11:23 am
Walking through the Union Square Greenmarket, I often feel like such an amateur. Dumfounded by the varieties of potatoes, rutabagas, turnips, squash, or heirloom tomatoes on display and what to do wit...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Nov 10, 2009, 11:39 am
Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung (July 1875 – June 1961) embarked on an extraordinary journey in the years before World War I, a dangerous adventure that took him inward to the deepest recesses of his p...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Nov 6, 2009, 7:20 pm
Hundreds of thousands of New York Yankees fans in the city got the chance to applaud their hometown World Series heroes for the parade and ceremony in lower Manhattan on Friday, November 6, celebratin...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Nov 4, 2009, 4:18 pm
Favorable weather may encourage long walks through the New York cityscape, but sometimes a short walk of a mile or less may be just the ticket for some serious New York sightseeing. Perfect for brisk ...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Oct 28, 2009, 3:29 pm
From the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century many prominent scholars and writers professed a faith in spiritualism, the idea that one could communicate with departed spirits through ...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Oct 23, 2009, 11:58 am
Homer & Langley, the sweet, funny and often heartbreaking novel by E. L. Doctorow, is inspired by the true story of the famous Collyer Brothers, Homer & Langley, reclusive siblings shuttered behind th...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Oct 16, 2009, 3:12 pm
Sweet Smell of Success is one of the great and final dramatic noir films set and filmed in an alluringly dangerous New York. Directed by Alexander Mackendrick with a brilliant script by Ernest Lehman ...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Oct 7, 2009, 10:20 am
The word gumshoe can be used as an intransitive verb, meaning to work as a detective, but more commonly gumshoe refers to the investigators themselves. While the etymology is a little murky, the term ...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Oct 3, 2009, 10:10 am
Thursday afternoon, the first real chilly day of the season with strong west winds, I visited two bookstores that specialize in mysteries. The chilly day, coupled with the passing of dark clouds, sign...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Sep 30, 2009, 2:23 pm
During the next three weeks or so, I recommend a visit to The Studio Museum in Harlem to see several exhibitions from the museum's summer season that have been carried over into the fall. Hurvin A...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Sep 28, 2009, 10:11 am
James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938), influential writer, activist, and diplomat, settled into life in Central Harlem in an attractive red Romanesque building near the corner of 135th Street and Seventh A...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Sep 23, 2009, 12:32 pm
When the leaders of the world convene in New York for the opening of the General Assembly at the United Nations, tying up traffic on the east side of Manhattan with their heavily armed motorcades, reg...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Sep 21, 2009, 2:46 pm
"Do y'all mind if I listen to my Ipod?" asked art critic Dave Hickey in a twang, just before striking the first notes of his freewheeling lecture at the packed SVA Theatre on. W. 23rd St. last Thu...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Sep 17, 2009, 2:15 pm
Walking along W. 22nd Street yesterday, on my way to the galleries on the west side of Chelsea, I realized I had often walked this way before. Looking at the familiar houses and recognizing several st...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Sep 15, 2009, 10:26 am
Are there really vineyards on Long Island? Yes. Where did the cocoa in the chocolate come from? Ecuador. What is in the Halve Maen pie? Mincemeat. Where can I normally buy this cheese? At Fairway. You...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Sep 12, 2009, 5:55 pm
I've never developed a long-term passion for fashion. As a child in Texas, my mother often took me to Neiman Marcus to dress me in pretty little Florence Eisemans, but my inner little cowgirl mapp...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Sep 10, 2009, 1:57 pm
From Fall 2009 NY400 Week, a celebration of Holland on the Hudson, continues through September 13, Harbor Day. • SHIPS: The Half Moon (above), a replica of Henry Hudson's ship and operated by T...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Sep 8, 2009, 12:51 pm
I'm experiencing a surreal and eerie flashback, because the images of Google Maps' Street View of my Greenwich Village neighborhood have become fascinatingly out of date. While opening Google ...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Sep 6, 2009, 11:44 am
While no longer a bustling center of manufacturing, New York's Garment District between Thirty-fourth and Forty-second Streets and Fifth to Ninth Avenues still hums with fabric stores, machine sho...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Sep 2, 2009, 11:03 am
With cool weather returning, September and October are popular months to explore day trips north of the city, especially through sites along the Hudson River Valley. Fall foliage, mountain scenery and...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Aug 30, 2009, 7:39 am
In the spring of 1857, artist Frederic Church (1826-1900) traveled throughout Ecuador, making sketches of the country's mountainous landscapes. Two years later, working in his studio in the Tenth ...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Aug 26, 2009, 4:12 pm
The Tenth Street Studio Building at 51 W. 10th Street was demolished in 1956 to make way for an apartment building. Though not as high profile as the destruction of McKim, Mead, and White's Penn S...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Aug 25, 2009, 2:36 pm
The summer is not technically over until September 22, 2009 at 5:18 p.m. (for those of you in the Northern Hemisphere), the date of the autumnal equinox, but with the nearness of Labor Day (Monday, S...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Aug 24, 2009, 6:53 am
In Season 3, Episode 2 of AMC's Mad Men, titled "Love Among the Ruins," Pete Campbell, the Co-Head of Accounts for Sterling Cooper, the fictional Madison Avenue advertising agency at the center of...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Aug 21, 2009, 10:42 am
Living in a city with so much art, it's not surprising that so many people who are not professional artists occasionally like to draw, paint, sculpt, and take pictures. So it shouldn't be surp...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Aug 19, 2009, 4:40 pm
Needing a change of work space other than my own living room, one with more gravitas than a place where dogs bring me squeaky toys, I went uptown to the main branch of the New York Public Library this...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Aug 17, 2009, 4:28 pm
Visitors to Astor Place, the Bowery, or the East Village may find themselves stopped in their tracks these days, confronted for the first time with the Cooper Union's new, although unfinished, aca...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Aug 16, 2009, 3:46 pm
Celebrations of abstraction, several fine drawing exhibitions, a major Kandinsky retrospective, a visiting Vermeer, an imaginative filmmaker, and the continuing celebrations of the New York in its 400...
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