Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Feb 8, 2012, 7:25 am
Photographer Eugène Atget (French, 1857-1927) made over 8,500 pictures of Paris during his prolific life as an artist - the romantic city's cobblestone streets, its windows with store mannequins, luscious but tamed parks, mysterious courtyards, his own neighborhood in the 5th arrondissement, and m...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Feb 5, 2012, 4:44 pm
One of the many charms of living the life of a flâneur, aside from being oblivious to the fact that it's the wrong time (21st century, not the 19th) and the wrong city (New York, not Paris) is to embark on a long winter's walk in a city park without caring about much of anything and then suddenly b...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Feb 1, 2012, 8:34 am
En route to a performance at the either of the main venues of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the BAM Harvey or the Peter Jay Sharp Building, especially near the train stations that service the Brooklyn neighborhood of Fort Greene, it is possible to observe many visitors from other boroughs looking t...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Jan 28, 2012, 2:51 pm
Winter is proving elusive this season. This time last week, a snow blanketed the city, and a walk in Central Park lived up to the billing as a winter wonderland. The snow is gone now. A walk along the High Line this past Thursday turned up all sorts of colors, few of which we normally associat...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Jan 26, 2012, 5:36 pm
From 1934 to 1947, the years that serve as the focus of the current Weegee exhibit at the ICP, the photographer lived in an apartment at 5 Centre Market Place in Manhattan. Living directly across the street from the old Police Headquarters, the freelance crime photographer had quick access to the ac...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Jan 25, 2012, 8:02 am
Leave it to Weegee (1899—1968), our flashbulb-flashing late night freelance crime photographer of New York's most noir era, to make a picture of Macy's balloon of Santa Claus look like a crime victim. But there he's done it. On November 21, 1941, in the wee hours of pre-parade inflation, Weegee cl...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Jan 21, 2012, 4:33 pm
View A Winter Walk in Central Park in a larger map Images from the late morning of January 21, 2012.
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Jan 21, 2012, 9:08 am
Walking in a newly fallen snow during the first hour of daylight is a great privilege for those of us who inhabit the world of city morning larks. Some of us are by nature "morning people." Others among us, perhaps more partisan to late nights, venture out into the dawn only at the insistence...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Jan 19, 2012, 8:00 am
Like the Machine that identifies the next victim or perpetrator, the CBS drama Person of Interest seems to be the result of a complex algorithm spewed out by a mischievous and clever TV series generator. Take a basic New York detective drama set in New York City, with its variety of gritty and glamo...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Jan 16, 2012, 7:02 am
... on Washington in 1941 to protest discrimination in the war industries. The march was called off after President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed legislation pledging fairness. Randolph, Bayard Rustin, and Martin Luther King, Jr. ... , marching with others for a just cause is a fine way to walk of...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Jan 11, 2012, 8:22 am
While walking around the city this month or while visiting friends with lofty views, it's easy to spot the soaring tower of 1 World Trade Center in the skyline of Lower Manhattan. The steel structure of this tallest of the World Trade Center buildings has now surpassed ninety floors, and workers hav...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Jan 7, 2012, 11:16 am
Perfect for this surprisingly warm winter day in New York City, with a daytime high expected near 57°F by the afternoon, I have a new place for us to walk. It's Pier 15 on the East River Waterfront Esplanade. Find it on the water's edge at the end of John Street, directly south of the commercial Pi...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Jan 4, 2012, 7:30 am
"Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it."  - Søren Kierkegaard, Søren Kierkegaard's Jour...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Dec 31, 2011, 9:09 am
Before the 1890s, when New Year's Eve celebrations became the chief means to welcome the new year, New Yorkers spend most of their time, energy, and money on the traditional custom of visiting private homes on New Year's Day.* These extravagant all-day affairs involved the well-established men of Ne...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Dec 27, 2011, 5:23 pm
Walking around New York City often involves bearing witness to many headline news stories. As a pedestrian journalist, I often report on the everyday life in New York City, but on occasion I like to report, if not without the occasional bias of an opinionated blogger, on the bigger stories as they u...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Dec 21, 2011, 6:52 am
Running around to complete holiday preparations is often so frantic that the idea of taking an extra leisurely walk for pleasure seems somewhat ridiculous, if not inefficient. Yet, taking this additional stroll, especially in a city known to produce stress, provides the means to walk off some of the...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Dec 16, 2011, 7:31 am
Ladies' Mile, the term for the historic shopping district of New York City's Gilded Age in the late 19th century, continues as an important neighborhood for shopping. The boundaries of the designated historic district stretch roughly from W. 15th to W. 23rd Street, the area northwest of Union Square...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Dec 14, 2011, 7:23 am
Several commentators in the popular press have started comparing our own time to the Gilded Age, a term for the late 19th century decades in the United States that were marked by rapid industrialization, economic development, financial havoc, and extreme inequality between the rich and the poor. New...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Dec 10, 2011, 9:22 am
Washington Irving, Clement Clarke Moore, and O. Henry (The following post includes material previously published on Walking Off the Big Apple, now gathered together around the virtual holiday hearth. - TT) Many of the ways we think of Christmas, in most of its secular and popular forms ...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Oct 30, 2011, 1:23 pm
We're still talking about the storm that came in yesterday, the surprisingly early wintry nor'easter. The hard rain, wind, and snow battered the city and pounded all of us who happened to be out in it. This morning, many folks are still dealing with the power outages and the broken tree branches wit...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Oct 28, 2011, 9:11 am
This is the third and final post in a series on Steampunk culture. Steampunk, explored in the previous posts on Union Square and Dumbo, is powered by alternative visions of the city, usually the sort of neo-Victorian futuristic cities as imagined by Jules Verne or H.G. Wells or even the Americ...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Oct 26, 2011, 8:05 am
For a second steampunk excursion into New York - Union Square was the first - Dumbo in Brooklyn provided a most suitable location. With its industrial built environment, heavy infrastructure, and fantastical views of the bridges and Manhattan, the area down under the Manhattan Bridge overpass hardly...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Oct 23, 2011, 12:16 pm
Just when the steampunk genre seems to wane in popularity, it comes back again even stronger than before. New fans are constantly being drawn to the aesthetics of this alt brand of neo-Victorian futurism and its civilization built on steam. Steampunk sets the imagination afloat with airships streami...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Oct 21, 2011, 11:11 am
Many people arrive at this website via a search for "favorite walks in Central Park," or some such phrase. While I like to take long strolls in the park, I can't say I have a favorite one. I'm all for improvisation. Many times I'm doing something close to the park, maybe just a block or so near the ...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Oct 19, 2011, 8:11 am
Surely one of the timeliest art exhibitions currently on display in New York must be David, Delacroix, and Revolutionary France: Drawings from the Louvre at the Morgan Library & Museum. Given the general state of occupation, just how did the likes of artists Jacques-Louis David, Jean-Auguste-Dominiq...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Oct 18, 2011, 4:16 pm
My final excursion on OHNY (openhousenewyork) weekend included two sites in the Financial District - an Art Deco ballroom on Broad Street and a contemporary luxury condo building on John Street. As my Sunday morning routine usually includes coffee, Battery Park, Trinity Church, and (now) Zuccotti Pa...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Oct 17, 2011, 12:27 pm
Churches and synagogues constituted the vast majority of the Upper West Side sites open for visits during this weekend's 9th Annual OHNY (openhousenewyork). While I didn't have the time to visit the ones open only on Sunday, the three sites of worship I visited on Saturday - First Baptist Church, th...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Oct 16, 2011, 5:33 pm
The 9th Annual OHNY (openhousenewyork) event took place this weekend, opening up rarely seen New York interiors to the public. Designed to promote architecture and design excellence, OHNY featured many venues and special programs at sites around the five boroughs, and as always, even seasoned New Yo...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Oct 14, 2011, 7:53 am
In Truman Capote's novella Breakfast at Tiffany's, Holly Golightly sprinkles her conversations with just a little bit of French, or more typically, with a mélange of French and English. Par exemple, she decribes one of her suitors as "quel beast." Speaking a few words in French gives our self-made ...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Oct 12, 2011, 8:27 am
Surely most of us have experienced at one point in our lives the dreaded realization that we've failed to return our library books on time, and we've racked up fees. A friend of mine in graduate school was so chronically late in returning her books that at one point, after accumulating hundreds of d...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Oct 11, 2011, 8:54 am
In addition to raising consciousness about the inequality of wealth in the United States and the lack of accountability of the new robber barons, the Occupy Wall Street movement is also providing the public a few activist lessons in New York geography. Members of the amorphous group, along with thei...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Oct 9, 2011, 7:36 pm
On Saturday afternoon, October 8, the Occupy Wall Street protesters marched from their encampment at Zuccotti Park/Liberty Square north to Washington Square Park to convene a General Assembly. As with the other days of late, the weather could not have been better for a public demonstration - clear,...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Oct 6, 2011, 5:35 pm
Several thousand New Yorkers came to Foley Square late yesterday afternoon to participate in a community and labor rally in support of the Occupy Wall Street protests. The rally ended with a march to the Financial District and Zuccotti Park, the current home base for the demonstrators. The ...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Oct 5, 2011, 9:03 am
Now that Occupy Wall Street has at last garnered some mainstream media coverage, we may want to turn our attention to the language, geography, and cultures of occupation. One good way to do so would be to take a walk downtown on Broadway, strolling all the way past the lively encampment at Zuccotti ...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Sep 30, 2011, 4:09 pm
The nerve center of the ongoing Occupy Wall Street protest, one that began September 17, is a mostly concrete urban space called Zuccotti Park, once called Liberty Plaza Park and now renamed Liberty Square by the protesters. The park is situated on prime real estate in the Financial District in Low...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Sep 28, 2011, 8:58 am
On a Thursday afternoon a couple of weeks ago, the rains came in and the wind whipped around from the north, and in the wake of the frontal passage it felt gloriously like fall. People walked the streets in sweaters and long scarves, and for a few days, everyone looked ready to say goodbye to summer...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Sep 23, 2011, 4:00 pm
... work and was abused by some of her employers. She said, "There are ... Nassau Street). 1853 The story of the umbrella girl is only one ... to sudden poverty, a milliner born of a family that lost their fortune ... a wool picker. Many stories of the working girls involve a sudd...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Sep 21, 2011, 8:54 am
The exhaustive Willem de Kooning retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art boasts nearly two hundred works by the influential postwar artist, so to select only one work out of so many potentially worthy candidates seems somewhat perverse. Yet, an in-depth look at a particularly hectic mixed media ca...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Sep 16, 2011, 2:11 pm
The popular annual Feast of San Gennaro has begun. While famous for its abundant opportunities to overindulge in food and drink, Little Italy's Feast of San Gennaro, now in its 85th year, is at heart a religious festival, a celebration of the Patron Saint of Naples. On September 19, 1926, immi...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Sep 14, 2011, 9:00 am
Not too many regular folk I know have business to do at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, but it's worth taking a trip downtown to Maiden Lane and Liberty Street (converging just past William St.) to visit, or at least revisit, the triangular park just to the east of the bank - Louise Nevelson P...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Sep 10, 2011, 10:41 pm
On Saturday, September 10, I walked south on Broadway from near my place in the Village all the way down to St. Paul's Chapel on Broadway at Vesey Street. The first few blocks of my walk seemed rather normal, just another Saturday in the city, but south of Canal Street, a sizable police force on the...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Sep 9, 2011, 5:07 pm
On Fashion's Night Out, a festive atmosphere pervades the evening, out on the streets and in the boutiques, especially in fashion-rich SoHo. Meeting new people requires little effort, and a little champagne and a little chocolate, or a lot of it, helps to get the conversations flowing. Given the nat...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Sep 7, 2011, 8:27 am
Preview of Fall 2011 Museum Exhibitions The Fall 2011 museum season may be notable for several potentially outstanding exhibitions, but certainly a big story concerns the re-openings of two museums. The National Academy Museum at 1083 Fifth Avenue, the mansion once home to Archer Milton Huntington a...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Sep 4, 2011, 1:39 pm
I never made it out of town this summer. While I did take some time off from regular editing and writing tasks, I mainly stayed within the confines of the island of Manhattan. I did manage to visit Brooklyn a couple of times. Brooklyn Heights Promenade. August 12, 2011. 5:32 p.m. I never stoppe...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Aug 29, 2011, 9:57 am
There's not a lot to report. While the flooding and winds and power outages grew dire in parts of New Jersey, the Catskill Mountains, and terribly in Vermont, Lower Manhattan experienced minor issues with the passage of the storm Irene. People woke in my neighborhood on Sunday to see steady r...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Aug 27, 2011, 4:50 pm
The waiting is tedious. It was time to leave the apartment and take a walk. I had watched television coverage all day about the track of Hurricane Irene, posed to threaten the New York area beginning later tonight and into tomorrow, and I was getting a little restless. I appreciate the dangers of th...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Aug 27, 2011, 9:28 am
It's muggy this morning. Manhattan feels like an island. "Hurricane Condition - "Park Closed Today." Washington Square Park. The scene in Washington Square Park looked fairly typical for a late summer morning, except for the signs. A few people took their dogs for a stroll. Several homeless peo...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Aug 26, 2011, 4:26 pm
Update: 9:21 p.m. The Port Authority says all airports in the NYC region will be closed to arrivals at noon on Saturday. Most departures are being cancelled. Update: 7:49 p.m. Several people are reporting on Twitter that the line at Trader Joe's wine store is really long. Update: 7:48 p.m. Most ever...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Aug 17, 2011, 8:59 am
The phenomenal popularity of the High Line on the West Side has no doubt introduced many visitors to the pleasures of Chelsea, the multifaceted eclectic neighborhood that stretches out below. On the west side of the rails, between W. 13th and W. 29th or so, the Chelsea Gallery District is home...
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Teri Tynes posted an article on Walking Off the Big Apple - Aug 10, 2011, 8:13 am
Standard and Poor's downgrading of the credit rating of the United States sent enough shock waves through the global financial markets early this week that a morning walk to its headquarters at 55 Water Street seemed like a good idea. The corporate building that houses the firm, built in 1972 by Eme...
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