I have added my small collection of vintage postcards of The Upper East Side to the “Pictures of the Upper East Side” section. Click on the “Postcards” link in the sidebar to see the fronts and backs of more postcards.

Photos by Rebs

The 63rd Annual Park Avenue Christmas Tree Lighting took place tonight outside of The Brick Presbyterian Church on 91st Street. Having somehow never attended or even bumped into one of these ceremonies in my twenty-five years here, I never realized that the trees along the Park Avenue meridian are actually all “Christmas Trees.” Will I look at them a little differently now? Maybe. It’s one of those Platonic/ontological mysteries.

Right now there is a different kind of flower but I usually remember tulips.
I have a system for walking from point A to point B in Manhattan - its goals are to save time and distance. However, I recently implemented an exception to my usual rules.
In the old days, when I would approach a […]

As I was saying, I saw this car last night parked in the 80’s between Madison and Fifth, prompting this train of thought:
Someone once suggeseted in one of my classes at art school that in our consumer culture we only have the illusion of choice when it comes to what we consume. This is […]

If decadence ever needed a visual symbol, this is it:

Apparently the obscene over-development of these decorative cabbages has not caught the attention of the usually diligent and caring gardeners who design and tend to the flower boxes and plants in the neighborhood. After last night’s freeze the actual drying and wilting of these plants will […]

During high school, as I was becoming acquainted with the downtown music and art scenes, I was embarrassed to tell people I was from the Upper East Side- even more embarrassed to tell them I went to Dalton. However, after four years of living downtown near college I became sick of the […]