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Christmas is in the Eyes of the Beholders

December 2, 2007

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.

Rebecca Schiffman, Religion - 0 Comments


Stop and Smell the Tulips on the Park Avenue Meridian!

August 31, 2007

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 […]

Rebecca Schiffman, Uncategorized, environment, journal, local, meditation - 0 Comments


Charlotte Kidd writes about the huge flag on 1088 Park Ave.

October 23, 2006

Whenever I mention the building I grew up in, I invariably get, “Oooh, that’s the building with the flag” or “that’s a fucking big flag on that building.” It is. After September 11 and the proliferation of stars and stripes running up Park Avenue, any building without a flag was suspect in its lack of, […]

Architecture, local, meditation, politics - 3 Comments