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I've really never gotten the hang of Queens, nor understood why people want to live there. But this year I've found some pretty nice places in NYC's most confusing borough...and about a month ago, a convenient excuse to check out more of it sort of fell into my lap. So here is Astoria Park, a small park that's my kind of park, because it is right ( Read more... )

Did you know: David Byrne, best known as the lead singer of the Talking Heads, is curating an unusual art exhibit at the Battery Maritime Building, an abandoned ferry terminal adjacent to where the Staten Island Ferry docks in Manhattan.


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Now that summer is (unofficially) here and everything is in bloom, I went back to Central Park and explored along the northern edge and the east side. (The first part of my Central Park journey, from March 24, can be found here: http://herb-lehman.livejournal.com/ ( Read more... )

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My entries here are becoming weirder and weirder. Fear not, the next one coming after this is even more random.


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