FEBRUARY
26, 2006 --
LPR
was at Keenan's, on upper Manhattan (Broadway and 204th Street),
to catch The Blisstones (Laura Fay
Lewis, founder, and Michael Aguirre at this appearance).
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The
Blisstones performing at Keenan's on February 26.
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The
Blisstones - featuring Laura Fay Lewis and Michael
Aguirre.
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LPR
snapped this shot of the inside of Keenan's, located
at Broadway and 204th Street.
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Outside
view of Keenan's, located at Broadway and 204th Street.
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Keenan's
usually has entertainment on
Monday and Tuesday evenings. The Blisstones were part of a promotional evening,
and were well-received by the crowd. Their next appearance is at the Hunter
College Cabaret for Peace and
Justice, March 8 at 6.30 PM.
For more on The Blisstones, please click www.theblisstones.com
Keenan's is located just a few blocks north of Dyckman Street. Diagonally across
Broadway from Keenan's is the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, a building that goes
back to the 1780s.
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The
Dyckman House.
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Across the Harlem
River, in The Bronx, at 161st Street and River Avenue, is Yankee
Stadium. (To get there from Keenan's take the Harlem River Drive
to 155th Street, and turn left.)
LPR heard a report last week, that another local body has approved a new
ballpark and the matter is now before the City Council, where approval is expected
-- with construction to begin this spring.
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Potential
site of the new Yankee Stadium.
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The
new ballpark (that LPR believes, cannot be called "The House
that Ruth Built") will be on a site just north of Yankee Stadium,
now comprising a park with recreational facilities, including a quarter-mile
track, popular with local residents; tennis courts and swimming pool.
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A
different view of the new Yankee Stadium site.
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February 24th
LPR was on Lexington Avenue, getting film developed at G&R Photo,
between 83rd and 84th streets. Walking to a candy shop on the east
side of Lex, between 85th and 86th, LPR saw that the shop was closed,
along with most the shops on this side of Lexington Avenue: the obvious
indication that the existing buildings are coming down for a new
one.
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This
photo, of the east side of Lexington Avenue looking toward
86th Street from 85th Street, was taken on February 24,
without knowledge that the New York Sun, February 28,
would report about the looming change and publish a photo
of the site from 86th Street, looking south.
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Please, then,
note the photo of this Lexington Avenue location. It will not look
like this, for long. And, indeed, the area above Yankee Stadium will
not look like that for long, either.
A few weeks ago, LPR was in Winsted, CT, which is seeking a new town manager.
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City
Hall located on Main Street in Winsted, Connecticut
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Looking
west on Route 44, also known as Main Street, in Winsted,
Connecticut.
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LPR took a
couple of photos of Main Street, to post for the benefit of applicants
who perhaps have not yet visited Winsted.
LPR has not heard of plans to demolish the buildings on Main Street, shown
here. Not yet, at least.
And in the northern part of Manhattan, the Dyckman House seems safe -- for
now.
Change, of
course, is often defended as progress. LPR now understands how
change can also lead to a certain sense of estrangement. The
more things change the greater the estrangement?
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