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Miles from the Mainstream
D. R. ZUKERMAN, proprietor
New York, New York

JUNE 12, 2006 --

LPR picked up a copy of the city's official directory, last Friday, at the Municipal Building, across from City Hall.

The directory is called "The Green Book"
because the color of its cover is... green.

This year, however, the cover of "The Green Book" is orange- - apparently to honor "The Gates" the orange (okay, saffron) artwork that abounded in Central Park, 16 months ago.

Gates-colored "Green Book"

The Green? Gates

LPR reminds its clicksters of the color of "The Gates" in the accompanying photo, taken on the park's west drive during this Christo and Jeanne-Claude work of art.

Potholes on West 78th


It is not LPR's intention to be a pothole scold, but you take your potholes where you find them, and the accompanying photo shows potholes on West 78th Street, diagonally across from the Apthorp, which, unusual for a prestigious New York address, fronts on Broadway and extends to West End Avenue,
between 79th and 78th Streets.

Apthorp (diagonally across from the W78th potholes and Beresford on Central Park West (where Jerry Seinfeld and now, falcons, reside)

A few blocks east, on Central Park West, between 81st and 82nd Street is the Beresford which was in the news last week because the red-tailed hawk couple that had resided on Fifth Avenue chose to move their nest to the Beresford, home to such other celebrities as Jerry Seinfeld and Beverly Sills.

Beresford


Here's another view of the Beresford at 81st Street with the towers of the El Dorado at 90th Street visible up the road. Trees of Central Park are on the
right. Trees at left are on the site of Hayden's Planetarium.

The accompanying photo, showing the Beresford fronting on Central Park West, includes, in the distance, a glimpse of the towers of the El Dorado, at 90th Street.

Central Park at 81st Street, across from Beresford.

The Beresford is opposite a park entrance, at 81st Street, that leads to the Delacorte Theater, which, this summer, offers Macbeth, with Liev Schreiber in
the title role, and Mother Courage, starring Meryl Streep.

Lieve Schreiber will appear in Macbeth in Central Park this summer -- and, of course he is in the new version of "The Omen." LPR took this photo one rainy night summer of 2003 when he played Henry V.
Mr. Schreiber had the title role of Henry V,
at the Delacorte, in 2003. The accompanying photo was taken of Mr. Schreiber one rainy evening as he was
leaving the the Delacorte. (This writer liked the production and Mr. Schreiber's dynamic performance very much.)

Meryl Street appeared last at the Delacorte the summer of 2001, in "The Seagull," the production that attracted an all-night ticket line to Central Park West, opposite the Beresford. (The line was moved out of the park at 1:00 A.M., and returned to the park at 6:00 A.M. This writer's photos of that innocent time were published in The Voice, (not The Village Voice), as free weekly that once was distributed in the northwest corner of Connecticut, and contiguous spots in
Massachusetts and New York.)

The Seagull cast included Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kevin Kline, Christopher Walken, John Goodman, and Natalie
Portman. Sixteen days after this popular production ended its Central Park run, the Twin Towers were brutally taken from us, with the lives of nearly 3,000 people.

LPR continues to believe that construction on the site of the Twin Towers is not the appropriate way to respect hallowed ground.

The Twin Towers would have been seen from this spot -- West Side Highway below 23rd Street.

The newly rebuilt 47 World Trade Center building.