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.
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Gates-colored "Green
Book"
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The
Green? Gates
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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.
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Potholes
on West 78th
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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.
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Apthorp
(diagonally across from the W78th potholes and Beresford on
Central Park West (where Jerry Seinfeld and now, falcons, reside)
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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.
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Beresford
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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.
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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.
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Central
Park at 81st Street, across from Beresford.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The
Twin Towers would have been seen from this spot -- West Side Highway
below 23rd Street.
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The
newly rebuilt 47 World Trade Center building.
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