Nolita, Spring Street Between Mulberry and Lafayette Streets

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Last night's post began the walk back from 11 Spring Street. I guess you'd say Spring Street begins at the Bowery, since the numbers start there and get higher as you go West where it ends at West Street at the river. Shouldn't it start at the river and go inland?

Here is Spring Street at Lafayette.

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Nolita, Spring Street Between Mott and Mulberry Streets

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Hope everyone's Christmas and/or day off was splendid. As my Jewish boss said, it's always good to be away from work.

Now, we must return to Nolita to finish the walk of December 17. And we must finish before the New Year. Herewith, 34 Spring Street with matching van. I wish I could make out what the plaque says, but even with it enlarged, I could only read New York City. Of course, I'm making a note to go back and read it. Of course.

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Nolita, Elizabeth and Spring Streets

I am so frustrated. I have been trying to get this post up for an hour and a half and I have to give up now getting it the way I want it. We are missing the first two photographs. I'll try again tomorrow. In the meantime, here are the last two.





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Here it is, 11 Spring Street. Go to The New York Times for a good article. Briefly, this building has been a canvas for street art for quite a while, then the building was sold to be made into condos, but the new owners were sympathetic to the art, they invited internationally known street artists to come paint the five floors inside, and then they opened it to the public Friday through Sunday. Then, Monday, the inside was to be covered with drywall where it will be preserved in a "time capsule." So, what a happy story, yes?

The first photograph is at the front of the building on Elizabeth Street (you'll see the long shot tomorrow), and the second one is on the side on Spring Street.

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Nolita, Spring Street Between Lafayette and Mulberry Streets

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Something new for the blog! You may have noticed that I don't do events; no Halloween or Thanksgiving parade, no Rockefeller Center Christmas tree. If I went to one of those things, I'd photograph it, but I don't usually do things like that. But I did go to an event Sunday and now you're going to see it. I'm fairly excited about this unusual timeliness.

This photograph sets the stage: we're in Nolita. No-lee-ta. Once upon a time in a land called Nolita, there lived a group of people who seemed strangely unaware of Christmas. In fact, although someone had put a little tree in the window of Gatsby's Lounge Bar & Grill, no one seemed to know what it was for and they simply shrugged their shoulders and went on shopping and talking on their cell phones . . .

This is actually true. That little tree is pretty much it for any signs of Christmas on the entire length of Spring Street in Nolita.

But I digress. Tomorrow night I'm jumping ahead to shots of 11 Spring Street, only 3 days after the actual event. Later, I'll come back and show you some photos taken on the way there. I'm a bit breathless at this deviation from routine.

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