Greenwich Village, 3rd Street Between Sixth Avenue and McDougal Street

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Christmas at Ace Hardware. A little bit of Main Street on West 3rd Street. This shot was taken two years ago, December 2, 2006. See last night if you must know why.

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Greenwich Village, 3rd Street Between Sixth Avenue and McDougal Street

Let me explain. See, it's my computer. I finally called in a computer expert who worked and worked on it and then said those dreaded words: we need to clean it off and reload everything. BTW, this computer is not all that old: 2½ years. After he left, I spent a mighty long time copying files back, readjusting things, trying to get things back the way I wanted them, you know that drill. As a result of all this toil, there are many things that are better about this good as new computer, but one thing that isn't is that I can't upload photographs. It won't read my card reader and it won't read my camera. And yes, I reinstalled my camera driver.

And so that is why you are getting a two year old photograph instead of one from the photowalk I didn't take today because of staying home working on my computer.



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This is from a walk I took on December 2, 2006 on my way to a pottery show on Houston. Here is a sad story common in the restaurant business. We see the Grand Opening of Roll and Dough also known as Unique Pastries (based in Flushing, Queens) and the high ambitions of spreading bing across the land. Read about it in the New York Times. If you haven't the energy to read anything else (isn't this LONG ENOUGH already?), just know that they're little cheap, apparently tasty, Asian stuffed bready things. I can't be more specific because I don't have the energy either.

Anyway food bloggers seemed to like the place, but now it's Closed. And I missed it.

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Greenwich Village, 3rd Street Between Macdougal Street and Sixth Avenue

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I passed this up the first time I walked by, but coming back I couldn't resist, even though I've already shown you this colorful spot.

I'll NEVER finish this project if I keep being so undisciplined.

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Greenwich Village, 3rd Street Between Thompson and Sullivan Streets

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I tried to get this shot earlier, when I was walking the other way and just as I was about to press the button, a big truck pulled in. Trucks!

This is Il Mulino, looking like the old-time Village restaurant that it is. Oops, I just checked the web and it seems they opened in 1981. That doesn't quite qualify as old-time to me, although in restaurant time, it certainly is. They held the No. 1 Italian spot in Zagat's for years, but recently Babbo, that 10 year old upstart, has edged them out. I haven't eaten at Babbo, but I did have a wonderful meal at Il Mulino, luckily paid for by another (thanks, Mike!). It's dark and crowded, like an old-time Village restaurant and the food was wonderful and bounteous to a fault. One of my regrets in life is that I can't eat a lot. I need to be a much bigger person.

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Greenwich Village, 3rd Street Between Mercer Street and LaGuardia Place

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I am standing on 3rd Street shooting between two buildings at a building on 4th Street with other buildings in back of it probably on Washington Place. Just so you know. Just so you don't think it's a stage with a painted backdrop.

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Greenwich Village, 3rd Street Between Mercer Street and LaGuardia Place

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This is most likely the site of the underground power plant NYU is building. I only hesitate because the location isn't exact; it's being built under Mercer Street between 3rd and 4th Streets according to this article in The Observer. Not under 3rd Street between Mercer and LaGuardia. One more uncertainty to live with.

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Greenwich Village, 3rd Street Between Broadway and Mercer Street

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Here is the side of the Gristedes store coming back with no sun or shadow issues.

And another.



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Greenwich Village, 3rd Street at Mercer Street

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If I didn't know, I'd guess this was in Washington Heights, but, no, it's right here in Greenwich Village. And that's a Gristedes grocery store, in case you can't make out the sign.

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Greenwich Village, 3rd Street Between LaGuardia Place and Mercer

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Little blearly eyed here, having just come in from big birthday celebration, early big birthday celebration, since my birthday isn't until April 22. Let the festivities begin!

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Greenwich Village, 3rd Street Between LaGuardia Place and Mercer

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Cross the street and we're in another land, the land of NYU. This is the Bobst Library, built by Phillip Johnson in the early 70s. It sits on the entire block (or what would be the entire block, if Washington Square East went through), and we are at the back side. I said to myself, well this is sure a massive, cold and inhuman building, and lo and behold, some writers at the New York Architecture site agree, and more. Allen Salkin calls it an "Atrium of Horror" and adds that "Philip Johnson is the most overrated architect in the history of architecture and this red monstrosity of his proves it." And I hate to tell you what is said about Elmer Holmes Bobst. Just go there. Lots of pictures, too.

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Greenwich Village, 3rd Street Between Thompson Street and LaGuardia Place

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According to the mostly positive review in Time Out, live steel-drum trios will help you unwind at Negril Village. Sad to say, I've not been able to develop an appreciation for steel drums and so I will not be dining at Negril Village, handsome though its façade may be.

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Greenwich Village, 3rd Street Between Sullivan and Thompson Streets

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Oh, that car. A tenth of a second sooner … (I wish). On the other hand, praise be, it wasn't a tenth of a second later.

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Greenwich Village, 3rd Street Between Macdougal and Sullivan Streets

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First sign of spring on this Blog!

So sleepy . . .

Greenwich Village, 3rd Street Between Sixth Avenue and Macdougal Street

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I was on this block before, in December 2006, and I said then that it was a bonanza of photos. So here's another.

That's the Blue Note on the left, the famed jazz club. Pretty awful building, but what caught my eye was how the Benjamin Moore paint sign had the same colors as the Blue Note banner. As if coordinated.

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Greenwich Village, Third Street at Macdougal

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Well so much for establishing a new ritual. I woke up this morning to rain and forecast of rain all day. My miraculous electronic marvel of a camera cannot take rain. I did not get up, get out, and take some photographs, come home, select one, edit it, write it, all in time to leave at 4:30 for a New Year's Day party.

Perhaps the ritual will be that I'll say I'm going to do something and then not do it.

Here's a photograph from December 2. I hope to be in 2007 tomorrow but I can't promise. Happy New Year, ya'll.

Greenwich Village, Third Street Between Sixth Avenue and MacDougal

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Big guys with red hair wearing salmon pink sweatshirts have to expect to be photographed, and he must be used to it, as he paid me no mind while I walked around him and took five shots. Although, come to think of it, no one else did either.

This is the end of this happening little block. Third Street between MacDougal and Sullivan is pretty bland, the whole block being taken up by an NYU building, no shots there. Next up, Sullivan Street.

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Greenwich Village, Third Street Between Sixth Avenue and MacDougal Street

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I thought I was just shooting another Psychic Shop, but I got home to discover that I had shot the Village Psycho (enlarge to see), and not only that, if you look into the bottom of the left window, you can see the psycho himself, manipulating some poor wretch.

Actually, upon closer (closeup) scrutiny, I can see it's a TV screen, but still . . .

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Greenwich Village, Third Street Between Sixth Avenue and MacDougal Street

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Last Saturday I went down to the Clay Festival, a juried pottery show at St. Anthony's Church on Houston Street, where my friend, Myra Nissim had a table loaded with her beautiful bowls and jars. It was about 4:20, twilight, and a good time of day to be shooting. I walked across 3rd to Sullilvan Street and down to Houston. Third Street between Sixth and MacDougal was a bonanza of photos.

I had a hard time deciding whether or not to post this photo. I have a similar one I could have used which is better in one way but not as good in another. The problem with the one above is that it looks like a photograph of a restaurant; the restaurant sign is too prominent. Cropping didn't work. But I love the right side of it and hate to give it up. What I love are the different shades of red, magenta and orange next to the green door and the light in the staircase and the staircase itself. What I should do is go down there and take another photograph moving over to the right. But I don't have time tonight! Then what I should do is just not post it. But. . . What do you think? Should I have put the safer one up instead? Here it is to help you decide.



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