Walking Off the Big Apple
Blog URL http://www.walkingoffthebigapple.com
Located New York, New York USA
Tags New York City, walking, culture, Manhattan, arts, neighborhoods, architecture, photography, geography
Walking guide to New York City with itineraries, maps and commentary on art, New Yorkers, neighborhoods, cuisine, architecture, and culture. The site offers off-the-beaten path advice about contemporary New York.
Latest Blog Posts
- An Unofficial Guide to Macy's New Thanksgiving Day Parade Route on Nov 24, 2009 in New York maps Thanksgiving Day Parade walking architecture Thanksgiving
After 82 years, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thursday, November 26, 2009 will be following a new route through Manhattan. A major reason for the change has to do with the city's recent experiments along Broadway to make the thoroughfare more...
- Night Falls on the City: The View from the Brooklyn Bridge on Nov 22, 2009 in New York Brooklyn Bridge Brooklyn Manhattan
During those liminal moments after the sun sets but before the night has muted the clarity of day, the landscape veers off into abstraction. It's the golden hour, a mystical time favored by visual artists. Familiar sights gradually lose detail, givin...
- A Cultural Guide to West 57th Street: A Walk and a Map on Nov 20, 2009 in Midtown Manhattan W. 57th Street Carnegie Hall art artists Beaux Arts shopping music architecture neighborhoods musicians cuisine galleries
It began in 1891 with the opening of Carnegie Hall, the symbol of music world success that Andrew Carnegie paid people to construct on 7th Avenue between West 57th and West 56th Streets. A year later, the Art Students League moved into the new Americ...
- An Early Morning Walk in the East Village on Nov 17, 2009 in New York walking dogs East Village
Sometimes it's not about where to walk but when. Certain hours of the day carry with them their own qualities, and strange as it may sound, I am fond of the quiet mystery of the early morning. Just before sunrise the day has not yet lost its patina o...
- A Literary Holiday Gift Guide: Best New Books on New York, New York on Nov 15, 2009 in writers New York bookstores books history lists
Not surprisingly, New York as a subject generates a lot of books. Each year the shelves in the New York section of bookstores become overcrowded with new books about the city, each one adding something different to a vast body of city literature. Thi...
- Shopping for Dinner at the Union Square Greenmarket: A Slideshow of Seasonal Bounty on Nov 12, 2009 in New York greenmarket cuisiine shopping Union Square food
Walking through the Union Square Greenmarket, I often feel like such an amateur. Dumfounded by the varieties of potatoes, rutabagas, turnips, squash, or heirloom tomatoes on display and what to do with them, I often beat a retreat to the bakery stand...
- A Walk to See Carl Jung's Red Book: A Journey Into the Psyche on Nov 10, 2009 in New York Rubin Museum of Art artists Carl Jung museums
Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung (July 1875 – June 1961) embarked on an extraordinary journey in the years before World War I, a dangerous adventure that took him inward to the deepest recesses of his psyche. At the time he embarked on the journey he h...
