Sidewalk Rating: Melancholy
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As I said, I am strongly drawn to old churches. I am also strongly drawn to old hotels. I am also strongly drawn to old restaurants, old saloons, old tenement houses, old police stations, old courthouses, old newspaper plants, old banks, and old skyscrapers. I am also strongly drawn to old piers and old ferryhouses and to the waterfront in general. I am also strongly drawn to old markets and most strongly to the Fulton Fish Market. I am also strongly drawn to a dozen or so old buildings, most of them on lower Broadway or on Fifth and Sixth Avenues in the Twenties and Thirties, that once were department-store buildings and then became loft buildings or warehouses when the stores, some famous and greatly respected and even loved in their time and now almost completely forgotten, either went out of business or moved into new buildings farther uptown.[Joseph Mitchell, from the New Yorker.]
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| [The stack of old tires outside the One On One bike studio.] |
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“There’s an embarrassment factor to know ‘I was on the phone and I hit a human being,’” Kelly said. “In that instant, they’re so mortified that they just want to get away from it.”
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Not everyone here is happy, however. Like the blonde who totters in on her stiletto heels to loudly ask, "You have coffee?"
"Regular?" says the waiter, grabbing a cup.
"Just regular? You don't have lattes, cappuccino, espresso?" She squints for several seconds at the coffee pots on their hot plates and then points a lacquer-tipped finger at them. "Is that the regular coffee?"
"That's coffee," the waiter says.
"What does 'regular' mean?"
"Milk and sugar."
"Oh," says the blonde, "no, no." She walks out empty-handed. She doesn't even look at the knock-off cronut.]
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