Life in a Northern Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. B.M.A.T.C., and Etruscan typewriter erasers. Blogged by David Gorsline.
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Jim Naureckas gives virtual walking tours of New York streets, block by block, in an information-dense, text-and-tables format. Here's the north side of the block of East 10th Street (slightly edited for format) where I lived the summer of my internship:
Corner (35 5th Ave): Rubin Hall: This NYU dorm (acquired by the school in 1964) was built in 1925 as the Grosvenor Hotel. It was the most expensive hotel in New York City south of 28th Street in 1939 (according to the WPA Guide), with rooms starting from $4 a night. Novelist Willa Cather lived here from 1927 to 1932, but Mark Twain, who died in 1910, never did—NYU's claims to the contrary. This was the dorm (at least in exterior shots) of the title character of the TV show Felicity.
7: Bronfman Center: NYU's Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life has amazing teakwood bay windows; Lockwood De Forest, artist who worked in teak, lived in and built this 1887 house. 9: More teakwood on a house designed by James Renwick's firm (1888). Novelist Dawn Powell lived here 1931-42, where she wrote Turn, Magic Wheel, The Happy Island, Angels on Toast and A Time to Be Born, and began My Home Is Far Away. 15: Mayfield, a 1920s "collegiate Georgian" building. 21 (corner): University House, neo-Renaissance apartments built in 1923 as The Wordsworth, is home to Spice, styley Thai. Perfect Storm author Sebastian Junger is said to have lived here. It was also where Ann Sothern's character lived in The Ann Sothern Show, which ran from 1958-61. (Thanks to Leta.) posted: 6:17:37 PM |
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I don't follow college sports very much, at least the pastimes that are nationally televised. The money sports at the money schools—we should just admit that these are semi-professional farm clubs for the NFL and NBA and be done with it. (And don't get me started on corporate sponsorship and the sale of naming rights.) Rather, let's put in a cheer for the athletes in low-profile sports, ones that are just as physically and mentally demanding. Like Northwestern's fashion-insensitive championship lacrosse team. When football bowl season comes along, I'm usually pointing out that my schools (NU and the University of Pennsylvania) are concerned with producing and recruiting more Nobel laureates than H-backs (though academic prize accounting is fraught with its own problems). So it's an infrequent hypocrisy of mine to wave the purple and white when NU is in a bowl game, even one of the minor consolation prize games. Go Wildcats! And I hope to tune in to get a look at Texas Tech's extreme-offense style of play in the Cotton Bowl. posted: 3:00:14 PM |
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