Sunday, July 25, 2010

 

BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS OF SPECIAL INTEREST: Recent articles of Union Square Interest, MetLife, the Florida Keys, Taghkanic and South Pacific

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(column on left) for the month & year of appearance.

Topics:
UNION SQUARE & COMPANY-- work in progress, constantly updated little lax now, keep searching month by month):
4/23/10 Preservationists' problems: Block Beautiful ,East 19th Street
12/31/09Bonb Iran proposal & Obama agenda reviewed
12/24/09News from Stuyvesant Square Park: East Midtown survives
12/17/09"Three cups of tea" policy & Afghanistan
12/9/09 Third Street Music School wonderful
11/26/09Rabbi Irving J. Block memorial lecture
11/22/09 Harvest in the Square\
11/19/09New York celebrates Yankee World Series
11/9/10/09 Saturday in the Union Squre Park with Tylon
11/5/09 Peoples Symphony concerts great
9/11/09 Muni-Parking painful
8/29/09 J. C. Penney's coming to NYC
8/21/09 Ray Roberts obituary
8/13/09 West African relief concert at Brotherhoood
7/30/09 New Department stores on Union Square - is the recession over?
7/10/09 The New York State Senate follies
5/2/09 Chrysler collapse drama
4/23/09 Earth Day
4/11/08 Health Insurance
4/9/09 Geen Motors collapse
3/36/09 Quo vadis. President Obama?
2/26/09 Stimulus.bailout and your coop
More to come, gimme time and air
12/24/08 How to be Governor David Paterson and keep friends-cont'd
10/9/08 John C, Angle, first president of Union Square BID
10/2/08 Edward K. Kane, a lawyer who gave back
9/18/08 Energy independence in NYS
9/11/08 Metro parking in NYC needs work
8/21/08 Gramercy Park -preservation of trees
8/16/08 Touring Bedpan Alley North
6/26/08 New Yprkers rate politicians, Presidents
5/15/08 Greenmarket revisited - restaurant eliminated
4/15/08 Goodbye, Greenmarket as we know it
4/10/08 Author meets severe critics at Strand
4/3/08 NYC still a good place to live
3/27/08 Obama answers questions, raises others
3/20/08 Eco and environmental solutions
3/6/08 Positive new foreign policy scenario offered
2/28/08 How to judge primary results
2/21/08 NY housingprices up, despite national slump
2/12/08 NYC housing prices still up, despite national slump
2/7/08 Pol news via FaceBook and spam
1/17/08 Get out and poll: everybody's an analyst
12/27/07 Visiting Upper West Side: Zabar's, B&B Bagels and such
12/15/07 Moslem women work for peace
11/28/07 Bloomberg for President?
11/21/07 Siena Survey of politicians' futures
11/15/07 74th AD clubs assess politicians' chances
11/7/07 Brotherhood Synagogue's Rabbi Irving Block memorial
11/1/07 The politics of watching World Series 2007
10/27/07 Set out and live - 14th St subway news updated
10/25/07 SUVs on 14th Street predict US economy
10/18/07 William Dean Dowells - our neighbor
9/27/07 Harvest in the Square - Union Square's County Fair
9/14/07 Get Out and live - 14th Street
9/6/07 Wathing thoroughbreds at Saratoga
8/16/07 Storm reveals NYC's vulnerabilities
8/9/07 Spitzer, Bloomberg on a learning curve
8/2/07 Stuyvesant Square Park, Harry Potter, Albania Mania
7/26/07 New noise laws
7/19/07 More about Stuyvesant Square
7/12/02 Beverly Sills; saving humanity
6/6/07 Sgt. Prpper 40 years old
5/31/07 Bloomberg running for President?
5/17/07 NY Street faits - enthnological, folkloric?
4/19/07 Is Police Academy leaving 20th St - again?
4/16/07 Bush - a negotiator?
4/5/07 Can Metropolitan Opera and the art form survive modernity?
3/15/07 Woody Allen's Annie hall is 30 years old
3/8/Bill Richardson for President?
3/1/07 How the Left feels - and whaqt of it
2/15/07 Union Square redesign - again
1/18/07 Mayor Bloomberg has the terrorists in his sights
1/11/07 NYS governors always speak well
1/4/07 Greetings - for better or verse
12/28/06 Step outside and into adventure - Roundabout Theatre
12/21/06 Ladies' Mile -a visit to 5th Avenue
11/2/06 Protecting the open spaces of Stuyvesant Town- Special Planned Community Preservation District proposal
10/25/06 Protecting the open spaces of Stuyvesant Town- Historic Places Designation proposal
10/18/06 Medical examiner Shiya Ribovsky writes of autopsies and 9/11/01
10/12/06 Foley, the Marines, and my country
10/5/06 After the Primary: Sylvia Friedman a Working Families candidate; Ohio strategy
9/28/06 Harvest in the Square -our county fair
9/21/06 Step outside and into adventure - bus ride to Javits
8/31/06 Union Square redesign - basics, compromises
8/22/06 Democratic rivalries for Primary day 9/2/2006
8/12 Con Edison problem s, solutions
7/28/06 Parkchester condos - a lesson for Stuyvesant Square/ Peter Cooper
6/29/09 Union Square redesign - back to the drawing board
6/23/06 Stories of Guardian Life,
6/2306 Union Square walking tour Parts 1-2-3, from June 1996
6/23/06 Metropolitan Life, New York Life, Guardian Life - histories
6/22/06 Judi Golden day at Brotherhood Synagogue
5/25/06 NY City and NY State politics revisited
5/9/06 Old scams never die - the Six Degrees of separation look-alike
4/26/06 Trader joe's Two-Buck-Chuck dazzles 14th Street
4/13/06 CB5 approves redesign of Noth End of Union Square
to be filled in - visit 3/06 and 2/06 sites, as accessible by clicking left margin
1/12/06 Sal Anthony's and Second Ave Deli are closing - who's next?
1/9/05 Match Point - a Dreiserian movie with added twist by Woody Allen
1/5/06 Step Outside - and Into Adventure: Giant Owl in Central Park
1/29/05 Step Outside - and into Adventure: Christmas in NYC, Fra Angelico
12/2/05 George T. Conklin Jr, Guardian Life CEO and former neighbor, dies at 90
11/17/05 Lorenzo da Ponte -our Mozart Connection revisited
11/3/05 Fearless Preditions of the 11/8 election in Manhattan
10/2/05 Step out of doors - and into advenure: Union Square
9/29/05 Harvest in the Square, New York's version of the County Fair
9/22/05 Viewing the Primary from 14th Street and 3rd Avenue
9/16/95 About the Primary, 9/11/WTC and New Orleans
8/30/05 A look at out local Republican neighbors
8/21/05 Park Towers Coop Annual Meeting Minutes
7/14/05 Lyme disease fells Wally Dobelis; dental advice
7/7/05 Small world - China, India, the Roosevelts
6/16/05 Good local people - CCS; Jack Bringmann; the passing of
Jeanne Tregre
6/9/05 Sidewalk cafes ; a pedestrian boulevard on 42nd Street; CB6
5/26/05 Dr. Paranoia is tired of bafflegab
5/19/05 NY Public Library trustees - some unkind thoughts about
5/12/05 For MetLife watchers - update and surmises
5/05/05 The new banking world and the cashless society
4/28/05 Secret and public Springtime pleasures in local parks
4/21/05 CB5 acts on street fairs and Union Square redesign
4/07/05 MTA, street fairs and licensing issues at CB6
3/24/05 New Takeout food resource, the Whole Foods Market
12/2/04 Neighbors remebered at Thanksgiving
11/4/04 Community Board 5 has a dream
9/30/04 Harvest in the Square Festival on Union Sq
9/23/04 Waterfront by Phillip Lopate
9/15/04 New restaurants
9/9/04 Union Square during Republican Convention
8/25/04 Stuyvesant Square Park
8/19/04 Local history Republicans should visit
7/30/04 CB 5 meeting
7/27/04 Roses are blooming in Stuy Square Park
7/17/04 Bank of the Metropolis building
7/1/04 CB 6 and the Zeckendorf Escalator
6/25/04 History of subway art
6/10/04 CB 5
6/3/04 CB 6
5/27/04 Intro to Community Boards
5/20/04 Brotherhood Synagogue 50 yrs
5/6/04 Book Row of America – 4th Avenue, part II
4/29/04 Book Row of America – 4th Avenue , part I
1/22/04 Oldtimer reflects on banks in the neighborhood
12/25/03 Big changes coming to Union Square
8/28/03 Workers tell Blackout stories
8/21/03 Escape from NY, a blackout story
9/17/99 Union Square Walking Tour – reprint of three 9/95 articles
Gramercy Park and Stuyvesant Square Walking Tours series will be posted when copies are located - keep checking

METLIFE STORIES
5/12/05 For MetLife watchers, some updates and surmises
2/17/05 Observations on MetLife/Travelers
and other mergers

TAGHKANIC
6/29/05 Association of Taghkanic Neighbors formed

PARK TOWERS
8/21/05 Park Towers Annual Meeting minutes


"A CONDO IN THE KEYS" - series, to come.....


To view our condo in MoonBay colony, Key Largo, open (or paste into your browser) http://www.floridakeysrentalsandsales.com/VacationRentalsCondos.htm#Weekly%20Condos to view the entire MoonBay . Click on Vacation Rentals, then MoonBay, then Unit B101, then pictures. Some unique aspects of this unit: note private garden, easy ground-floor access to private parking space, pool, tennis, and an easy walk to the marina (fabulous sunsets from the tiki hut). The unit particularly suitable for people with children and those with walking difficulties. A restaurant 100 yards away, also a nearby supermarket (one mile) and diving/snorkeling the John Pennekamp State park coral reefs (three miles).

For general and rental info call Barbara Wodka at Florida Keys Rentals & Sales Corp, 1-888/451-1050, cell phone 305/304-1160

Some of the articles (also in A Condo in Key Largo and The Prettiest Condo in Key Largo, separate blogs)
07/13/09 A Condo in Key Largo - Your boat in your Closet and Other Pleasures of the Simple Life
07/13/09 A Condo in Key Largo - 1350 miles staight down I-95
3/9/09 Kayaking through the mangroves and other sagas of Florida Keys
12/22/04 Florida Keys - an excellent place for your health

"TALES OF AUSTRALIA, SOUTH PACIFIC and MEZOAMERICA" series - incomplete
1/18/04 Small Fiji island welcomes you
1/8/04 Visiting Vanu Atu -continued
12/17 /03 A tour of paradise in South Pacific (Vanu Atu)
2/20/01 Holiday shopping in Melbourne, Australia
12/13/01 Visiting Alice Springs, in the center of Australia

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