A few images from a late-winter walk down a section of Broadway on New York’s Upper West Side can be a real ‘variety show!’
The first image above, to which the yellow ‘cuffs’ add a touch of unintended kink is part of a memorial to Isidor and Ida Straus. They lived nearby, he was the owner of Macy’s, and they died together on the Titanic. The statue is by Augustus Lukeman.
Just a bit down, a fairly mundane building, possibly once a theatre, has a lovely pediment in surprisingly-surviving color.
And a bit of Omar Khayyam-style amusement.
This one was and is a theatre, though presently without a tenant or shows. But the art hangs on.
A testament to urban mobility at a discount store with an entire fleet of stuff-carriers for New Yorkers on the move or headed for the store.
And, at the 96th Street subway station, a Great Black Duck.
