Boulevard Encore, Broadway
By Claudie Benjamin Abundance is unmistakable at the Morton Williams at 2015 Broadway as it is at all 17 Morton Williams supermarkets in the New York metropolitan area. The array of fresh fruit, vegetables, canned, frozen, and boxed foods, along with...
Boulevard Encore, Broadway
By Claudie Benjamin Some older New Yorkers may remember the first modest beginnings of Pottery Barn in 1949. Early on, the threadbare store was on Tenth Avenue and 19th Street. Pottery was then sold in crates. There were no shelves. Somewhat...
Boulevard Encore, Broadway
By Claudie Benjamin Breathe in…ahhh…that fresh air! But, is it clean? Likely not. Daily air quality indexes on the Upper West Side, for example, can range in the “poor” toxic levels. More specifically, for example, on October 19 the...
Boulevard Encore, Broadway
By Claudie Benjamin The policy of the AMC 13 Lincoln Square movie theater at 1998 Broadway is clear and familiar to theatergoers: “Smoking is prohibited within the theatre, including auditoriums and common areas. This includes vapors, e-cigarettes, and any...
Boulevard Encore, Broadway
By Claudie Benjamin Recently, in Paris, a customer left Shakespeare and Company, the iconic bookstore, and right out front filled her water tumbler straight from one of the multitude of elaborately ornamented 19th-century “Wallace” water fountains on the...
Boulevard Encore, Broadway
By Claudie Benjamin Having abundant green personal space along with a view on the UWS has long come at a price. But, yes, it does promise to make daily life better. QG Floral and Landscape’s call-waiting message puts green/grass desirability this way:...
Boulevard Encore, Broadway
By Claudie Benjamin When Jill Gill talks about her past 70 years as an artist and urban observer, she says she sees both the past and present at the same time. Among the most startling differences reflected when comparing her more than a hundred street scenes with the...
Boulevard Encore, Broadway
By Claudie Benjamin July 13, 2017: Alex Elting, then living on the Upper West Side, caught a dramatic moment on his cell when he videotaped the billows of black smoke and flames rising from a manhole fire at Sherman Square at 71st Street just...
Boulevard Encore, Broadway
By Claudie Benjamin Aqua fitness training goes by many names. But, the bottom line is that whether you are very fit or adapting to living with a brand new knee, Aqua can only make you stronger and more confident in both how you look and feel, according to Anne Peyton...
