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Seen from the Battery Roof-top Garden
Battery Roof-top Garden is definitiely a garden room with a view. The gardener looks down on the Statue of Liberty (physically, that is, but with the utmost awe and respect): The Statue is...
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Contrast
We all know what a powerful thing it is to take man out of the city and into nature. When an urban hipster – adapted to the ecological and cultural niche of Chelsea or Greenpoint – spends a week in...
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Finally, a professional
BRTG hosted an event recently where the sponsor engaged Peter Doyle of Peter Doyle Photography to take photographs. With Peter’s permission I thought I would share some of his work with readers of...
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The Snow Storm
The National Weather Service and New York Times have authoritatively harrumphed that the recent winter storm does not in fact have a name, “Nemo” having been chosen for ratings purposes by those for...
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Tribute in Light
It is rare for a memorial to be perfectly calibrated to the nature of the tragedy it marks. The elegant Stone of Remembrance designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens for the British World War I cemeteries is a...
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