Forest Street, Hartford CT

Harriet Beecher Stowe lived here:

at THE MET Breuer

in the NYTimes

Diane Arbus in the beginning

in the NYPost

Diane Arbus in the NYPost

Empty snack bar, NYC, 1957

Girl with a pointy hood and white schoolbag at the curb, N.Y.C., 1957

Old woman with hands raised in the ocean, Coney Island, N.Y., 1960

How Diane Arbus Became ‘Arbus’  in the NYTimes

The Diane Arbus You’ve Never Seen  in the NYTimes

The Hallett Nature Sanctuary in Central Park

in the NYTimes

at the Central Park Conservancy

The day was unbearably hot and humid and some of the climbs were steep. But, as I walked the sun peeked through the trees and a gorgeous purple cast appeared over the path. 

Al Capone's Early Life in NYC

in the NYPost

Church of St. Michael and St. Edward, Edwards Street 

 P.S. 133, 610 Baltic Street

Brownstone Bagel and Bread Company, 671 Union Street at Fourth Avenue

Garfield Place between Fourth and Fifth Avenues 

St. Mary Star of the Sea Church, 467 Court Street

The Chief Carver on Mount Rushmore

the website

the Luigi Del Bianco memorial

And this is 68 North Regent St. Port Chester, NY:

Walking Main Street in Kingston, NH

about Josiah Bartlett

The Josiah Bartlett House:

Walking Main Street: 

Boarded Up on Lucy Avenue

in The Commercial Appeal

The boarded up house at 406 Lucy, the former home of soul singer Aretha Franklin, has been saved from the wrecking ball for now.

Also boarded up on Lucy Avenue in Memphis: 

A Town For What It Could Be

at CBS Evening News of July 1, 2016

from CBS Evening News: "Fortunately, one man's wasteland is another woman's blank slate."

 "I just felt that it was a space to build and do things on," resident Shamayim Harris told CBS News. "I don't have anything in urban planning except for sitting on this porch conjuring up what I want to do on this block, that's it." --- Shamayim Harris


This is Highland Park, Michigan.  It is soon to be Avalon Street's "then..." and I cannot wait to see the result of what this strong, magnificent, and admirable woman, Shamayim Harris, and her team of volunteers makes a "now!"

49 Buffum Street, An Historic Buffalo Home

at NYSUT UNITED

at Buffalo Rising

a tribute to Norman Rockwell