It's not like I have any shortage of images to fit a blue theme, but as I searched through the images, this one stuck out -- just as it did when I first saw it in the West Village.
And no, I never did get to see Nicole Kidman's bare behind on Broadway, even though that was back when I loved going to plays and musicals with movie stars in them.
When I realized it was Bastille Day, I knew this restaurant would have the flags out. After all, it is the Paris Commune -- and they honored America 10 days earlier.
It was the two-tone brickwork, the "Hugh King & Co." wordmark across the top and the faded lettering between the windows on the left side that prompted me to stop and take a photo of this building. Curious as to why Hugh King was so important, I did some quick internet research on the building and found its interesting history. But that doesn't even include its star turn as the home for "Real World: Back to New York" in 2001. It's now available for events.
Just another typical building history in New York.
Three hundred more days to go!
I've really taken to the walk up Hudson Street to get to work. I get to pass some of my favorite bars, including the White Horse. It's where Kerouac and Dylan Thomas drank, it's where I saw Michael Imperioli one ridiculously hot summer afternoon, and it's one of the bars we hit on my bachelor party pub crawl -- after 20 minutes wandering around the Village trying to find it because we'd been to a few places already, and we were all confused by the angled streets.
