Bowling Green, at the foot of Broadway in Lower Manhattan, is the oldest public park in New York City, built in 1733. At its northern end is the Charging Bull sculpture, at the south is the Alexander Graham Custom House, which now hosts the happy New York branch of the Smithsonian Institute and NYC's less jolly Bankruptcy Court.
Wednesday I took a stroll down to the tip of the island, and captured a few of the iconic images in and around Bowling Green, which is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
Alexander Graham U.S. Custom House, completed 1907.
1 Broadway, former office building formerly known as United States Lines-Panama Pacific Lines Building, completed 1884. (Today, Citibank and an attorney practice.)
26 Broadway, the majestic, novel Standard Oil Company Building, completed 1928.
Charging Bull, 7,100 pounds of bronze muscle, installed 1989.
And of course, how could we forget Wall Street icon SpongeBob Squarepants, who first aired on Nickelodeon in 1999.
Above, Lady Liberty is none too amused when I try to take her picture before she's officially on duty... She then gathers her things: sunblock, sunglasses, make-up bag, cigarettes and a small flask of booze... And to my astonishment boards the Statue Cruises boat with all of the tourists...
Thirty minutes later, standing tall, as her workday begins. Who knew?!!
Wednesday evening I ventured to the nabe surrounding Grand Central Station for a freelance bio interview. Digital recorder, check... digital SLR camera, fun HDR editing software, you know it... If you're gonna get drenched, you might as well have a couple shits and giggles along the way.
I've had the best possible reason to return to the southern tip of Manhattan in the last couple days, following previous posts covering Trinity Church and Bowling Green: It's work, cool cats! I'm delivering written content for a soon-to-launch webbie that not only has great potential, but focuses on one of the great loves of my life: New York City. Nothing more to say for now... so let's return to the Trinity memorial park. Last post was on the south side of the historic church; now we shift to the north.
Friday was that kind of day that makes you think spring might actually endure in New York City... though of course any longtime resident knows it doesn't truly remain warm here until well after Memorial Day.
Wednesday evening's launch event for travel webbie MetroGuest.com, a community in which 
property owners link with potential guests, was quite a win. Sponsors included tasty, just-released Balls Vodka—ripe for an endless array of ribald jokes—as well 
as catering by Thomas Preti (five spice chicken in Wonton cups=good god almighty good), Hint Water—another sugar-free, all natural, organic flavored bev (blackberry, ewww)—and, oddly, SecureWrap, a tamper-proof luggage bag wrapper.
