{"id":5,"date":"2006-03-17T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-17T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/?p=5"},"modified":"2006-03-17T13:25:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-17T13:25:00","slug":"manhattanbrooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/manhattanbrooklyn\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan\/Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">Apparently a sidewalk shed is going up around St. Brigid&#8217;s church on Avenue B. Is demolition imminent? See earlier post: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadfood.com\/Reviews\/Overview.aspx?RefID=2337\">Amsterdam\/New York<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I scouted an interior in the AT&amp;T building on lower Sixth Avenue, an art deco behemoth, monolithic, but well-detailed. I am most fond of the antennas on the roof, a new feature of the building, which have a Jetsons retro modern look. The lobby is classic deco with a giant tiled map of the world, and mosaics depicting the glory of telecommunications. The lobby can be visited without hindrance.<\/p>\n<p>Later I headed for DUMBO in Brooklyn to see a photograhy exhibit by my friend James Shanks. To get to his quiet, graphically precise work, I had to pass through a series of large prints by Seth Thompson. These colorful interiors of a Mexican village were marred by poor printing. They seemed overly saturated and harsh for the nature of the subject, and the prints were unnecessarily large.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nelsonhancockgallery.com\/\">Nelson Hancock Gallery<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We had dinner at nearby Grimaldi&#8217;s, a coal-fired oven pizza place of some reknown. Fortunately, we were early enough to beat the usual waiting in line out front. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadfood.com\/Reviews\/Overview.aspx?RefID=2337\">Grimaldi&#8217;s<\/a><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently a sidewalk shed is going up around St. Brigid&#8217;s church on Avenue B. Is demolition imminent? See earlier post: Amsterdam\/New York Yesterday, I scouted an interior in the AT&amp;T building on lower Sixth Avenue, an art deco behemoth, monolithic, but well-detailed. I am most fond of the antennas on the roof, a new feature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}