Over the past few days I’ve been exploring a little of the East Village, specifically St. Mark’s Place. It’s a jumble of CD stores, head shops, comic book shops, cafes and bars and regardless of what time you go it’s always crowded. After wandering around I started to feel as if my hood, the Upper West Side, seemed like remote parts of Kansas compared to this area. What a totally different scene and beat. I happened upon Mosaic Man. His current project was working on the base of a lamp post directly in front of Little Missionary’s Day Nursery that just happens to be the oldest, continuously operating non-sectarian nursery in New York City, providing quality childcare since 1896. Cool, huh? I must admit it is funny to write head shop and nursery in the same paragraph. 🙂
Meet Mosaic Man:
You should have seen it back in the day…In fact the city was totally different even 20 years ago. Times, they are a changin’.
Oh, I’m sure. Just like Scottsdale, Arizona. A very small little sleepy town when I moved there 25 years ago….now look at it. Small comparison to NYC, but you get the idea.