Posts under ‘Greenwich Avenue’

A few years back my kids and I decided to write a Christmas ditty about the nouveau riche infesting our Greenwich. There was some promise in “Silver spoons. Silver spoons. It’s Christmastime on the Avenue.” But what we eventually came up with was to the tune of Jingle Bells, and it goes like this: Riding [...]

I was walking in downtown and a stranger asked me if he had to put money in the parking meters today. I didn’t know the answer.  Almost all the meters on the street had been fed.  But, after all, it is Veterans’ Day — a federal (but not national) holiday. Veterans’ Day is one of [...]