Tag: robert beck

People carried their dogs, sometimes one under each arm. It was still cold and blowing.

They call them cookies, but they’re sure not like anything that came out of my mother’s oven.

When people heave a large dog onto Santa’s legs, it often lands on his beard, which is attached to his ears.  It becomes a situation. 

If you are going to talk pizza, you start with New York slice shops.

Or jonesing for onion soup and pâté. I could live on their bread and butter.

I’m sad to see the ABC building go, with its street-level windows that let people outside see the anchors presenting the news.

I've come across some remarkably primitive sights in our sophisticated neighborhood, but for the most part, they are human stories and generous people.

I appreciated her uplifting, positive persona, and how difficult it must be to stand perfectly still amidst all the distractions.

Each column contains a slice of the UWS. I love the challenge, the being there, the watching it come off my fingers.

In his West Side Canvas paintings and essays, Robert Beck captures the "here and now" of life in the neighborhood.

I’m not fond of cocktail glasses with a cone-shaped bowl on a stem. I don’t want to pay that much attention to not spilling.

As a kid, I loved buses.

His ballwork was legendary and he knew precisely when somebody needed to have a dog lean against them.

The Columbus Avenue Pioneer opened for business in 1959, which is closer to the 1800s than it is to today.

As the pace ramped up, everybody worked around me like I was part of the architecture.

Nobody is immune from a twist of fate that puts them on the outside, with no way back without help.

To be classified as a “diner,” you need the large, multi-page menu describing the Great American Foodbook.

Inside Epices Bakery with Robert Beck.

The chapels are called the Seven Chapels of the Tongues because they are dedicated to non-English-speaking persons.

It’s commonly the case that the larger the organization I approach to paint, the greater the odds of encountering some...roadblock.