Weekend, July 3-4, 2021 – REMEMBER WHEN NEON WAS KING BEFORE L.E.D. LIGHTS

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Celebrating

our 4th of July

Weekend

JULY 3-4, 2021

OUR 406 TH EDITION

CELEBRATING

NEW YORK’S 

CLASSIC NEON SIGNS

Our favorite spot after a long “F” train ride to Coney Island

The deli is closed, but the sign will hopefully be preserved at 34th and Second.

A quick hot dog and orange drink!  A fast feast!

Always it opposite Macy’s on Seventh!

Times Square, the place NYC residents avoid

Just out my window!

OKAY!! It is in Jersey City

IT WAS REMOVED A FEW YEARS AGO, ALONG THE HIGHWAY IN BROOKLYN

Remember Bernadette Castro opening the bed?

Corned beef on rye.  Send a salami to a soldier overseas!

WEEKEND PHOTO OF THE DAY
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FRIDAY PHOTO OF THE DAY

GROUP OF FOUR TREES

BY JEAN DU BUFFET

LAURA HUSSEY, LINDA BECKER & ED LITCHER 
GOT IT RIGHT

In 1969, David Rockefeller commissioned Jean Dubuffet to create a sculpture to be placed in front of the Chase Manhattan Building . The sculpture, Group of Four Trees, towers above the visitor in varying heights, in Dubuffet’s signature loopy, childlike style. It feels as if you are almost walking into a children’s coloring book, with uncolored trees leaping from the pages and growing above you. A fantasy contrast before entering a staunch financial institution! This coloring book effect is seemingly what Dubuffet intended, calling them not sculptures but drawings, which extend and expand into space.

Text by Judith Berdy
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Edited by  Deborah Dorff
Roosevelt Island Historical Society

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