The NEW YORK CHRONICLES

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

REMEBERING ROBERTO ... ROBERTO CLEMENTE

GRAFFITI ART

photo Daniel Bellino Zwicke

Crosby Street .. New York, NY

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

THE WORLD'S SEXIEST WOMAN ... PENELOPE CRUZ

Peneolpe Cruz The Sexiest Woman alive ? Kim Kardashian couldn't even Shine Her Shoes! Some might pick another, Dayana Mendoza, this one that one and every other. Who knows. Yes this is very subjective, but I don't thing anyone would disagree that Penelope Cruz is if not The Sexiest Woman Alive and one of the World's most beautiful of women, that she is among the tops, but for this guy Penelope Cruz is thee Sexiest Woman on The Planet. Hell Yes! Did you ever see her in the wonderful Woody Allen movie Vicky Christina Barcelona? I rest my case. Dam was she Sexy, Sexy as Hell. On Fire. You couldn't get any Sexier than that. What you didn't see the movie? Are you hot blooded American man? Any man? You got to see this movie. It is without question one of the Sexiest Movies ever made, with some dam sexy women in it; Scarlett Johansson and the lovely vivacious Penelope Cruz persued by Javier Bardem. This movie is Hot with a capital H. i gotta hand it to Woody on this one. If anyone thought he lost it in the past several years, he didn't. This movie is Brilliant and Sexy as hell to boot. If you've seen it, you know what I mean. If you didn't, "What the Hell are you waiting for?" This is one of The Hottest Movies Ever Made. See it!

THE WORLD'S SEXIEST WOMAN

PENELOPE CRUZ

KIM KARDASHIAN COULDN'T SHINE HER SHOES

The Big Lebowski Cookbook

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Monday, April 9, 2012

THE WORLD'S COOLEST SKYSCRAPER

The CHRYSLER BUILDING at the corner of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue in New York City is without a doubt the Coolest Skyscraper in the World. Yes! Well some might debate this, most will agree. Just look at it! It's Gorgeous and there is no other building quite like it in the World, Art Deco in all its fabulous splendor. But no one ever made such a vast enormous massive Art Deco Piece such as this. No one has ever come close. Designed by William Van Alen with ideas from Walter Chrysler. The Chrysler Building was meant to be the Headquarters of The Chrysler Corporation. It never was. Never-the-less this Gorgeous piece of Art Deco Brilliance is the Zenith of This Art Form "Art Deco."

The Empire State Building is taller and exceedingly more famous, it is beautiful and majestic but just not as Cool as The Chrysler. And with the great Empire State Building, The Art Deco Marvel of The Chrysler Building and The Triangular Flat Iron Building, there is no city in the World that could ever dream of coming close to the Cool Collection of New York Skyscrapers. Nobody! No City!

Daniel Bellino Zwicke

photo Daniel Bellino Zwicke

Friday, April 6, 2012

NEW BOND GIRL ....TONIA SOTIROPOULOU

Yes we have a New Bond Girl for the 23rd Edition of The Beloved James Bond 007 movie genre. Beautiful Greek born actress Tonia Sotiropoulou has just been cast as the newest Bond Girl, a role many women dream of, few attain. Tonia said that the day she was cast was the happiest day of her life.

The biggest news of Skyfall is likely to anger and or disappoint many a Bond fan, with Agent 007 replacing his famous Shaken Not Stirred Martini with a bottle of Heineken. Yes, it's true, and with the Dutch Brewer reportingly forking over a reporter 45 Million Dollars for this major placement, it's no wonder producer Barbara Broccoli took the deal. $45,000,000 is nothing to sneeze at, even for the Great James Bond.

Co-Starring with Daniel Craig as James Bond and Tonia Sotiropoilou are veteran actors, Ralph Fiennes, Albert Finney, and Javier Bardem as the Villain and Judi Dench as M. Sam Mendes will direct.

The locations are always a big part of any Bond film and along with London, this film will be set in Surrey, England at a monastery-like building which is reportedly the manor house to be known as "Skyfall Lodge", the Bond family estate The site also included a chapel with a graveyard, and a third building with an unknown purpose. Other major locales are New Delhi, India and Shanghai, China.

Daniel Bellino Zwicke,

Friday, March 30, 2012

THE VILLAGE ....GREENWICH VILLAGE

SCENES of GREENWICH VILLAGE

From Top to Bottom:

PORTO RICO COFFEE ...Bleecker Street

Mcdougal Street ... Houston St. to Bleecker Street Block

CAFFE DANTE .. McDOUGAL Between Houston and Bleecker

McDougal Street Looking North between BLEECKER and MINETTA LANE

MINETTA TAVERN ...McDougal Street at Minetta Lane

All photos by Daniel Bellino Zwicke

"La TAVOLA" For GREENWICH VILLAGE ITALIAN by Greenwich Village Italian Native Daniel Bellino-Zwicke

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

The DUDE ABIDES

Great new Blog dedicated to everyone's Favorite Slacker / Stoner / SLASH - HIPPIE / Bowler / Lover of White Russians and Kuhlua ... The Dude ! Duder, His Dudeness, or El Duderino "if you're not into the whole brevity thing. Yes "The Dude" aka Jeffrey Lebowski, not the other Lebowski, "OK I'm a Lebowski You're a Leboski .. So So" !!! Doesn't have a Job Sir ... Unemployed and Enjoying Life with bowling Buddies Walter and Donny. "Shut the Fuck Up Donny." Yes the Dude "El Duderino" we love him so, The Dude, The White Russians, Kahlua, Bowling, Porn and Bunny Lebowski. What's not to Love?
"The Dude Abides" http://the-dudeabides.blogspot.com/ is a Great New Website Blog dedicated to, Yes The Big Lebowski "The Dude" and all aformentioned Loves of The Dude, yes we'll say it again; the White Russian, Bowling, Kahlua, Creedence, that's Creedence Clearwater Revival to you. No not the Eagles, Dude "Fuckin Hates The Eagles." don't know why, they're pretty good.
Everything and Anything Dude and Likes of The Dude, even things not seen in
THE BIG LEBOWSKI and things they think the DUDE might like but weren't film; Things like; PBRS, yes Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer, Cheech and Chong, and The Grateful Dead. You just know that The Dude had to like the Dead.
Hooked-Up with TheDudeAbides is @theDudeAbidesxo ( https://twitter.com/#!/TheDudeAbidesxo )
at TWITTER for all your quick up to the minute Happenings with The DUDE and all his Abiding.
Check them out. Enjoy! Abide ! We do.

"GOT ANY KAHLUA???" .

Saturday, March 24, 2012

WTC 1 IS "UGLY" and Why DAVID CHILDS SUCKS

REMEMBERING THE TWIN TOWERS

BRIGHT LIGHT BIG CITY

TWIN TOWER in BACKGROUND

With ODEON

I Worked at The ODEON in The Late 80's

Yes, it's a Sad Sad Fact, "WTC 1" rising down at GROUND ZERO where the Twin Towers once stood is quite disgusting. Have you looked at the awful looking tower rising into our Beautiful

New York Skyline? It's quite awful looking. How the Hell could the Powers That Be pick such an awful looking building? It's quite disgusting! It's appalling! They couldn't come up with something better. This building is an Eyesore! It's HORIBLE !!!! WTC 1 looks like a skyscraper from downtown Miami, or Phoenix, not New York... This is quite a Sin. We have to live with this SHIT for a long long time. How can these MORONS make such a blunder? This AWFUL looking Tower is going to be a part of Our Wonderful New York Skyline for years to come. It's terrible. This building is going to bring down the look of our skyline. It is a detrement to New York.

The Price Tag of WTC 1, formely The Freedom Tower is 4 BILLION Dollars. You Idiots, with that kind of Money, couldn't come up with a better design? A better Look? A building that looks like a New York Skyscraper, not a Downtown Miami Skyscraper? It's Disgusting. It's a Sin that we are made to look at this Ugly Awful looking Monstrosity. Listen, I'm not knocking Miami. It's a cool place, a nice city and I like it. And the tall modern looking office buildings and skyscrapers that are in downtown Miami are fine, and look fine. For Miami that it! But we don't want a building, and one that is so prominent and will be the tallest building in New York and one of the tallest in the World, we don't want a building like this to be set into our beautiful Iconic New York Skyline, and it looks like it was put there, picked up in Miami and plopped down in New York. It's just not right. It's Sacriligious! It's DISGUSTING! But guess what my fellow New Yorkers?

We have no choice in the matter! These Idiots; David Childs, Larry Silverstein,

The Port Authority,Skidmore Owings and Merrill, did it, it's almost done and we have to live with it. One of the most horrible Blunders in New York City History. All because of thos Bastards at The Port Authority, Larry Silverstein and That Asshole David Childs. "You've Got No Aesthetics Man!" Your Design SUCKS! It's Awful! Ugly looking and I'm Freakin Pissed as Hell that I, my fellow New Yorkers and the physical City of New York has to Live with your Shitty Ass

Miami-Looking Design! I HATE That BASTARD David CHILDS for putting such an Awful Looking Blemish on Our Beautiful New York Skyline... You Suck David!

A REDITION of

THE UGLY LOOKING WTC 1

and World Trade Center Complex

DESIGNED By a MAN

with AWFUL AESTHETICS "DAVID CHILDS"

Daniel Bellino Zwicke

NEW YORK and The $3.00 PBR

New York and the $3.00 PBR, Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer has been a God-Send to many New Yorkers. As you all know, the US Economy has been in the Shitter for the past 3-Half years or so.

Many people are out of work, and many who are working, are taking home Half-as-Much Money or more of what they used to make. People have had to buckle down and give up or curb many things they enjoyed previous to the current state of our economy, which is in almost a Depression Era State.

Yes, everybody says that we are not in a Depression, we're in a recession. Those are the Rich and Well-Off talking. To many, the state of our Union and their feelings are of Depression.

So, because of the Terrible State of our Economy you have given up eating out 3 times a week, you buy less clothes, spend less on Entertainment and any number of things and you haven't had a vacation in the past two years, maybe more. You given up a lot. We all have.

Now when it comes to socializing, going out for a few Beers or Cocktails with some friends, you've had to cut back on that too. But hey, you gotta draw a line somewhere, and everyone is entitled to a few drinks to unwind every now and then. But if you live in the Great City of New York this can be a costly undertaking, especially in this day, and of all times, to be having a Boom in The $14, Sixteen-Dollar-Or -More-Cocktail.W hat is a Poor Working Guy or Working Girl to do??? Well Boys and Girls, let's Thank God for that great thing of wonder and the Bars and establishments who so graciously and kindly serve it, The $3.00 PBR, That's right, a $3.oo Beer in The Land of The Over-Priced $16.00 Cocktail, Manhattan, New York, NY..... It's quite Sad, Greedy too.

Yes, Thank God and let's thank the Kind-Heart proprietors who serve $3.00 PBR'S or any Beer for just $3 or $4 in a New York Bar. You are doing you fellow man a public service and we thank you for that. Whoever you are, you are to be commended, and Shame-On-You, all those places that serve $14 PLUS Cocktails. "RIP-OFF" !!! Wish the masses would Boycott these places and patronize places like Blue & Gold Bar, 7B, and anyplace who has a heart. Bars that serve 3 and 4 Dollar Beers.

I just have to say, it's great to go to a place like Blue and Gold Bar on East 7th Street and know that you can have 3 or 4 Beers for just $12 to $16, accounting for a Buck a Pop for the Barkeep. Now that's pretty good. I have had the best times hanging at Blue & Gold with some friends. You sit at the Bar or get into a nice comfy booth, drink your Beers ($3 PBR'S), relax, listen to the Music, Chit Chat, and just enjoy, and it's not going to cost you The Shirt Off Your Back.

Yes, you can have 4 Beers, tip included for the price of 1 Rip-Off Drink at one of those Rip-Off Joints. And if you are Dumb enough to have four drinks in one of those places, guess what it's going to cost you? About $75 my friend.

Well, do the Math, and if you can afford $75 for only 4 drinks, God Bless You. And if you can't, you've got an alternative. Right, your local $3.00 PBR Joint. They're a God-Send.

Daniel Bellino-Zwicke