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  • Angle On Chinatown

    (Mott St & Pell St, Manhattan)

  • Lucky Garden

    (Lucky Garden Restaurant, North Providence, RI)

  • Synagogue For The Arts

    (Civic Center Synagogue, 49 White St, Manhattan)

  • 28 Ways To Run For The Train

    It’s dangerous to run for the train. You could slip and hurt yourself really badly. But everyone that runs for the train and makes it in just before the doors close always grins like a madman afterwards. So, maybe it’s worth the risk. (Bowling Gre…

  • Monday Is Cat Week: By The Window

    (Marla)

  • Deep Below Times Square

    I was 8 or 9 the first time I ever rode this escalator, which was the longest I’d ever seen. I was with my Grandma who could barely speak English — much less read it — but somehow she knew where we were going. We were probably heading to Chinato…

  • Park, Battery, City

    (Battery Park City, Manhattan)

  • Three Questions for Jackson

    What are you looking forward to? All summer, I was looking forward to the day this little restaurant near my office, “Tony’s,” opened back up. I’d discovered it earlier in the year, probably in the spring, and they had this huge, and I mean, HUGE …

  • A New iMac For The Parents

    I just bought my parents the spanking new iMac G5 (with built-in iSight, woohoo!) to replace their aging Gateway Astro, which itself is a knock-off of the original iMac . Although I only got in a few hours with the machine before sending it off to…

  • Drive Closed

    (Park Drive South near West 67 St, Central Park, Manhattan)

  • Broadway/20

    (Broadway & 20 St, Manhattan)

  • Rent Is Too Damn High

    …and if you don’t care to vote for Bloomberg, may I suggest the Rent Is Too Damn High Party (if only for the name)?

  • Bloomberg For Mayor

    In his four years in office, Mayor Bloomberg has made government more efficient and transparent, kept crime down, and — most importantly to me — taken control of the schools. I think he’s done great work. His opponents have tried to paint him as…

  • Macin’ At The Millenium

    (Millenium Hilton, 55 Church St, Manhattan) Related post: Dunkin-n-Writin

  • Jo’s Weapon Of Choice

    Although the Spike Jonze/Christopher Walken video of Fatboy Slim’s “Weapon of Choice” is pretty good, spontaneous gravity-defying dancing is something New Yorkers can see on an everyday basis — in the right company. (Chase Bank, 43 St & 5 Av, Man…

  • Wall St

    (Wall St & Broad St, Manhattan) All around Wall St: Stereo Umbrella Looking Up We Had a Winner Time Out From the Rat Race Four Minutes Church vs State (vs Market) DT via EC #1

  • Bad News

    (96 St-Broadway Station, Manhattan)

  • Dakota

    (Dakota Apartments, 72 St & Central Park West, Manhattan)

  • The Not-So-Great Pumpkin

    Happy Halloween, Charlie Brown! Musical accompaniment: Great Pumpkin Waltz [iTunes Music Store] (Marshall’s, East Providence, RI) More Scary Self-Portraitature: If You Need It, You Should Show It Self-Portrait In:Of A Scion

  • At The Giant Robot

    (GRNY Store, Manhattan)

  • Red Hook Dusk

    (Red Hook, Brooklyn) Related posts: BWAC~CAWB Blue Sky (Mine) 360 Sunset in Red Hook

  • Court/Atlantic

    (Court St & Atlantic Av, Brooklyn)

  • Branch Brook Park Station

    Mortellito Memorial (2003) by Tom Otterness (Branch Brook Park Station, Newark City Subway, Newark, NJ) More Otterness Mania: Lost in the Land of the Lost

  • Price Rite

    (Price Rite, Seekonk, MA)

  • Date With Ikea: Ich Bin Ein Jerker

    Our visit to Ikea ends back at home with the object of conquest: the famous Jerker computer desk. Title reference: Pavement (Ikea Elizabeth, Elizabeth, NJ)

  • Date With Ikea: Jo On The Go (3)

    Computer alert! Computer alert! One day after my Treo took this photo, it died. I guess the weird but cool scan lines were a hint things were about to go wrong. (A replacement Treo came a few days later.) Title reference: Pavement (Ikea Elizabeth,…

  • Date With Ikea: Jo On The Go (2)

    Title reference: Pavement (Ikea Elizabeth, Elizabeth, NJ) More Jo Jo On The Lingonberry Go Go: Date With Ikea: Jo On The Go (1)

  • Date With Ikea: Jo On The Go (1)

    Jo’s always on the go, even in the Ikea cafeteria. Title reference: Pavement (Ikea Elizabeth, Elizabeth, NJ)

  • Date With Ikea: Darn, Another Street Name Taken

    Finding a cool nom de street that some other hustla hasn’t already taken is getting tougher and tougher. Title reference: Pavement (Ikea Elizabeth, Elizabeth, NJ) The Search for Street: The (Still) Birth of Cool

  • Date With Ikea: Daniel The Greeter

    Happy Birthday to Daniel (aka DVCAM), who enjoys the Ikea experience so much he likes to hang out at the entrance greetin’ customers and snappin’ their photos. Title reference: Pavement (Ikea Elizabeth, Elizabeth, NJ) More DVCAM: Three Questions f…

  • Date With Ikea: A Shoutout To MS

    Until Ikea comes to Brooklyn, a trip out to the blue and yellow giant still means a day trip for us city folk. So why not make a mini-vacation out of it, snapping photos and getting all excited over $.99 cafeteria cheesecake like a tourist? This s…

  • Shop Different

    (Apple Store Soho, Manhattan) Related posts: Haiku 10.3.9 (7W98) Androids Dreaming of Electric Sheep

  • Monday Is Cat Week: Paws Revisited

    (Marla) The Monday is Cat Week Experience: Chinatown Feline Felicitations Hollaback Cat Black, White, Trendy Bidalasana Marla in the Superunknown Four Felines Hello Beckoning Kittys Paws

  • On The N

    (Manhattan Bridge)

  • Has Anyone Seen The Bridge?

    The replacement of the Lincoln Road bridge is one of the reasons the Q has been all crazy absent on weekends this month. But hey — cool view, huh?. Title reference: “The Crunge” by Led Zeppelin. (Brighton Line Subway [B/Q] at Lincoln Rd, Brooklyn)

  • All The Time: 34/7

    (34 St & 7 Av, Manhattan)

  • Stereo Umbrella

    (Wall St & Broadway, Manhattan)

  • Metroparkinglot

    (Metropark Station, Iselin, NJ)

  • Hmmm Or Mmmm?

    A Spam sushi? Someone I know actually ate this, but I wasn’t brave enough to try it. (L&L Hawaiian Barbecue, 8 Av & 36 St, Manhattan)

  • Dupont Circle Station

    (Dupont Circle Metro Station, Washington DC)

  • Hirshhorn

    (Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC)

  • Silver Sprung!

    Last night was the world premiere of Take It Or Leave It? at the DC Asian Pacific Film Festival and I’m very glad to say the audience seemed to really enjoy it. They laughed big — and in all the right places. After the screening, I got up on stag…

  • One Broadway

    (1 Broadway, Manhattan)

  • Canal & Lafayette

    (Canal St & Lafayette St, Manhattan)

  • The Bowling Green Headhouse

    (Bowling Green Station, Manhattan)

  • Time Out For A Geek Out

    OK, I admit it — I bought my G5 as much to tinker with as to do video editing on. And so far, the tinkering and editing are measuring about even on the pleasure meter. Just last night, I added a fourth Maxtor DiamondMax 300 gig drive via my MaxCo…

  • Happy To Line Up For A Shake

    Yeah, I hate the lines in New York as much as the next person. But every now and then I remember that when I lived in the Jersey ‘burbs I used to wait in line at restaurants, too. Except in NJ, the lines were for places like El Torito, Pizzeria Un…

  • Alien Invasion!

    As soon as I raise $200 million, I’m going to shoot a really badass alien invasion movie. Here’s the first shot. [click for full size] (Time Warner Center, Columbus Circle, Manhattan)

  • Blooming In The Kitchen

    (Home, Brooklyn)

  • A Cat Named Destiny

    (J Y Market, 56 St & 8 Av, Manhattan)