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  • Parkchester Station at 8:53

    (Parkchester Station, The Bronx)

  • Beautiful Garbage, Beautiful Dresses

    Oh look at my face My name is might have been My name is never was My name’s forgotten (Broadway & Stone St, Manhattan)

  • Monday is Cat Week: Bidalasana

    Marla’s like a totally new cat since she got into yoga. (Marla)

  • All About Our Mothers

    Happy Mother’s Day! You did remember to get her something, right? (Century 21, 22 Corlandt St, Manhattan)

  • And It Was All Yellow

    Look at the stars, look how they shine for you. (Bowling Green, Manhattan)

  • Civic Pride: City Hall

    As an urbanist, I’m a little embarassed to admit that I’ve only been in New York’s City Hall twice in my life. The architecture is beautiful. I think parts of the building, including the rotunda, are open to the public, although the intimidating p…

  • Chase/Bank

    (Chase Manhattan Plaza, Pine St & William St, Manhattan)

  • Rodenticide (Special Guest Star: Tiki Barber)

    Sometimes, I don’t ask why things are the way they are. I just keep the thought to myself and press the button on the camera. Releated post: Rodenticide (14 St-7 Av Station)

  • These Random Access Memories Can’t Wait

    I recently finished a really good book about memory improvement, but I’ve been too lazy to actually perform any of the brain exercises recommended by the author. So while I now know more about the brain than I did before, my memory hasn’t increase…

  • Sakura Matsuri: 36 Views

    In honor of both Hiroshige and Naomi Iizuka, I shot these pictures yesterday at Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Sakura Matsuri cherry blossom festival. It was packed, and I was disappointed not to see many women wearing kimonos this year, but the weathe…

  • The True Administration of Justice

    (New York State Supreme Court, 60 Centre St, Manhattan)

  • Shadow Garden

    (From Shadow Garden and Community Island/Pond, 2001, by Carl Cheng, Pier 11, Manhattan)

  • Fishy Pell-Mell

    I noticed the aquariums in the window and had a few minutes to kill, so I stopped to shoot some photos. This fish came right up to the corner of the tank where I was shooting. I couldn’t tell if he was looking at me or was attracted by something e…

  • Real is the New Fake is the New Real

    I’ve always prided myself on having a pretty good eye for spotting new things that are pretending to be old — Bennigan’s is an easy one, Balthazar is way harder, the East Staircase at Grand Central is impossible — but these days my Fake Filter i…

  • Looking Up

    (from Looking Up by Nancy Burson, April 13-29 at 60 Wall Street Atrium)

  • Spin City

    The right way to do something you feel self-conscious about — like being the only adult unaccompanied by a child on the Times Square Toys “R” Us ferris wheel — is to just do it and enjoy it and ignore the puzzled and fearful stares of the other …

  • Monday is Cat Week: Marla in the Superunknown

    (Marla)

  • Looking Out, Looking In

    Someone once said that New York is just like anywhere else, only more intense. It makes a lot of sense to me — with so many people in so relatively small an area, everyday life here has an intensity that’s sometimes thrillingly joyous, sometimes …

  • An Educated Consumer Is Our Best Customer

    (Vice, 252 Lafayette St, Manhattan)

  • Haiku 10.3.9 (7W98)

    Apple Store SoHo Hipsters, geeks, beautiful girls This ain’t no Best Buy (Apple Store, 103 Prince St, Manhattan) Related post: Androids Dreaming of Electric Sheep

  • Sometimes Salvation

    Admittedly, it’s been years since I last wore a Santa Claus outfit and rang a bell, but I’m glad to see that the Salvation Army is still leaving interesting garbage out on the sidewalks of 14 St for photoblogging wags like myself. As the song goes…

  • Street Signs

    I’m a fan of the vaguely-retro street signs the Downtown Alliance installed several years ago all over Downtown as part of a plan to improve wayfinding. The white type on black is classy and clean, the photos provide a visual link to familiar land…

  • Fay-Da Window

    If you’re wandering around Manhattan on your own, Chinatown offers a ton of great places where you can sit quietly, enjoy some tasty & cheap food, and get in some great people watching. At this branch of the Fay-Da chain, you can have a coconut bu…

  • BPC DFZ

    (Battery Park City)

  • 360 Katz’s

    (Katz’s Delicatessen, 205 East Houston St, Manhattan)

  • Wayfinding Signage

    (Delancey-Essex Station)

  • Love @ Two Boots

    My perfect lunch: a slice of the Bayou Beast (BBQ shrimp, crawfish, andouille [whatever that is], jalapeno, mozzarella), a slice of the Mel Cooley (sun-dried tomatoes, basil, pesto, ricotta cheese, roasted peppers) and a Teany peach berry green te…

  • Chung-Wah Beauty

    Related posts: Monday is Cat Week: Four Felines Chung-Wah Beauty Salon (Chung-Wah Beauty Salon, 19 Pell St, Manhattan)

  • You Ever Take It Off Any Sweet Jumps?

    (John St & Nassau St)

  • To Sir With Love

    Sir Norman Foster’s Hearst Tower is going to be one heck of a cool place when it’s done. Built on top of a 1928 art deco building by Joseph Urban, the tower features an unconventional diagonal grid framework and is the first “green” office buildin…

  • Monday is Cat Week: Four Felines

    (Clockwise from top left: Tokyo Lunch, 10 John St; Marla; Chung-Wah Beauty Salon, 19 Pell St; Sophia’s backpack)

  • Filthy Late Night Bar Haiku

    By Lethia and Andrew of Seven.11 2005. (Lolita Bar, 266 Broome St, Manhattan)

  • Breakfast Smoothie Ingredients

    (Add water as necessary)

  • Rector Street Bridge

    (Rector St & West St, Manhattan)

  • Fourteenth Street Union Square

    Getting dumped is no fun. Getting dumped via a call on your cell when you’re waiting for friends at Union Square is even worse. Fortunately, that was a long time ago and it hasn’t happened again since. Just to be safe, though, I turn off the ringe…

  • Magilla Will See You In Court

    (Broadway & Morris St)

  • Pahk Yah Cah in Haavad Yahd

    Things I’m Gonna Try Not to Say Today 1. [name] in the house! 2. I wanna take it to the next level. 3. Sure, I’ll sponsor you. 4. There’s no capital Z in “Asian.” 5. Well, I got honorable mention once. 6. OK, super-size it. 7. Hella. 8. Sorry, I t…

  • A Our The or This

    (Fulton St & Gold St, Manhattan)

  • Monday Seating: Onstage

    (Primary Stages, 45 St & 9 Av, Manhattan)

  • Au Bon Pain

    (Prospect Park Station)

  • Replacement/Equinox

    Before this corner became home to this branch of the swanky Equinox health club a few years ago, it was a movie theater called the Art Greenwich. I remember seeing a film there several years back with someone. I think it may have been a date, but …

  • Monday Seating: White Loveseat

    (William St & Fulton St)

  • Rodenticide

    (Canal St Station) ——–

  • Scenic Vista

    (Battery Park) ——–

  • We Had a Winner

    Take a chance take a chance take a chukka chance chance take a chance take a chance take a chukka chance chance…(Wall St & William St) ——–

  • Tuesday Unlucky Rats (I Am, I Said)

    As I was taking this photo to show how one can get used to anything in this City, including drinking Dr. Pepper next to stinky subway trash containers, a rat the size of my cat darted out from between them.I leapt out of its way, barely a second b…

  • Monday Lucky Cats

    (Great Wall Store, Canal & Broadway) ——–

  • Cut Rate

    (Fulton St & Ryders Alley) ——–

  • Dunkin-n-Writin

    (Dunkin Donuts, Hudson Pl, Hoboken) ——–

  • FIRST Robotics Competition: Boom Box

    Lastly, what’s a teen event without loud music? This robot, which was built as a side project by the Pirates of George Westinghouse High School (BKLYN!), features a DVD player, a stereo, and of course, Earth-shakin’ bass. The makers tell me they m…