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  • FIRST Robotics Competition: The Pit

    This is the Pit, where the robots are kept and repaired between matches.(Riverbank State Park) ——–

  • FIRST Robotics Competition: British Invasion

    The Systemetric team hails from Hills Road Sixth Form College of Cambridge (UK, not MA). They’ve posted flyers with UK trivia all around the venue, presumably to help us dopey Americans understand their stange and exotic culture. I didn’t see any …

  • FIRST Robotics Competition: Grrl Power

    The Brearley Bots of Brearley School are competing here for the first time. They’re one of the few all-female teams.[Special shout-out to my good friend Zoe, a proud Brearley alumna.](Riverbank State Park) ——–

  • FIRST Robotics Competition: Bklyn Rbttng

    The JeffTech2005 is straight outta Thomas Jefferson High School, Brooklyn.(Riverbank State Park) ——–

  • FIRST Robotics Competition: The Game

    This year’s competition is a kind of tic-tac-toe involving “tetras” — fiberglass pyramids about three feet across. The competitors are divided into two sides of three teams each. The remotely-controlled robots have arms that can stack the tetras …

  • FIRST Robotics Competition

    The FIRST Robotics Competition NYC Regional is always a raucous and uplifting event. This year, three dozen teams of NYC-area high school students have built robots for the competition, which is designed to encourage interest in science, technolog…

  • Rehearsal

    Writing a play — even a short one — is a difficult and lonely process for me. Maybe one day it’ll get easier, but for now there’s no fun to it until rehearsals start. I love watching the director and actors find their way (and themselves) throug…

  • Cars, Snow, Cold

    (Houston St & Lafayette St) ——–

  • Freight Entrance

    (7 Av & 14 St) ——–

  • The Iceman Zambonith

    I don’t care who you are or how far you had to travel to get here or where you have to be in an hour. When you come here to skate, you play by my rules. And my rules say that every ninety minutes, you get your ass off the ice so I can resurface…

  • Monday Seating: Red Sofa

    (87 St & Lexington Av) ——–

  • The Needle and the Damage Done

    The junkie chic look of the early nineties is back! I guess a Kate Moss comeback can’t be far behind.(55 St & 5 Av) ——–

  • Hope Springs Eternally Underground

    What is it about our species that we can’t resist throwing coins into every small man-made body of water we come across, even if said small man-made body of water is a fetid stream of who-knows-what flowing through Brooklyn’s busiest subway statio…

  • HBS Case Study 11201: Moderately Extreme Makeover

    Sales rose 73% at the former Disappointment Smorgasboard following a comprehensive re-branding effort.(Willoughby St & Lawrence St) ——–

  • Getting a (Germ-Free) Grip

    Subway riders do lots of things to minimize skin contact with the pole — I’ve seen gloves, two-finger grabs, body leans, and surfing, to name a few. But I hadn’t seen this rather obvious method (paper napkin) until today.(B train, Bklyn) ——–

  • The Sphere

    I think the proposed WTC memorial is a good one, but I can’t imagine how it’ll match the quiet power of this 9/11 survivor.(The Sphere by Fritz Koenig, formerly at the World Trade Center Plaza, moved to Battery Park in March 2002) ——–

  • Why Other NY Graffiti is Still Pretty Lame

    I thought this bit of faith-based vandalism was a recent phenomenon, but apparently it dates back to the late sixties. Note to tagger: if you’re gonna be rude enough to tag a subway car, you should at least try to do something fresh…It’s just mo…

  • Why NY Ad Graffiti Rocks

    The truth can really hurt sometimes.(1 train, heading uptown) ——–

  • Monday is Cat Week: Hello Beckoning Kittys

    (Mott St) ——–

  • Monday is Cat Week: Paws

    (Marla) ——–

  • Gratitude

    What’s a great day in New York? It’s watching a play you wrote on its feet for the first time and thinking how lucky you are that these talented people are creating wonderful life from some crazy things you scribbled on paper. It’s eating Two Boot…

  • Street Level

    (Allen St) ——–

  • Chinatown

    (Canal St) ——–

  • The Unbearable Heaviness of…Adulthood

    Act your age and get your mind out of the gutter why don’t you. This ain’t that kind of website.(Eyes by Louise Bourgeois, Wagner Park) ——–

  • Blue Ice

    (Broadway & Park Pl) ——–

  • Time Out From the Rat Race

    These inflatable rats* are so commonplace now that we locals barely notice them, which probably says something interesting and true about New Yorkers, but I am just way too tired right now to figure out what that something might be.*Commonly used …

  • Stairway to Academia

    Monumental staircases aren’t too common in new public buildings, which is a shame because this one at the NYU student center is quite nice. I’m guessing this is my alma mater’s take on the famous Low Library steps at our uptown rival, Columbia. Ex…

  • BP Bird

    (Battery Park) ——–

  • Christo in Bklyn?

    I loved The Gates, but I’m kinda worried that these copycat mega installation art projects will cheapen the whole concept.(Brooklyn Borough Hall) ——–

  • Flight by A Woman

    (Broadway, north of Bowling Green) ——–

  • Peace is the Dream

    Whatever you think about the NYC 2012 Olympic bid (I’m a supporter), you gotta love their current ad campaign, which was meant to be seen by the IOC during its recent four day evaluation visit. I wish we’d see more messages like this, preferably n…

  • Amusements

    (Mott St) ——–

  • Battery Park-n-Flip 2

    (Battery Park) ——–

  • Battery Park-n-Flip

    (Battery Park) ——–

  • Red Coat

    Looked up from my spotSaw a world in your red coatI wanted to know(Canal St Station) ——–

  • Chatham Towers

    (Worth St & Park Row) ——–

  • Terminal Couture

    (Broad St & Marketfield St) ——–

  • A Whiter Shade of Bowling Green 3

    Cass Gilbert is the man.(Bowling Green & the US Customs House) ——–

  • A Whiter Shade of Bowling Green 2

    Cool and comfy seating.(Bowling Green) ——–

  • A Whiter Shade of Bowling Green

    The pink tint on the trees is from the camera, making them look like cherry blossoms, which is pretty cool.(Bowling Green) ——–

  • $63.68

    They don’t call it Whole Paycheck for nothing.(Whole Foods Market, 24 St & 7 Av) ——–

  • Arc d’Washington

    Wow, the restored arch is stunning.(Washington Square Park) ——–

  • Snow Signs

    (Battery Park) ——–

  • The Secret of My Success

    Blandly Positive/Reassuring Things I Say When I Don’t Want to Say What I Really Think(especially useful at the office)1. It makes a lot of sense.2. Yeah, I hear that.3. I think you’re onto something there.4. Sounds like a plan.5. There’s something…

  • Times Square Snow 2

    (Broadway & 48 St) ——–

  • Times Square Snow

    (49 St & 7 Av) ——–

  • Downtown Dehumidifier

    Hot sticky New York summers are a thing of the past now that the world’s largest dehumidifier has entered operation in Lower Manhattan.(One Liberty Plaza) ——–

  • 51 Nassau St

    “Eight bucks for a house sign at Home Depot? I can make my own for nuthin’.”(Nassau St near Maiden Lane) ——–

  • Rush Hour Reading Room

    Today’s Results(in no particular order)TorahNew York PostEnglish vocabuary bookBible study guideSix Days of WarChinese newspaperDaily NewsBibleMetroScience textbooksStuff printed off the webCult of Harvey (???)(Q Train – Brighton Local/Broadway Ex…

  • My Expiration Date?

    Just in case a person really can die from eating six year old hummus and tabouli mix, I just wanna blog three last things: 1) I love you all very much, 2) I’m sorry I wasn’t the best son/brother/friend/boyfriend/cat owner I could have been, and 3)…