[The bottom of the black door is visible just above the cement threshold in the photo left. The foreground in the second photo is press board, that stops one from stepping into the abyss.] Really don’t know which part of this tickles my fancy most. Is it the wording of the sign, beginning with ‘warning’ …
Monthly Archives: December 2011
Priceless
The phone rings loudly, harshly. She digs around in her purse to find it. With a loud ‘Hello’, she answers it. She listens for a few seconds and then in the same loud voice, her next words are: ‘I’m sitting in a computer class, taking a test’. As she snaps the phone shut, a couple …
Shopping
As I passed them in the aisle, I heard her ask him, ‘Shall I stand in line for you?’. We were all in Trader Joe’s on Saturday afternoon, which is about as close to organized madness as one will find. The line for the checkout, which is actually a double line, stretches the length of …
More 5th Avenue
One of my favorite sights: the ultra-expensive jewel-box jewelry store with million dollar bling in the plate-glass front window while on the corner outside a hotdog-pretzel-seller at his cart is sending up smoke clouds as he fires up his grill. It costs to walk down 5th Avenue at Christmas. Dollars to the unique percussion performer …
5th Avenue
One way to experience the Retail Christmas Season is hailing a cab at the Plaza Hotel at 12:30 am and driving south on 5th Avenue, hitting the wave of green lights and thus, not having quite enough time to look both right and left to take in the lights and sights. Your ride begins passing …
Shoes
Consciously noting the shoes on the feet around, in front of, and beside me, is thought provoking. Ballet-type slippers on girls with nimble feet, leopard print flats on sleek, hair-helmeted blondes of a certain age, gucci fabric loafers on moms in tight jeans with four year olds in tow, florescent green soles on sport shoes …
Under the Gun
To learn more I often try a different entrance to the subway. Tuesday I decided to try an unused-by-me-entrance at Christopher St. The turnstile gates appeared directly at the bottom of the stairs, which I had not expected. One needs to be able to make a choice about the direction of train travel: north or …
Signs
There it was. A key. Lying just a mere foot from the curb at the corner of 11th & 4th, a unique looking key a bit bigger than usual, ornate at the top. Monday morning. Did a female give it to a guy and he dropped it after they went their separate ways? Or some …
Seeing What’s There
I have read it as fact, that the early settlers were not seen arriving in their boats by the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas, because you can’t see what you don’t know. [the theory is that the shaman, better attuned to observation, saw the ripples in the water and reasoned that ripples were indicative of …
On the Street
Walking north on 7th Avenue early Sunday morning with a friend, a package slipped under a mailbox catches my eye. I walk past then reverse and stand there, conversing in speculation about what it could be. We can see a what appears to be a couple of folded pillowcases and the rest is all white …