This hand-painted sign is on 14th Street, near 8th Avenue. It stops me every time I see it, it doesn’t get more ‘down home country’ than this.
Monthly Archives: September 2013
The Procession
The City never ceases to amaze me; the neighborhoods contained within its boundaries. Sunday on Court St in Brooklyn. Only Italian was spoken, the crowd was dressed in black and the procession, as previously advertised, was waiting to happen. Men, women, children, the street was packed.
Atop the Buildings
Across from each other, at the tops of many lower buildings in the Village and elsewhere, are flags flying where normally one does not see a flag. 11th remembering and statement.
YES!
The City has spoken: No Weiner, No Spitzer. [I’m curious to see if their marriages last]
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The beams may also be sporadically switched off during the planned illumination, in order to accommodate passing flocks of birds that could be confused by the light. Via Gothamist
In Remembrance -Tribute in Lights.
They are on again this year. There is apparently a question each year if there will be a sponsor to pay for the twin beams of light from ground zero. I noticed them on Sunday night for this year, 2013. It is a wonderful tribute to see and the second little picture, shows the end …
The Machine
More often I should report on plays attended but I figure if you wanted to know you would read a professional reviewer. However, this evening is to be mentioned. The playbill at the top of the picture is the typical playbill look and size, a standardized size. The checkered square below is the playbill for …
My First…
sighting of a Mclaren. http://www.caricos.com/cars/m/mclaren/2011_mclaren_mp4-12c/ Wow. It was night and not enough light to give it justice, although the white certainly made it stand out. I don’t recall having seen a ‘working-real-live-speciman’ previously.
Parade
Today, the sidewalks of the UES* were decked out – as if one was walking among easter parade participants or a christmas day event [for lack of a better comparison, for those of us not celebrating Rosh Hashanah]. Everyone we passed on our way to a non-celebratory rehearsal lunch was dressed in their finest, or, …
One Forgets…
… that a specific sector of the population influences much that takes place in the City. Today, there are no street sweepers, the ones for whom signs are posted and folks must move their cars from north side of the side, to the south, or east to west in order to accommodate these tank like …