My attorney friend KMcG has a great habit of listening as she navigates her daily life on the streets of the City. On election day at 10 am in she heard a man, walking behind her speaking into his cell phone say: If Obama wins, we’re f@#kd. After lunch walking on another street, she overheard …
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Phone Booths
Wondered who was using these old phone booths. This afternoon I saw a young woman standing in one talking but I saw she had earbuds, so realized she wasn’t using the phone, she was standing under the roof to be out of the rain!!
Wrap Your Mind Around This…
A string of translucent wire, that goes around the island of Manhattan. An actual piece of fishing-wire-like-wire that is physically in place encapsulating the City. This is truth, and it is called an Eruv. I first heard about it, when a friend noticed a man outside the window of his apartment, fiddling with such a …
Bright Lights
Last night this was in the sky and it took 24 hours to find out what it is. If you google ‘Global Rainbow, by Yvette Mattern’ more information is available. The light beams fan out from the roof of the Standard Hotel in Chelsea, toward the areas hardest hit by Sandy. ‘To remind all that …
Remember..?
the “if you can’t get to JFK on the subway then we have bigger problems” story? I was approaching a young woman speaking with a MTA worker in a florescent vest at the 14th Street station this evening. ‘Yes,’ he said, ‘You take the train North to get to FarRockaway.’ “Are you sure?’ she queried. …
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Spam filter a total success. Returned to no spam, not a one on the site, what a good thing.
Out of Bounds
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade – didn’t see it. Crowds of folks milling about Times Square all weekend, missed it. Wednesday, prior to Thanksgiving, saw six hours of theatre and then left town. A couple of hundred miles north of the City can be soooo far away. One sees the night sky in all it’s stunning …
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BB installed a spam filter. Today, not a one!! Welcome to the other side of the internet-coin.
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The New Yorker Magazine cover of 19 November. ‘Rhapsody in Blue” by Mark Ulriksen, illustrates my sense of depression on the city.
The Blues
A sort of gloom and unsettled feeling in the City as I an experiencing it. Perhaps it is because one never knows when one will run into a friend or acquaintance who is still keenly and deeply influenced in their daily life by the storm’s aftermath. The Thanksgiving holiday is approaching, but so many families …