Do Not Wash in front of this Door… This is who is doing the washing..because behind the door with the sign is a mass of electrical workings for the trains below. So hit the floor with water inside the door… and well….
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The ?
I enter a New York University building, behind Washington Square Park, and while waiting at the security desk for clearance, I observe a gray haired, nicely suited, late sixties age man. He could be a professor, as he has that air of importance about him. There is a way in which persons project that the …
Does This Mess with Your Mind..
You are a tourist on a weekend in the City. You enter the W4th Street Subway station with subway map in hand. On the first floor of this three level station the A, C & E trains arrive and leave. You are standing on a middle platform with trains coming and going to your left …
More Subway Art
Associations
You have seen this sign in a previous post. I couldn’t figure it out. I made the association that ‘they’ did not want the indigent washing in front of the door. But I wondered, why would they, there is no faucet, no mirror…. and finally yesterday it dawned. Duh. Do you all get what it …
Begging
Have decided that panhandling fits the definition of a job. Look at it from that perspective. 1- have to get up 2- get dressed 3- leave the house 4- have to be bold and go amongst the folk 5-have to have a story 6- be persistent 7- be social – can’t be a total introvert …
28th Street
This is the street of trees and plants. A virtual garden all the time. I forget how lush it is until I happen upon it on my way to somewhere. It is a visual delight. Over and over.
Sidewalk
Walking in the Village I felt the change under my feet before I realized what it was. Look at these large, cobble stones. The photo right shows where the old sidewalk butts up against the newer cement flat sidewalk. Who and what and when have tread these stones.
Black Book
My growing up and adulthood experience was that if I saw a suited-necktie-man in a public space, with a black book in his hand, he was holding a bible. With that bible he was going to either hold a street meeting or preach in that public space. It struck me the other day, that many …
It Happens in New York
Nothing earth shaking… but attended a highly regarded, well reviewed movie today and thought it was awful. Watched 6 patrons walk out within the first 20 minutes. And they will never know it never got better. This evening attended an off Broadway theatre production and it too was just plain awful. Gives hope to those …