NYC code is that Yellow Cabs owned by fleet operators have to be replaced every three years; individual owners, every five. Just read this in New York Magazine. Next year a new concept Yellow Cab is coming and the company awarded the contract was Nissan.
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editorial note: two wrongs…
1. There are adverts on the inside of the bus. They are however, not consistent and are way beyond eye level. Seldom noticed. 2. the 2×4 constructed boxes around the trees in the village were not for the 4th of July. They are to protect the trees from major street construction taking place now.
Nubs
That’s all that was left on the earth in the pot. The sort of nub found after deer have feasted on the plant. Only these were the fragile lobelia sprouts that were growing from the seed packets, 2 flights up on the fire escape. I never saw the culprit. I’m hoping it was a bird, …
Adverts
Noticed: when sitting in the bus on the sidewalk side, people walking, read the adverts on the side of the bus. I then realized there are no advert signs inside the buses. On the subway, the adverts are inside the cars, but there is nothing on the outside. Why?
Sheer Beauty – 2
Sometimes the architecture is just worth the look.
Not on My Watch
They were somewhere in the age range of 12-14, 3 boys and 1 girl who was the eldest, walking ahead of me on a Village Street on a lazy afternoon. That one of the boys ran the buzzer of an apartment house as he passed didn’t really faze me. That another of the boys pilfered …
How Do You Distinguish?
Read a book, saw a play, in this case, about the traffic in young girls for the sex trade, by unscrupulous men. In the past have noticed the infrequent street walker but demographics change when it’s summer in the City: lots of tourists, and lots of folk away. The first couple that brought the question …
Beautification
It is absolutely charming how the folk works to beautify the living spaces.
The T-shirt Read:
‘I have the body of a god’. Thought to myself, that’s a bold statement given you, male sojourner, look as if you might be 8 months pregnant. And then I look at the picture spread across the expanse. Buddha!!
And the Answer:
Those amazing chandeliers hang in various locations in Grand Central Terminal [sometimes mistakenly referred to as Station rather than Terminal].