Every morning since the bird incident, there has been a pigeon at my stoop. When I exit, there he is, loitering about, sometimes with another. Once I start to walk, they low fly away. I had never seen them prior to the good sam act. What is the word on pigeon street? Here lives a …
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Sky Scraper
Hence the name.
Mice, Rats
It is a curious moment, standing on the edge of the platform, watching the lone mouse scurry between the tracks. In some stations it is the rats. The most amusing moment was at the 14th street station, and the rat was on the platform with the folk. He kept heading toward one man, who put …
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Theatre Interiors
The older theatres around midtown, Broadway, Times Square have beautiful interiors that have been refurbished or saved. Because there is not always a lot of time prior to the performance, some of these photos are marginal at best.
The Sounds of the City..
as heard out my window. Softly, the birds twittering in the trees, then the bark of the dog, tied by his leash to the french around the tree at the curb. Later in the morning, the wail of the ambulance forcing a path through the traffic. As the day wears on, the drone of the …
Strange Behaviour
Perhaps it was the full moon. It was an evening and night marked by strange behaviour I saw a young man get hit off his bicycle and smacked to the ground by a car, in the middle of a major intersection. While he lay there unmoving, with a policeman at his head, the buses, cars …
Sheer Beauty
Sometimes just the architecture of the City itself is a sight to behold.
But Of Course
When the subway service is going to be altered for the trains that run to Chinatown, the notices are in Chinese.