Or, Life is not fair. The snow has been falling since early afternoon, and now at 6 pm it is still snowing, only now the snow is wetter and the outside atmosphere dark and cold. I look out my window at the diminished traffic and see a bicyclist in the middle of the road, peddling …
Category Archives: City views
Happy Chinese New Year
Wednesday, the eve of New Year’s Day, was in Chinatown and it was bustling! People buying special cakes and fish and fruits and flowers. The sun was bright, though the air was chill and the wind gusted now and then. But the sunshine added such a festive note to the goings-on. And it seemed indeed …
Peyton Place on Perry Street
Not really… rather Sex and the City. Should have posted this years ago, because as I walk by this address, most certainly once a week there is always a gathering of ‘tourists’ there, each taking pictures of the other and generally hanging out. The folks that live there… have apparently done everything to minimize the …
Skye Ferrante
Met this artist on the street in SoHo, 2010 Revisited him- he is now well established. His continuous strand wire portraits are of real people. The titled ones are of burlesque personalities. These are signed with his signature in the bends in the corner. His work is wondrous to behold.
Score Again
for the Doubting Thomas side. Awoke this morning to a non-event. It actually looks like less snow than when I went to bed. The traffic ban is lifted, cars are driving and I can see the pavement from the plowing. The subway will soon be up and running. All is well and I have an …
Storm Prep
Apparently I am an equal opportunity doubting Thomas. It is hard for me to accept the hype of just about anything, and this doubt includes weather forecasts. In my years in the City, the first weather-disaster hype I ignored and that turned out correct. Then I ignored the second weather-hype and got stormed out. So …
More on Subway Riding
This is a made-up dictionary of some situations encountered while riding! http://mashable.com/2015/01/04/subway-dictionary/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link When all is said and done, just having experienced the Washington DC Metro system, the New York system does a lot of things right!!
Man Spreading…
A quote from the article to whet your appetite. How often I have thought this very thing: Who do you think you are to take up the space of two spreading your knees. After the quote below, is a link to the article A Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) spokesman, Kevin Ortiz, described the practice thus: …
Adult Swim
Here it is again. Have no idea what this advert is. Like a normal person, I looked it up. How cheeky is this. Adult swim is late night programming…well who knew!
Is This Right?
The Season is over. And now the tree is discarded and at the curb ready for pickup. I don’t doubt that the pick up is done by a company that is going to make mulch. That is a good thing. However, do we need to be cutting and casting off? In the City it is …