Over the river and through the hoods
03/27/03
I walked home from work today. By far the highlight was seeing a train of IRT Redbirds on the Manhattan Bridge (perhaps on their way to be scrapped, or to be dumped into the ocean, sniff).
The Bowery
from the Manhattan Bridge
And here's a little bonus. I knew New York had some big rats, but this is ridiculous:
20th and Broadway
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You lookin' at me?
03/25/03
On any given weekday, more than two million people ride the New York City subway and most of them try very hard not to look at one another.As an act of sustained denial it is amazing to watch, especially when the person who is defiantly not looking is seated right across from another person who screams to be looked at: he is playing "Staying Alive" on a broken saxophone; he is clipping his fingernails onto the floor while arguing with Satan; he is wearing a suit and headdress made entirely from old plastic bags.
Randy Kennedy, in the Times.
The closest I've come to that lately was a crazy (but fun) drunk guy who roamed around my car of the Q train, saying "The nice thing about you white guys, you know how to read a map." Also, he told the story of why he punched his army dentist in Vietnam: "If you won't knock me out, I'm gonna knock you out."
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Marching against war
03/22/03
I was near the front of the march, from Herald Square to Washington Square Park. Supposedly over 250,000 people showed up.
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Times Square, and soggy
03/20/03
Really the most notable things about the protest were all the cops, and the guy who had the same Mao bag as me. (He also got it in China.) I got very, very wet.
A Kosher restaurant, Broadway around 39th
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Along the M train
03/18/03
Ridgewood, Brooklyn
These Roman numerals were left either by train operators or by very daring trespassers; in either case, I don't quite understand the purpose. They're next to the button the train operator presses to control the switches.
Pacific Street, Brooklyn
Pacific Street, Brooklyn
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Weigh
03/18/03
Montague Street, Brooklyn Heights
Mmm.
Midtown
This sign doesn't actually make any sense, unless there was a period when trains ran on the A and G lines but not on the F. It's on the Queens-bound side above a passageway to the Smith/9th-bound side.
Fulton Street G train station
I fell on the stairs at Times Square today. If only I'd paid more attention to 70-year-old signs.
East New York
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Along Fulton Street
03/15/03
I finished walking the length of Fulton Street, from Fulton Ferry to City Line (the quaintly-named neighborhood at the Brooklyn/Queens border), today.
Fulton Ferry, Brooklyn
near Fulton Ferry
East New York, Brooklyn
Cypress Hills, Brooklyn
Most New Yorkers have seen branches of Kennedy Fried Chicken, usually in somewhat scary neighborhoods. (Like mine.) Well, here's an imitation of that imitation of KFC:
Cypress Hills/City Line, Brooklyn
Apparently it isn't the only one.
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Euphemism edition
03/14/03
Yu Yuan Gardens, Shanghai
23rd Street, Chelsea
Shanghai
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NJ
03/13/03
There are a million things to do when you step off the PATH and begin your journey home. For starters: Pay your PSE&G bill, buy some crack, pick up the dry cleaning, stock up on groceries, catch a blowjob in the restroom, grab up some roses for the wife, snag some under-$10 ghettowear at Rainbow.
Laura Hibit in this week's New York Press, extolling the virtues of the Journal Square PATH station.
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Insomnia
03/13/03
And now I'm all tired and cranky the next day. I've discovered a new metric of insomnia: not being able to sleep until past when the express trains start running. (They shake up my apartment.)
Here's what happened the last time I was up that late. Really not what you want to see when you're tired and trying to get home. Especially when it sticks around for 10 minutes.
Hoyt-Schermerhorn
When I'm dictator, all A trains will run local.
Canal Street
Soho
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Can't sleep
03/13/03
Got a job offer today, and then had another interview go until 11:30pm, and now I'm too wired to sleep. So here are some pictures.
From the Jin Mao tower, Shanghai
Santa Fe, NM
Mountain View, CA, in an abandoned dot-com's parking lot
Shamrock, TX
Hanson Place, Brooklyn
Mike made me put in alt tags.
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Dangerous curve
03/12/03
When 20 mph is just too fast.
Sunnyvale, CA
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Just because I'm hungry
03/12/03
It's good to know that I can get every type of food there is in one convenient place, just blocks from home.
4th Avenue, Brooklyn
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Best freeway sign ever
03/11/03
Mountain View, CA
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Wet Pain
03/11/03
Fulton Street station, G train
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This is pretty
03/11/03
Lower Manhattan, from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade
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Continuing the laundromat theme
03/11/03
I don't really understand why a laundromat would "present" a restaurant. Also, all the quotation marks. But they certainly do have nice awnings. And purple!
Bedford-Stuyvesant
Those guys in front of the laundromat are cops; there were at least a half-dozen cops in the parking lot when I walked by. I'm not entirely sure why. Laundry riots? Well, there's this shooting in another Brooklyn laundromat nearby, but that was yesterday.
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Is this thing on?
03/11/03
I live above this laundromat. Hence the site name.
Fulton Street, Brooklyn