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Pied-a-terre

11/29/03

Soundview, The Bronx

 

Longwood, The Bronx

 

The Hub, The Bronx

 

I scooped the Times.

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Offseason

11/28/03

Near Yankee Stadium, The Bronx

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Happy Thanksgiving

11/27/03

Longwood, The Bronx

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Out of place

11/26/03

Jackson Heights, Queens. Eid is not a Jewish holiday.

 

Longwood, The Bronx

 

Meatpacking District

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OFFICE.

11/24/03

Belvidere Street, Williamsburg/Bushwick/Bed-Stuy wasteland, Brooklyn

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Reminders

11/23/03

PATH trains return to the World Trade Center today.

Midtown

 

Crown Heights, Brooklyn

 

Downtown

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Fordham

11/22/03

Third Avenue, Fordham, The Bronx

 

East Fordham Road, Fordham, The Bronx

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Glory be

11/21/03

West Farms Square, The Bronx

 

East Tremont, The Bronx

This is a restaurant. Alas, it was closed when I visited.

University Heights, The Bronx

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Hall of Fame

11/18/03

The Hall of Fame for Great Americans, the first hall of fame ever built, has a fascinating history and was once one of New York City's best-known tourist attractions -- but that was before New York University moved downtown and left the Hall to a rather lesser institution. Now it's mostly forgotten.

Robert Fulton, whose own fame is currently endangered.

University Heights, The Bronx

 

For help with an ongoing photo project, I'm looking for volunteers in or near the following cities who could take one photo of a specific thing for me. Please email if you can help: mike [at] satanslaundromat.com

• Los Angeles
• Trenton
• Philadelphia
• Rochester, NY
• Orlando
• Beaufort, SC
• Petersburg, VA
• UK cities: London, Poole, Colindale, Hendon, Willesden Green, Hounslow, Wembley, Gloucester, Manchester, Oldham, Ilford, Romford

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Fame and infamy

11/17/03

Two weekends, two accidental Sopranos run-ins. Last weekend was the pork store, and now this: Michael Imperioli, who plays Christopher Moltisanti, Tony's heroin-addicted nephew.

2 train, Manhattan

 

Chinatown. S. Jarmulowsky's Bank failed spectacularly.

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Greenway

11/16/03

Mayor Bloomberg opened the last pieces of a greenway circling Manhattan to great fanfare last month.

It's a bit spotty and easy to get lost in places (especially Dyckman Street), and at one point the route takes you miles from the water. The path varies from fifteen feet wide to about three feet wide, and from desolate (near the sewage treatment plant at 145th Street) to choked with tourists (whose bright idea was it to route it right through Battery Park?), but on the whole it's a definite step forward. I can't wait for the long-promised Brooklyn waterfront greenway.

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Mythical land beyond the sea

11/15/03

Newark, NJ

 

Harrison, NJ. If I ever start a band, it will be called "Bfst fop mfx, womfh liver relaxing." Or possibly "Gelatinous Mutant Coconut."

 

Hoboken, NJ (more)

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Thou shalt not

11/12/03

Somebody's going to hell.

Kearny, NJ

 

Kearny, NJ

 

Harrison, NJ

 

Switching from thou-shalt-nots to thou-shalts, I like nassio.com/empty, Vegas trip photos, and GELATINOUS MUTANT COCONUT. Also, photoblogs.org, despite the annoying b in its name, has rapidly become the canonical photolog clearinghouse.

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Jersey meat

11/10/03

Harrison, NJ

 

Kearny, NJ

 

Kearny, NJ. Look familiar? It should.

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One-stop shopping

11/09/03

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Last California entry, I swear

11/05/03

This used to be an active marina until the city stopped dredging the bay.

Alviso, CA

 

Mountain View, CA

 

Oakland, CA

 

Guides to New York City, the subway and (via Gawker) the Chinatown bus.

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SF Mission, part 3

11/05/03

The Mission, San Francisco, CA

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SF Mission, part 2

11/04/03

The Mission, San Francisco, CA

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SF Mission, part 1

11/04/03

The Mission, San Francisco, CA

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In the details

11/03/03

Are any other city's street signs as instantly recognizable as San Francisco's? Besides, maybe, Paris?

San Francisco, CA

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SF Chinatown

11/03/03

Chinatown, San Francisco, CA (more TransAmerica Pyramid)

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Pig Latin for "beast"

11/02/03

San Leandro, CA

 

Fremont, CA

 

Oakland, CA

 

Richmond, CA

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Culinary delights of San Jose

11/02/03

Downtown San Jose, CA

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Trona, armpit of America

11/01/03

Trona is quite possibly the worst place in America, if not the world. Many cities have pleasant little slogans on their welcome signs ("San Jose: Capital of Silicon Valley", "Tehachapi: Land of Four Seasons", "Welcome to Brooklyn: How sweet it is!", and so on); Trona has this:

I suspect the sign is a bit out of date, though, as this is the only gas station in town:

And this is the motel. The reason it needs so many "open" signs? All the windows visible from the street are shattered and/or boarded up.

The whole town has a rancid chemical odor from the chemical plant that's pretty much the only employer in town, and the two older residential districts are half-abandoned, with many burned-out houses. (The newest residential district is not yet decaying, but give it time; land is so cheap that houses are more or less disposable. And once the newest district is abandoned, Trona is pretty much SOL, as that one is right up against the county line.)

Even in the nicest areas, the front lawns are just dirt, with occasional scrub or cacti. The town is so polluted that grass simply won't grow. (Trona High School's football team plays on one of only two dirt playing fields in the United States; the other is glacial silt in Juneau, Alaska.)

Trona, CA

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Painted on

11/01/03

San Francisco, CA

 

Mountain View, CA

 

Richmond, CA

 

Oakland, CA

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