Browsing the archives for the New York category

Irene Equals Evacuation

This is a scene from this morning after Hurricane Irene (or Tropical Storm Irene, depending on who is reporting) made landfall at Coney Island. This is North Cove Marina featuring the World Financial Center in the background. Our apartment complex is just off screen to the right, and on slightly higher ground. The water here [...]

Week in the Life, Day 2

Tuesday, July 26 (waking hours from 5am to 11pm) Favorite moment of the day: Riding home from work, while I was stopped at a red light at Pier 40, this very lean, very good looking runner came out of the Pier 40 parking area headed uptown on the path. He simply wore skimpy running shorts. He [...]

Happy Fourth of July from 1 WTC

One World Trade Center dominates the view to the northeast for us as it’s now over 70 stories tall and growing taller at the rate of about one story per week. The building’s construction crew have decked out the building for Independence Day, making the floors red, white and blue. They did something similar this [...]

The 2011 Rainbow Book Fair

Click here for more information about the authors and events at this this years fair.

Mid-Week Party Song Pick Me Up: Party Girl by Xelle

Though I’m dubious of their “single take” claim (is that a cut at 2:44?), it’s still damn impressive that they shot the whole thing on a moving train (no easy feat believe me).

UnderCity

It’s all illegal, completely crazy and totally awesome. UNDERCITY from Andrew Wonder on Vimeo.

9 Years On…

This morning marks the ninth anniversary of the horrific events from 9/11/01. It’s a disturbing anniversary too as this year there’s a lot going on that is perverting the remembrance from what it should be into things that are distasteful. The right tone was set with the first anniversary memorial ceremony. Family members who’d lost [...]