2nd Ave Deli

I love the blank slateness of this.

88Laight

88 Laight, not as acclaimed as its neighbors but pretty cool for having "solarail" balconies. Apparently the glass on the balconies is made of some kind of solar panel. There's more on the building's website.

There used to be a big sign on the building about Solarail, that's how I knew about it.

The usual suspects

Drama

This is a crappy hip shot, out of focus, etc but since I'm always looking for people pictures that show some kind of emtion, I'm at least pleased with the body language in this. They don't need to be in focus to recognize the emotional dynamic.

For what it's worth, this is Greenwich Ave across from Benny's. On zooming in I'm not sure the person in blue is entirely a woman.

Village Pizza

I'm really pleased with how this came out. I took a few, with different crowds and configuations of people but I like how the people are spaced in this one and I like that they each almost have their own story. Even the bicycle and the hydrant look like they have a story.

Wheels on fire

I can't remember if I've photographed this before - or something like it. The flame-looking color is cast in the wheel rubber. Very neat.

Sky walk

Truck stop

Truck stop in Connecticut. Fox News on the TV, gambling screens at the counter, NASCAR jackets in the store area. It's like a wormhole to Alabama.
I wish I could remember the name. Something like "Food America."

Park

Fruit shots

It has horns

Under the tree

I don't know, it was something about the colors. For some reason every storfront and building facade looked good to me this weekend. Even with cars in front.

Hanging

Corvette

32nd and 5th Ave

I can't think of the last time I walked up 5th Avenue. I took this on the way to take some shots of the new 2nd Ave Deli and was really amazed at all the cool buildings in the area. Cool old hotels, some great old row houses. It only makes sense, it's an old part of town. Still, we don't think of it because it's all in the shadow of the Empire State Building.

In the pit

Memories

Red Mango opening on Bleeker near MacDougal

This guy just walked right up and stood in the doorway like he was in charge of the place. Eventually he wandered off with some addled muttering. If he's been in the neighborhood for as long as it looks like he has, I can't even imagine how many places he's seen come and go in this storefront on Bleeker near MacDougal. What does he see when he looks in that door?

That corner is now a seafood restaurant but I still see the poster shop that was there in the late 80s/early 90s.

N6th Street Art Gallery

I haven't been down this block in a couple weeks so these may not be new but given the activities of "the splasher" it's best to shoot these things quick before they disappear.

Everything's opening at once!

It's like Spring!

Lokal is open

That new Japanese place on Bedford, Mizu is open:

Blackbird opened

Miranda didn't open yet but it got a sign:

And it looks like I missed a couple. Alia opened, if you can believe that, and a new place with no name across the street from it.

You'll flip over Williamsburg

7-11 Sunset

I once saw a series of photographs of common American small town (not cute-small, just not city) intersections and parking lots. I was amazed that the photographer was able to see beauty in these settings. Even though I still thought the parking lot was ugly I could appreciate his application of an artistic eye to the setting. Anyway, whenever I'm in a setting where I wish there was either more trees or more concrete I think of that photo series and try to see a picture.

Apple picking

Tractor

Color bars

Bolts

Black Orchid

Nashua, NH

UPS guy takedown

Wow, they arrested thsoe guys next to the UPS truck, right next to the UPS guy who... OH! They arrested teh UPS guy!?!?. What do you have to do to get arrested as the UPS guy while you're working?

Kasjan Bakery

Manhattan Ave between Nassau and Norman, this is my new doughnut source, sorry Peter Pan.

That's raspberry. They're only 70 cents. I prefer the glazed to the powdered.

Smiling faces

Garden building

This is across the street from the Flower Box Building. Makes for an interesting contrast.

Green/Yello

Gate 8

Red corner

The framing feels off in this, like I should have aimed higher or cropped some of that sidewalk away to lift the focus. I wanted to keep all those sidewalk polka dots but that accidentally put the lock and a sort of X in the center of the photo.

Green hideawy

There are people in there if you look close.

Creepy naked life sized child doll

What is that, some kind of giant Barbie?

Fire escape ghouls

Some local items

Brooklyn Industries opens a little Scion dealership - test drives and everything - on Bedford Ave. yesterday.

Mergers and acquisitions. Shanghai Lee, which has a brand new sign, gives up its spot on Manhattan Ave at the end of Bedford Ave. just outside the G stop. Anticipation....

Bedford and N9th, this place has been behind plywood for at least a year and a half. No visible permits to see what's going on.

Though no BPC turkey, this partridge-like bird is pretty exotic for the parking lot of Automotive High School. The neighbor who identified it as a "Chucker" said he had also seen a parakeet and a red tailed hawk (with squirrel) in the past few hours. It's a friggin' safari.

Radegast cometh

From 41st. toward 42 & 8th

Happy Pulaski Day

Stuffed store

Mobile

At first I thought this photo was done for - a total disaster with that brightly colored circle way off on the edge. But the more I look at it the less I hate it. I still wish I'd gotten the shot off before the cab came, and the eye definitely follows an odd path, but I don't totally hate it.

Newsstand

Serenity

Shade gateway

Big windows

Sunny's throwback

Lighting master

This guy made his hot dog cart look like a circus tent.

Sitting standby

I think they're waiting for tickets. I was surprised at the colors here. Good time of day to shoot, just before dusk when the building lights contribute to the ambient light.

55 St. Deli

I think I take this every time I pass.

Making Makers

Tats Cru did a really amazing job with this.

That weird igloo thing down in Petrochino park

Overpass

I loathe this 'train to pokipsie' guy. Isn't it some kind of book promotion? Spell the damn thing right.

Frankie's

That guy at the bar seemed a lot more dramatic in person. I left it big here because I think it's easier to feel it at that size. I'm wondering if I lightened it too much - if it should be more sillhouette-ish.

Stack

Making bait

Junkyard spread

Speed Limit 35

Trolley stop

Black and white

She even has a Cruella hair do.

Dubious dining room

Goldman Sachs coming up

That thing is going to seriously blot out the sky.

Sunbeam

W sales office

Kind of ridiculous but I like the lighting.

The Flowerbox Building

New York Dock

Pier with Ikea

This is actually a really huge photo. If your machine can handle it, take a look at the original size on the Flickr page.

Bus row

Graffiti Gates