Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn

Train yard graffiti

Train yard graffiti looks like a cross between skulls
and Mexican wrestlers' masks

Hot bird

Constructivist corner of the warehouse below

Warehouse along Atlantic

The squat building on the right,
looks like just the top floor at street level.

Atlantic Ave. rail yards and vicinity

Development of the Atlantic Ave. train yards
in progress.

What's left of the train yards - old tracks that used to
carry trains into Atlantic Ave. Station

Looking across the train yards below street level
from Atlantic Ave. to a block along Pacific Ave.

Big Brooklyn buildings on the Pacific side of the train yards

Jewish community center just off of Pacific Ave.

Classic Brooklyn stoop, Pacific Ave.

St. Marks Place, Brooklyn

A wonderful grand entrance

A fine example of a New York jerry-rigged building

I like the glass tile windows a lot in this building.
A well-cared for restored old warehouse.

Whilst walking in the Borough of Brooklyn

A whole building tucked away behind Park Place and
Washington Ave. - visible only because
whatever had been in front of it was torn down.

At Washington and Pacific

Auto shop, Washington Ave.

C Town supermarket, Washington Ave. near Park Place

Remnants of the former neighborhood, Washington Ave.

Detective agency across from my apartment building

walking west on 26th st., chelsea

water towers on a bluesky winter day

w. 26th street

video art at white box gallery

video art exhibit at white box gallery

26th st. looking west towards new jersey

art park

a classic west side gas station,

unfazed by the art dealers just across the street

aboard the crosstown m23 at 8th ave.

the beginning of it's run

crosstown m23

beautiful old chelsea tenement
6th ave & 23rd st.

23rd st. chelsea - chunky buildings & water towers

Met Life bldg, one of New York's first skyscrapers
at Madison Square, 23rd St. & Broadway

a lot of father frosts having fun? or working...

father frosts at b'way & 23rd - it's a job!
giving out free keychains for russian television

on the no. 6 bus heading downtown

Rockefeller Center and St. Patrick's Catheral - Tree Mad Crowds Protesters

23 December. Took the Q train to 34th St. and then a D to 47th-50th. Walked through 2 lower levels of Rockefeller Center - all marble and gold and black. Once outside, the tree directly in front of me. The tree was lovely and the tourists were having fun.
My cynicism was at a minimum for just a few moments. Soon the crowds became too pressing, distracting, awful so I crossed over to St. Patrick's and was fortunate to find a group of anti-torture protesters in front of the cathedral. Chatted with a couple of them and picked up a flyer. Went into St. Patrick's and there were throngs of people - more and more people. The story of Jesus and the money lenders in the temple came to mind. Piety was at a premium. Even an atheist like me, who has also protested outside the Cathedral, would like people and their children to talk in hushed tones.
Photos of a day out.

Protest information:
International Day to Shut Down Guantanamo
Friday, January 11, 2008

Gather @ 10:00 AM
National Mall @ 12th Street NW betw Madison Dr NW & Jefferson Drive SW
near the Smithsonian Metro Stop

11:00 AM Demontration on the Mall
Sponsored by Witness Against Torture, Amnesty International, & National Religious Campaign Against Torture

1:30 PM Funeral Ceremony @ the Supreme Court remembering the four men who died in custody at Guantanamo and mourning the death of Habeas Corpus

http://www.witnesstorture.org