I'll Take Manhattan...And Brooklyn, Too

A front yard tableau on Park Place near the 7th Ave. Q Train Station

A mysterious staircase at Penn Station, going even further underground.

Richard Meier's new condominium on Eastern Parkway is almost completed, and one hears that Beyonce has bought the penthouse for $1,000,000.

And a great evening spent at The Stonewall Inn on Christopher St. in Greenwich Village.

The next day, I was passing a construction site and decided to go inside and see what they were constructing. Expensive condos in Ft. Greene.

An old car from the early 1970s looks good under glow of streetlights on E. 4th Street, Manhattan's East Village.


The lobby of the Millenium Film Workshop.

On the Q train back to Brooklyn...then
finding a tree on St. John's Place that has been decorated with icons of hope.

A curious red, white and blue architectural scenario - expensive condos going up in Crown Heights.
And this junction of new and old - condos built by Mexican laborers abutting a poor neighborhood church.

When you take the air conditioner out of the window, you may be surprised at what's been living on your windowsill. It could be the largest fly you ever saw.

Down the street...
and into Prospect Park, about a week and a half ago, when Indian Summer gave us a few warm sunny days.

There was a tree like this across from our house in Lancaster, PA when I was growing up. I don't know the name, but we called it an Indian Pipe tree.

Back to Lower Manhattan.

A row of townhouses on E. 28th Street, on the way from the No. 6 Train to Bellevue Hospital for some 'scripts.

Once again, the Richard Meier building, which I am beginning to like.

Day laborers waiting for a work assignment on Washington Ave. This is the first time I've seen this outside of California, but I know it's fairly common. Maybe I should join them tomorrow.

The next few are from the Gowanus Canal, Brooklyn.

The goddess only knows where this lobby exists. Lower Manhattan, most likely.

At the MIX Festival of Queer Experimental Film and Video, New York City

In the lobby of the Mix Queer Experimental Film & Video Festival venue (the place was once a Liz Claiborne clothing shop) an installation of mannequins and light boxes...

...and glitter and the guts of video cameras...

and the hallway, with its sparkling blue floor, led to tiny rooms, formerly dressing rooms, each with its own light show...

"Light Culture 3" by Larry Ackerman (2008)

...this wall is part of an installation called "Asbury Juke Joint" by Christine Callahan and Jenne Mischo (2008)

(title and artist unk, sorry!)

...and then I spent some time in artist Kenny Scharf's installation, "Closet #26" (2008) - a visit back in time to the 1980s...

...then on to a video piece that projects an image onto fine white powder, called "A Sense of Place or Apres moi, le deluge" by Desireena Almoradie (2006)

and another dressing room - first shot taken with the camera flash, the next showing the installation as it is meant to be seen...

...and onto artist Effi Asili's Obama quilt wall, part of his installation called "P.S.A. (Public Service Announcement)" (2008)

...ending in the upstairs lounge, where there was a large video wall projection, called "STODGY: Store/Story/Body/Orgy," by Jessica Dellecave...all at this year's Mix Queer Experimental Film and Video Festival!