Friday, May 16, 2014

The Curious Disappearance of St. Mark's Bookshop











Bonjour, M. Perec


an Installation by Wolfgang Berkowski



When the rent climbs to $47,000 per month, it's time to seek new digs.
Good luck to St. Mark's and looking forward to browsing, buying, and especially attending author readings in the new place.

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Some of Brooklyn, Some of Manhattan including Ground Zero, and a side trip to New Haven, CT

The Chinese take-out at Nostrand and Lafayette
Waiting forever (2hrs) for the Megabus to Baltimore, standing in the hot sun, the Megabus staff being anything but kindly. Never doing that again!

Some people avail themselves of organic fruit shakes whilst waiting for their bus.


spied on Van Buren Street, Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn

spied on the kitchen table

When you're tired, mirrors and lights become the place - Cafe Lafayette, Brooklyn

A perfectly happy tree, Van Buren Street, Brooklyn
A visit to Ground Zero, as it were. They're constructing a monstrosity - a shopping mall to honor a catastrophe. It looks to be an alien spacecraft.









Into the mist


Little Italy, Manhattan

Quintessential BKLYN, Nostrand Ave. near Willoughby

Jingle jangle morning, Flatbush Ave. at Lafayette, Brooklyn - lotsa traffic

New Haven, CT, is a rough town. But who can decipher this image of who is so "murdered & missing?"

New Haven, un-lovely, except for the occasional colonial-era cupola, revealing where the coastline used to be.


A colonial-era chair on which to hang my jacket

Under the bed

This Christmas cactus dates back to the 1880s

Another thing I love to see when I visit New Haven is Marcel Breuer's Armstrong-Pirelli Tire Building, used as a billboard these days by Ikea