Various Spaces and Places

A pharmacist and his wares, NYC.

Art exhibit, Chelsea - Taylor Davis's sculptures.

Staircase, above, at Yale University Art Museum; below, at a Tribeca loft building.

Santa's at Grand Central.

Pizza parlor pugilists, E. 14th Street, East Village.

Outdoor lighting, 10th Ave, Chelsea

Store window display, to maximum effect. Me, transfixed by the multiplicity of ideas present.

Dirt...there you have it.

Mystery photo

A vegetable called 'Buddha's Hand', which I may not be able to cut open, cook or eat.

New Haven workplace, just after 5PM.
And three store window displays, below, New Haven.

Train station, above, and trains below, New Haven.

Cops in New Haven arrest a man who is saying "Tell me why I'm under arrest..."
They take him to the squad car and there he sits, in handcuffs, in the back seat.
Don't they have to tell you why they're taking you in?

Cody's Cafe, New Haven - the best place in town...

...where the portions, as well as the waitresses, are quite large.

Several scenes...

Brooklyn: ambulette breaks through an iron fence and crashes into an apartment building
causing damage to a couple of bicycles along the way.

No one hurt, but someone thought to represent the accident with a display of crutches at the scene.

And a restaurant in Tribeca, seized by the State of New York for non-payment of taxes. Another casualty of the financial meltdown, most likely.

And a crack'd mirror at a gallery in Chelsea, Good Friday.
Then it's uptown to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine for a little penance. But first, the very scary statue, titled Fountain of Peace, by Greg Wyatt, in the Children's Garden at the Cathedral .

And then inside the Cathdral, the crucifix draped in purple, and a few souls gather to hear the jazz band, and to think about things now that winter has finally passed. Some to pray. But to whom?

A Day in Manhattan

Urban symmetry at Hudson and W. 14th Street. I always liked this building. I took a writing class here once with the fabulous Laurie Weeks.

W. 14th Street Meat Packing, MePa for all you shoppers out there.

W. 14th Street is becoming gentrified in a scary way - designer shops replace streets that felt safe to certain street-roaming types. Now they just feel expensive, i.e. not so safe.

Further uptown a bit, on W. 21st St. in Chelsea, there is a curious building that has many balconies, all closed in with wire fencing and bamboo-looking shades. Altogether unattractive, but attractive just the same.

Sometimes one feels the urge for complete symmetry. In that situation, go to Grand Central Terminal.

A busker at the Delancey Street F subway stop. I should've caught more of the performance, but got just enough to give you an idea of how calming his playing was on the crowd waiting for the train.