Brooklyn, Queens, and Life Underground

 

I came home yesterday to this large sign hanging from the roof. What's goin' on?

This explains it nicely. I joined in and made calls to Michigan on the President's behalf.

The corner of 45th and Jackson, Long Island City, Queens

And a Mexican Restaurant in Williamsburg.

The jury-rigged house on the corner of Nostrand and Lafayette Aves., Brooklyn, and below, a small rat transports a large fragment of pizza crust across the subway tracks (sorry for the blurriness -- camera was just not up to shooting an action scene in low light).

 

 

At the NY Art Book Fair, Dr. Laurie Weeks reads from her recent essay about Nicole Eisenman's work. Great, and gorgeous, as usual.

 

Views out the window. Sometimes it's good to stare out a window whilst being read to.

A $20,000 book and the NY Art Book Fair.

The book can only be opened by an expert.

A sample page from the $20,000 book -- all glitter -- with a dark slice of my shadow running up the center.

United States Post Office, Brooklyn, and other adventures

A trip to the slowest Post Office in America, Times Plaza Station, Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn,
with religious peace & love advocates at the crossroads, handing out life-saving/shattering information for the New Year, to read on the subway, perhaps.

While the real deal is to be had a few stops away at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, inside the majick of the new snowfall.

Thanking the goddess, I head home to the funny, funky reality of life on Park Place, with messages from the super, Guss, and a refrigerator in the lobby.

A second-hand store in East Williamsburg does NOT want to take down its Obama sign.

Then in Red Hook, I visit the Ikea.

Other streets, Manhattan.

Buildings, Situations + Close-ups, NYC + BKLYN: My 100th Posting

Cleopatra's Needle, Central Park, behind the Metropolitan Museum.

A translation of some of the hieroglyphs etched on a stone beneath the obelisk:
"(The Son of Ra, Thutmose) may he live for ever."

Sometimes one may get the wrong train and end up at a station like this one, Smith & 9th Sts., Brooklyn. Feels like the ends of the earth, the back of beyond.

The cops seem to be testing an indiscreet surveillance unit on Washington Ave., Brooklyn.

Recycling night, Lafayette Street, NYC.

And directly across the street, the pink and ocher glow of the back of the 19th C. Grace Church Cathedral.

Lobbies, noted.

And this beautifully decorated column on a building near the Public Theater, Lafayette St., NYC.

A shop display, Lafayette St., late at night; below, parking New York style.

Street art, Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

And further over, in Clinton Hill, a statement of hope.

The clock on the Virgin Megastore at Union Square. What the hell time IS it?

War is Over! in Manhattan, too.

Store window display of old irons.

And a heavily impastoed ad site in the F train station.