Sometimes I feel as though I spend half my life in a subway station.

The rhythm of the trains, the sound and the atmosphere of the station, and the bustle of other passengers become my complete reality.
It's especially good to play these three movies at the same time.

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.

Oot 'n Aboot

The Grace Building on 42nd Street, just a block or two from Times Square. I love this building.

The Grace Building lobby getting prepped for the holidays.

And at Time Square, the spectre looms.

Then later, as one approaches one's apt. building...
one notices that Guss, the super, has been hard at work.

I went to an art opening one evening, but found this couch and fire hydrant arrangement to be of greater interest - East Village.

Having a few at the local, Soda, on Vanderbilt Ave. in Brooklyn

This arrangement on Park Place, Brooklyn, persists - persistence is everything.

Morning coffee and breakfast at Tom's Restaurant, Washington Ave., Brooklyn - the haunt of cops and hipsters alike.

Lower Manhattan

Old fashioned NYC coffee shop and bar across from Grand Central Station.

Then back to Brooklyn for some accidental symmetry...

and the purplish rock-like creations of Brooklyn artist Rudy Shepherd.