Saturday, October 4, 2014

"I spy with my little eye"

these are everywhere - green taxis for the boroughs

the Cedar Tree Garden on Greene and Franklin, Clinton Hill


I have to hang out to make sure this woman is being treated alright by the cops. I think they're trying to help her rather than trying to harass her.

This is what I got for $17 at the Hattie Carthan Farmer's Market.

Yoga font spotted on Fulton Street near Nostrand Ave.

Recycling digital and electronic items, Marcy Ave.

An old snow cone vendors cart with Mexican tchotchkes and flowers.

time for photos of autumn in the park - Von King Park, Brooklyn


the house that formerly was covered in blue (see post from about a week ago)

the corner of Lafayette & Nostrand Aves. - busy!


The jury-rigged building on Lafayette & Nostrand - endlessly fascinating to me the way the occupant is re-fitting the ground floor facade to suit a not-immediately-apparent function.

the jury-rigging, close-up

I love this cat.



relaxing at the Civil Service (used to be the Tiny Cup) on Nostrand at Clifton, Brooklyn - could be the last warm day we have for a while
the Dutch style wood frame house with a brick ground-floor extension, Quincy Street, Brooklyn


Early morning, Von King Park


what's it all about, Alfie?



This house used to be the haunt of a couple of neighborhood junkies. Then the cops raided the house and the junkies are gone, and the house is literally falling apart. Van Buren Street.

Please fix this up! Van Buren Street.



The crowd at the Art Book Fair at PS1 in Queens last weekend...a bunch of hip smart avid readers, it looks like to me...











This was once covered in the best grafitti



Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Billowing blue building on Van Buren Street, Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn

A wrapped building just a block from my house. 


Stay with it for a minute and watch the wind move between the building and the blue covering...and the background sounds are of a little tailgate party happening just down the block.

Monday, September 22, 2014

People's Climate Change March, 6th Avenue, New York

At first, people waiting and milling around. I'm with the Zen Center/Zen Mountain Monastery. Everyone's in a pretty good mood.





































The march finally begins.













as we come around Columbus Circle, we see the thousands of marchers who have come down from the higher avenues, waiting for us to pass so they can join the march




Cops doing their job - what we used to call "the white shirt" (from olden days of NYC protests), who is the guy in charge - telling us (all 10,000 of us) to "hurry up" so the other marchers can join us. Hurry up?




We pass Central Park and a group of meditators, and lots of onlookers and happy supporters sitting on rocks.. 






 A good place to have your drinks cart - everyone's thirsty!

























The Hare Krishnas were amazing. They provided lots of great spirit and a fantastic sound track to the march.

Getting closer to 42nd Street and the end of the march.