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There they are

January 31st, 2012



Your two main sandwich bread options at a typical New York corner deli: hero (sub roll) and roll (kaiser roll). I guess that makes the roll an antihero.

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Eighty and Seven

January 31st, 2012



Another tribute to the victims of the Happy Land fire

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Barberz #2

January 31st, 2012



I can't believe it's taken me this long to find a second one of these. I must have obliviously passed by several others. Nonetheless, the search continues...

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It’s officially tax season!

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Fordham gneiss

January 31st, 2012



This centerpiece of an otherwise empty lot was formed more than a billion years ago.

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Oh well

January 31st, 2012



This picture would have been boring without him anyway.

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this one is actually a church.

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There is one holdout, though

January 31st, 2012



Mount Horeb is a congregation of black Jews, or Hebrew Israelites, formerly led by Rabbi Hailu Paris.

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Portal of the day

January 31st, 2012



St. Anthony of Padua Church

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St. Anthony of Padua

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Escape

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9/11 memorial #13

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Cotton candy on the move

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After photographing this wall in bewilderment, I turned around to find four gnarly-looking dudes dressed in leather sitting outside a building across the street. All appearances to the contrary (including the swastikas), the guy I talked to (wearing a backwards baseball cap in the fifth image of this slide show) was actually quite friendly. He and his comrades are members of the Ching-a-Ling Nomads motorcycle club, an offshoot of a 60s-era Puerto Rican street gang.

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Sam M. Rose

January 31st, 2012



The owner of a former — you guessed it — Chevy dealership on Fordham Road, he was apparently one of the first business owners to appear in his own TV commercials, paving the way for brilliant salesmen like these.