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I have a theory:

July 9th, 2012



This person likes tomatoes.

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This lengthy waterway descends from the roof on the far side of the wall, runs through all those blue barrels, drops to the ground, and then turns and makes its way out toward the yard, finally terminating a couple of feet beyond the hydrangea.

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The savage summer sun

July 9th, 2012



It's beating down on nearly two million cubic yards of dirt, sand, and debris that were dumped on top of the Bronx's Ferry Point Park, a former landfill, to be used in the construction of a PGA-class public golf course paid for by developers and designed by Jack Nicklaus. But after more than a decade of false starts, escalating costs, environmental problems, and millions of wasted dollars, all the Parks Department has to show for its efforts is a fenced-off lunar wasteland.

The project's not dead yet, though! The latest scheme to be hatched involves the city footing the construction bill (now expected to run upwards of $180 million — nine times more than initially anticipated) and handing over operation of the course to none other than Donald Trump.

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A typical collection

July 9th, 2012



The garbage that gathers in an empty FDNY call box

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9/11 memorial #75

July 9th, 2012


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Portal of the day

July 9th, 2012


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Peering out

July 9th, 2012



Shackleford briefly ponders what life might be like outside the confines of Frank Bee's costume, carnival, and clown emporium here on East Tremont Avenue.

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Shadows of death

July 9th, 2012



St. Raymond's Cemetery

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He said it, not me

July 9th, 2012


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Peaches!

July 9th, 2012



They're ripening all across the city as we speak.

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Barberz #19

July 9th, 2012