It's already turned over twice since we were last here.
Our buddy Never is featured on the trailer this time around.
Opened in 1928; its predecessor was condemned to make way for the southward extension of Sixth Avenue.
(That's a tour bus.)
Why don't they hang out somewhere that doesn't have one of those signs?
It's not just me who thinks these ventilation systems are amazing!
This fountain, located just off Canal Street, is meant to evoke the eponymous canal that was built in the early 1800s to drain the once-vital Collect Pond, which, until befouled by the 18th-century industries that sprung up around it, had long been one of the city's most important sources of fresh water.
(I prefer yellow with orange trim, but to each his own.)
I was sitting on a park bench beside the Canal Street canal-fountain thingy when I looked up and saw my buddy Steve Duncan leading a tour of Minetta Brook and the Canal Street canal. Both waterways are now underground, having been incorporated into the city's sewer system, which helps explain why that guy is peering into that manhole with a flashlight.
The two skyscrapers under construction are (left to right) Four World Trade Center and One World Trade Center.
I bought some cherries from a nearby stand. They were not very good.
This ten-story structure was once the headquarters of The Forward, a Jewish Socialist newspaper (one of the busts just above the sidewalk shed is Karl Marx). The building served an intermediate stint as a Chinese church before becoming what it was really meant to be all along: luxury condos!
Teams from around the US and Canada have come to Seward Park (the first permanent, municipally built playground in the country) to play in this annual Chinese-American volleyball tournament.
Sitting in the middle of the La Guardia Houses, this bathhouse was abandoned long ago, but there are calls to put the building back in service as a recreation center.
I was walking through the darkening streets of the East Village when I came upon an older gentleman taking his dog for a stroll. I noticed the colorful tiles artfully glued to his walking cane, and put two and two together: Jim Power! He's been struggling with some health problems lately — you can support him by checking out his website, where you can watch a wonderful short film that tells his story and shows off many of his new works.
