This expansive 7,000-square-foot painting (the second NASA-sponsored Martian mural we've seen) covers multiple walls of the Bronx's PS 64. It was created for the Mars Millennium Project back in 2000 by students trying to imagine what life might be like on the Red Planet.
Here's a closer look.
His estate has mostly died down for the winter, but he's still hanging in there. His female companion was huffing up the hill right behind him as I snapped this shot.
This brash list of NOs and its saucy sibling read like they were bought at a novelty store, but they're official city DOT signs. "Trenchant, unvarnished, and a little intemperate", they date back to the days of, and sound like they came from the mouth of, Ed Koch (may he rest in peace in his ridiculous cemetery plot). They're the brainchildren of none other than Gridlock Sam*, who served as traffic commissioner under Mayor Koch.
* Mr. Schwartz supposedly also writes columns under the name "Gridlock Shmuel" for the Yiddish News Report. I can't find any direct evidence of this, but I'd love to believe it's true.
We've seen a lot of close-but-not-quite 9/11 memorials lately. Here's another one.
Scaffolding now adorns the domed tower of the Daughters of Jaco(b) nursing home. Here's a great shot of the building from sometime around the 1930s.
