I spotted this sign at LaGuardia Airport's Marine Air Terminal. Is the manager of airport operations a fan of Godzilla, or did a prankster co-worker put up the sign to prevent a Godzilla-hating manager from being able to park in his or her own spot?
This is an amazingly bountiful little yard: tall rows of corn, a couple of fruit trees, and all kinds of vines stretching around back. It was too dark to see the vines well, but here's what they looked like a year ago.
Cutty's is where the late Knicks forward Anthony Mason went to get his cranial canvas carved by Freddy Avila, "the Rembrandt of Barbers".
at the finish line of the Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race
at the finish line of the Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race. He's the fourth person to finish the race this year, and is treated to the same victory songs and ambrosial cake as everyone else who completes the 5,649 laps of the block within the allotted 52 days. (The horn-like sounds you hear when people start cheering are made by guys blowing conch shells.)
Ashprihanal was the first to cross the finish line this year, and did so in record time: 40 days, 9 hours, 6 minutes, and 21 seconds, more than 23 hours faster than the previous record-holder.
An old painted plea for noggin safety here at the 169th Street F train station
Day 1308
Today’s route — 3.3 miles
July 30th, 2015
For today's walk, I joined Dan Fleischer for a brief stretch of his "Manhattan thru-hike". Dan is an experienced long-distance hiker from Portland, Oregon, and he decided to spend his three-week summer vacation walking every street on the island of Manhattan. During his trek, he refrained from using any form of transportation other than walking, heading out each morning on foot to get to his starting point and returning home at night the same way. (He rented three places in different parts of Manhattan for a week each, which helped reduce the amount of back-and-forth walking he had to do each morning and evening.) Hoofing it more than 30 miles per day — and probably closer to 35 — he covered every street on the island in a single continuous trail of footsteps, hence the "thru-hike" part of the name.
Memorial #127 can be found outside the 13th Precinct police station. I photographed the main part of the memorial when I first passed by back in 2013. Here are a couple of additional components that I must not have noticed at the time.
The truck reflected in this plaque is dedicated in memory of Officer McDonnell.
