that hand would be dressed up as a giant turkey for Thanksgiving.
I didn't know bread distribution companies existed, but several different ones were making their pickups today, including Bo Tav, Powerhouse, and Bullseye.
Taking advantage of the city's ban on personal electronic devices in public schools, these trucks set up shop outside high schools and, for a dollar apiece, store kids' phones while they're in class.
This school has its own planetarium!
While we're on the subject, sort of, here's an important Truman-related factoid: The US has had two presidents with the middle initial "S". Harry S. Truman's middle name was simply S (he generally signed his name with a period after the "S" even though it didn't stand for anything). Ulysses S. Grant was born Hiram Ulysses Grant. The congressman who nominated him to West Point mistakenly wrote his name as "Ulysses S. Grant", and Grant just continued using that appellation going forward.
When an apartment complex has 55,000 residents, I guess it makes sense for it to have its own power supply. After major renovations a few years ago, this facility became NYC's first trigeneration plant.
We'll get a much closer look at the towering Bronx Victory Memorial in Pelham Bay Park sometime in the future, but here it is from afar.
I'm not certain of this, because I was pretty far away, but I believe there is a wild parrot nest at the top of that light pole (located where I-95 cuts through Pelham Bay Park), and that hawk was, to no avail, checking the nest for tasty morsels. You can see what looks like a parrot nest in a larger version of this photo, and I could hear some raucous, parrot-like squawking in the area. Perhaps some of the birds resettled here after their homes at the park's nearby ball fields were removed during renovations a couple of years ago.
Here we are, back at that dump of a stable on Pelham Parkway that was largely torn down a few years ago when it was discovered to have been illegally built on DOT property. Even though the building has been declared unfit for human occupation, there is, last I heard, one poor horse still living inside.
UPDATE (Dec. 28, 2014): The owner and another guy live here too!
UPDATE (Apr. 29, 2015): NY Times — "A Squatter’s Last Stand at a Condemned Bronx Barn"
Because you can't very well kick a gentleman in the face with your drawers a-droopin'.
Contained inside the original — behind one of those diamond-patterned window screens, in fact
In the background are a small gift box and an empty package of Plan B.
I think this was a wise business move for Mr. Obama — you can't just rely on fried chicken and credit repair.
UPDATE: You can find some info on this place and the man behind it here.
Well, this is where it used to be, before Sandy's storm surge swept much of the five-mile-long boardwalk off its piers.
If Mayor Bloomberg has his way, this is the last wooden boardwalk the Rockaways will ever see.
