Spring around the city:
Stuyvesant Street, East Village, Manhattan, April 6, 2009:
Wien Walk, Central Park, Manhattan, April 17, 2009:
Park Avenue Malls, Upper East Side, Manhattan, April 20, 2009:
Outside The Arsenal, Central Park, Manhattan, April 30, 2009:
Taxis are so ubiquitous and, like trash, you can drive yourself crazy taking pictures of them, if that’s all you’re looking for. But it’s not every day that you see an old Checker Cab:
This one was waiting on the corner of 57th and Lexington this afternoon across the street from some stupid film/television shoot — you know, the kind that you try not to notice on principle (this appeared to be several women dressed in furs in a shop window). I don’t know if the cab was related, but it was obviously one of those film prop sort of cabs . . .
I don’t know why I think Employees Must Wash Hands signs are funny, but they are. Two new ones from this weekend — Pearl Oyster Bar and Hi-Life Restaurant & Lounge:
Before it occurred to me to start taking pictures of “Employees . . .” signs, I remember a couple of creative signs — What Bar, owned by freshman State Senator Daniel Squadron, had a good one, if memory serves and Ten63, an early coffee shop in Long Island City (the cafe’s name has been co-opted by a condo development that replaced the building), had a creative one that used claim tickets, again, if I remember correctly. There’s also a whole blog devoted to the signs.
