Posted: December 20th, 2010 | Filed under: Brooklyn, Feed, Manhattan, Out Of Town, Queens
A going-away dinner for a friend at Old Shanghai Deluxe in Manhattan’s Chinatown (by request — she was going to miss Chinese food like that).
New Long Island City items: Hook and Ladder 66, The Foundry, Metropolitan Building (funny story — I attended an art opening many years back and assumed for all this time that the people lived there and that this wasn’t actually an event space), Taxidepot (combines LIC’s two biggest industries — taxis and the film industry), Tom Cat Bakery (that’s where your bread comes from) and Z Hotel.
A page for the Queens-Midtown Tunnel compiles the ever-evolving billboards along Vernon Boulevard that are visible from the Manhattan-bound tunnel entrance (more to come as I get to them):
We already went over Washington, D.C.
Lucy the Elephant in Margate, New Jersey:
Laziza and Kabab Cafe in Astoria, Queens:
Tagging along with Jen on a work-related function at La Plaza Cultural in the East Village; never been inside there so I was excited about that:
Also, an aborted outing to the Prospect Park Bandshell.
Posted: December 8th, 2010 | Filed under: Feed, Manhattan, Queens
Already went over Play Me I’m Yours, Peru and Boston — all of which happened in July 2010. Here’s the rest . . .
NYU Langone Medical Center — the less said about that the better except to note that I now believe there could be such a thing as “reverse altitude sickness” that happens when one’s body readjusts to sea level. This is an anecdotal, not a medical, opinion.
M. Wells Diner in Long Island City is a cool use of a cool old diner. Top image is from February 2005 and the one below it is what it looks like inside now:
I always wanted to go inside the diner and never did.
We had just read Bill Buford’s Among The Thugs, so I was psyched to see Manchester United supporters with what appears to be an 18-pack of Bud in tow in the Grand Central-42nd Street Subway Station on the day of Man U’s pre-season match against the MSL Philadelphia Union franchise:
Rockaway Taco is cool because of where it is, and makes you wonder whether the daily commute into Manhattan via the A train would be all that bad.
Posted: November 29th, 2010 | Filed under: Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens
St. Anthony of Giovinazzo Street Fair in Little Italy, Manhattan.
We finally got a critical mass of pictures for Tribeca Park in Lower Manhattan.
Maujer Street in the North Brooklyn Industrial Business Zone in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and Motorino Pizza for lunch.
27th Street in Long Island City, Queens and 36th Avenue in Astoria/Long Island City.
We called what was going on at Madison Square “Barbecue Horizon” because of the two things going on there that weekend, and Old Town Bar was recently in the news because of its old urinals.
The 14th Street F-M-L-1-2-3 Subway Station had some confusion when routes and sign stickers changed.
Into July, just before leaving for Peru, the Play Me, I’m Yours pianos from Gantry Plaza State Park in Long Island City.
