Police car and taxi collide. Who ran the red light at Union Square East and 14th Street?
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Posted on 4/22/2007
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Sometimes what goes on behind plywood remains a secret, unknown to the casual passerby. At other times, when we can see demolition taking place, it is breathtaking, whereas at other times banal or merely inconsequential. Yet this crew of men with sledgehammers strikes at the heart of the matter: smash the building from the top down. Absent the usual blue or green paint, the plain plywood looks garish, especially in conjunction with the repeating signs: DANGER KEEP OUT - NO PARKING - DANGER HARD HAT AREA. Everything screams: cheap demolition on the fly. A minor smackdown. One guy pushes the broom around, and the scene is relatively quiet. You have to wonder if those Voice and Onion containers will even get a coating of dust on them.
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Posted on 6/1/2006
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Ye olde labor unrest image: standing on the picket line, warming one's hands by the fire (image: New York Times)
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Posted on 12/20/2005
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Fascinating insights into the mentality of various New Yorkers can frequently be found taped on lampposts or stuck inside the transparent front covers of streetside boxes for the Village Voice, New York Press, and Learning Annex. It is a uniquely American phenomenon that hearkens back to Colonial days of pamphleteers. Fotoblogger snapped this one in Chelsea, which apparently concerns a rather bizarre situation that an apparently elderly person wishes to protest—on perhaps appropriately peach-colored paper with hot pink tape. The penmanship alone suggests deep distress; note the word "violently" was violently double-underlined.
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Posted on 10/21/2005
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Busy 6th Ave @ West 4th Street is seeing a dramatic transformation, and this low-slung building that was most recently home to yet another chain drugstore looks like it's going high rise. Meanwhile, you can see some ancient layers of Greenwich Village behind the scaffolding. And what do you think about the advertising-draped scaffolding? Sure, I get tired of the standard blue or green scaffolding, but isn't it an eyesore? Isn't NYC supersaturated already with billboards and nontraditional advertising? Fotoblogger has a theory about scaffolding: there is nowhere to store it. So when the men (it's always men) come to take it down, they immediately have to erect it somewhere else.
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Posted on 9/16/2005
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