Jen 'n' me at Grand Central, via 
Strike watch: Day 1
[Link and photo source: NYTimes]
I'm staying home, at least for the time being. If I could get to Grand Central, I could catch Metro-North to Westchester County (just north of NYC), where my boss could pick me up every morning. But getting to Grand Central is tremendous "if" because we've been completely unable to find a way to make it work.
Jen found a ride via Craig's List; she walks about a quarter mile to Broadway and Flushing Ave. to meet her drivers every morning at 8am. They'll drop her off at 34th and Park in Manhattan, from which point she'll walk to 51st and Lex. In the evening, she's on her own to get home, but her firm is providing a daily stipend for parking, cabs, or car services, so assuming Jen can catch a cab or car service, that's how she'll get home.
To hell with the MTA and TWU for not reaching terms sooner and avoiding this horrific mess.
Permalink | |
Boobs and the bird
Another reason I love New York: As nice as the boobs are, it's the reaction of the guy at the next table... (If you're at work, catch a clue from the word boobs, okay? Thanks.)Permalink | |
Cameraphone
If you look immediately below this post, you should see a Flickr image, posted from my cameraphone. (Sorry, JOSH, it's an image, not a text post.) Yes, after four years with a crappy Nokia straight from the era of Ricardos and Cleavers, I finally have a phone that enables me to take and post pictures, read email, control the Space Shuttle, and perform cardiac surgery. (By the way, you wanna hear something dumb? My new phone is a Motorola, and one of the ringtones plays this goofy little ditty followed by the voice of some Eurotrash dude going "Hello, Moto." I think they use this in commercials. Anyway, everytime I hear it, I giggle. Yes, I'm that dumb.) So, I love having a camphone. Hop on over to Flickr (the image below links to my photostream) and see what I'm seeing.
Fog over NYC
Not my photo. Click small image for larger image on originating website.
Permalink | |
Delacorte, behind the scenes
Central Park's Delacorte Theater, home to Shakespeare in the Park:
Permalink | |
Brooklyn cab
A lone taxicab drives through the quiet streets of Flatbush following a snowstorm that blanketed the East Coast. 2/18/03 – New York, New York via KottkePermalink | |
Prospect Cemetary
Following up on yesterday's post, Satan's Laundromat and ForgottenNY have photos from Prospect Cemetery.Permalink | |
[Photobloggers at SoHo Apple
The Apple store is hosting several NYC-based photobloggers next Thursday (Feb. 26). They'll be discussing and exhibiting their work. Also presenting will be representatives of Six Apart and fotolog.net. Six Apart is the company behind Movable Type and Type Pad, and SA's people will no doubt discuss their nifty photoblogging and moblogging tools. I'm looking at you, Lauren Martin.Permalink | |
Feininger photographs
Gothamist this morning linked to a digital archive of 130 black-and-white photos of Andreas Feininger, from the Eastman collection.
NYPL: Image Gate
Image Gate is pretty damn cool. I especially like the photos showing the construction of the Holland Tunnel. The pictures aren't all NYC-specific, though. There are collections of cigarette cards, portraits of Native Americans, and maps of the mid-Atlantic region, among other collections. From the Image Gate Web site:Image Gate is The New York Public Library's first full working version of its new digital image database. Image Gate provides free and open access to thousands of The New York Public Library's digitized images, taken from the Research Libraries' collections. At its inception, the Image Gate database contains approximately 80,000 images spanning a wide range of subjects. This number will grow as The Library digitizes more images; this phased rollout will end in 2004, when the site will include more than 600,000 images. Image Gate demonstrates the rich potential for discovery in The Library's vast international collections of prints, drawings, photographs, illuminated manuscripts, rare books, maps, popular graphics and printed ephemera.
Permalink | |
Nagl
Stylin' Lauren has pictures up on her site. I'm in three or four, so have a peek if you're inclined to see documentary proof of my debauched NYC stylee. The first batch are from ex-roomie J.O.S.H.'s birthday bash; the second group (with the girls kissing) are from the weekend Brit-boy Jon Nagl visited NYC.Permalink | |