New York Nitty-Gritty: December 2005

Friday, December 30, 2005

Building #2

This is probably my favorite building shot of the year.

Building #1

This shot of the Empire State Building in the rain became one of my favorite building photos of the year.

Thursday, December 29, 2005

Reflection Reprise #2

Of balloons and more...from November 2005

Reflection Reprise

Reflection of a Complicated History...from Thanksgiving of this year...

Tuesday, December 27, 2005

Liberty Link

Here's a nice close-up shot of LADY LIBERTY--showing her age but still going strong...(photo by PAT MORGAN)

Saturday, December 24, 2005

Thursday, December 22, 2005

Subway Photos

Well, it looks like the subway strike will stop, while further negotiations commence...Check out this site for some very good subway PHOTOS.

Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Hey, Hey! I am in Oregon from now until January 8th. As a Public Service to both of my faithful viewers (God bless you!), I offer a Guest Post by an intrepid New Yorker, regarding NYC and the illegal transit strike. Enjoy!

"I'm sure you're all panting to know just how we are doing here in NYC, what with the transit workers running amock, Bloomberg talkin' loud (um, for him anyway), and patience wearing thin.

Day Two started much like Day One: everyone is freezing their butts off and thinking that good ole Rudy would have knocked a few heads by now.

Tourists are the worst. They're here and they are HAVING FUN DAMMIT. More than once, I've been mowed over by deceptively jolly-looking women with a cup of Starbucks in one hand and an overdressed five year old clutching what is surely her entire American Girl collection on the other.

Or else its teenagers cut loose for the day, cheerfully chatting on their cell phones, walking 4 abreast, while some harried man on the way to the Penn Station Riots (and who looks like he just might open fire) is stuck behind them.

I am a little worried that the ambulance corps will be called out soon. Many haven't actually walked more than 3 blocks in 30 years. They huff, puff, and plop themselves onto benches like inflated whales, gasping for air and MickyD's.

This morning, while stuck in a 20 minute exit from the PATH TRAIN (long story of poor crowd control) I saw a woman calmly playing Seduko (sp?), a few people with the most giant pieces of luggage ever!, and heard the person behind me hiss "I hope they all get fined and DIE!" There are more of those annoying silver scooters today than yesterday--clearly day two has made their owners pull them out of storage!

But on the upside, I'm getting excercise, and each morning, I sturdily walk past Lord & Taylors, which is pumping music out onto the street--sort of like the orchestra on the Titanic playing ragtime as the ship went down--. Today Dean Martin (I think ) was crooning 'THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR", his dulcet tones soothing me and reminding me that, by by day's end I'd have a well deserved stiff drink in hand!"

Lucia M.