Sunday, August 31st, 2003
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| I saw this vegetable powered bus on Avenue B yesterday. I should have sniffed its tailpipe to see if it smelled of french fries. biotour.org |
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Sunday, August 31st, 2003
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| We had another huge Critical Mass Bike ride here in NYC this past Friday. All three bridges to Brooklyn were taken: the Brooklyn, the Manhattan and the Williamsburg. The crowd was at least as large as the last one. I remember looking down Broadway and seeing nothing but bike riders for blocks and blocks. The above photo is Times Square. Click here for more photos. |
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Saturday, August 30th, 2003
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| As seen on Houston Street. |
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2003
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| England has crop circles, NYC has mysterious trash circles. Or at least that’s a theory I’m working on. Is the person who hung these on an iron fence on St Marks Place the same person who hung that decrepit xmas wreath I talked about in last Friday’s entry. Or maybe it’s being done by chupacabras. |
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Sunday, August 17th, 2003
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| Someone thought it important for people to take a specific route to the Williamsburg Bridge. "Williamsburg Brige Instructions – To the Williamsburg Brige – Make a right on Clinton St walk all the way down to Delancey St make a right you see the bridge." Houston and Suffolk Streets. |
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Sunday, August 17th, 2003
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| Houston near Suffolk Street. |
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Saturday, August 16th, 2003
| The power came back on shortly after 9 PM. I think the Lower East Side was one of the last areas to get its power back. An extended cheer erupted on the street as well as in my kitchen. I am very happy to have my fan back. |
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| Tompkins Square Park the morning after. I wasn’t there late enough to see it get this wild, but it looks like the single trash can burning scrap wood turned into a giant trash bonfire. The mayor did recommend that people keep cool in bars. From the amount of drinking I saw on Thursday night, they took his advice seriously. I have some video of the park bacchanal, but it will take some work to process it for the web. |
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| Thanks go to a couple of civilians who took it upon themselves to clean up after the revelers. Other civilians heroes were the spontaneous traffic directors who stood in the middle of intersections and bravely attempted to negotiate passages. The press of motor and foot traffic was tremendous in midtown just after the power went out, and they bravely stepped into the breach. |
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| Hitching a ride on a bus, Houston Street and Avenue A. |
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| Several Con Ed trucks plus a large portable generator surrounded the substation at Fifth and A. |
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| Gas fired pizza ovens and the relative imperishability of the ingredients brought a lot of business to pizza joints. This line extended back about another half block. I was too hot and lazy to get a better perspective. |
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By late afternoon Tompkins Park’s central lawn had a high density occupancy of sunbathers. Click
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This woman took the opportunity to write "No More Prisons" on one of the paths in Tompkins. Other women of a pro-prison set of mind gave her a hard time. She decided to amplify what she meant by crossing out "prisons" and adding "sleeping?"
"No More Sleeping?" Is this the birth of a movement. |
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Saturday, August 16th, 2003
