Xmas in Manhattan and all is quiet. Fifth Avenue looking uptown at the Empire State building.

LYKE hitch-hiking on a traffic sign pole. St Marks Place. That’s the Cooper Union Building in the background.

That’s the character Sloth from the” movie The Goonies.

Santa left a note at the Continental. St Marks Place and The Bowery.

Restoration of the Washington Square Arch. It looks like they have trowled in some mortar over the erosion crags that made old George look like Dorian Grey. It’s hard to see it in this photo, shot by sticking my lens through the chain link fence, but he’s looking pretty bland. I suspect there will be finish sculpting done as the restoration of the figures behind him look much sharper.

Here’s a photo of the photo they have on a sign there, showing how badly the statue had eroded.

The Xmas Village in Union Square, where they mostly sold geegaws made in Chinese sweatshops, was closed down, but still as ugly as ever.

Xmas Xxsess in the Xmas Village.

Bulldog – Pasted-paper cutout print Third Avenue and Tenth Street. I’m not sure what type of printing but it could be a woodcut like Swoon does.

Looking west on West 11th Street.

More talking back to advertising. Someone beat-up the aluminum sheets covering the former graffiti-wall on Houston Street.