Trike Wagon
Tuesday, January 17th, 2006
A rickety looking wagon on the back of this trike on East Tenth Street, in the East Village.
Al Gore’s Speech
Tuesday, January 17th, 2006In Martin Luther King Day address, Gore compares wiretapping of Americans to surveillance of King
“A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government. Our Founding Fathers were adamant that they had established a government of laws and not men. They recognized that the structure of government they had enshrined in our Constitution – our system of checks and balances – was designed with a central purpose of ensuring that it would govern through the rule of law. As John Adams said: “The executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them, to the end that it may be a government of laws and not of men.”"
Video highlights on Crooks and Liars
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Martin Luther King -”Why I Oppose The War In Vietnam” and the “I Have A Dream” speech in mp3 format. A Wrybread Extra. |
Carved Sidewalk
Tuesday, January 17th, 2006
These stone sidewalk carvings were done about twenty years ago by an Asian artist. You can find them in the East Village and Soho. Does anyone know the name of the artist, or remember anything about this project?
Update: Flickrite krispy suggests that the artist is Ken Hiratsuka. I think he’s right.
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Recycling NYC
Tuesday, January 17th, 2006
Flo Ziegfeld and Billie Burke – Subway Hats
Tuesday, January 17th, 2006
Broadway actress, Billie Burke married Flo Ziegfeld. Burke is best known as Glinda the Good Witch of the North from the Wizard of Oz.
www.musicals101.com/ziegwho.htm
N R W subway station, Broadway and 23rd Street. View Large
The mosaic work in this station remind me of the also excellent work in the Museum of Natural History station.
Lovely mosaic representation of the hat of William Barclay Parsons. ” In 1894, he became chief engineer of the New York Rapid Transit Commission, designing the original plan for the Interborough Rapid Transit subway, which opened in 1904. His thorough examinations of Manhattan’s topography resulted in his use of the less expensive and more efficient cut-and-cover construction method for the first subway lines.”
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Forgotten NY on Subway Mosaics
