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East River Park and Irene

gamma — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 16:32:00 +0000

I tried calling 911 to get someone to put some caution tape around this tree, it is in imminent danger of falling, and people are clustered all around it taking photos of the other tree fallen behind it. 911 put me off to 311 and 311 is totally overwhelmed and not answering. I also told my story to a cop. Here’s hoping no one gets hurt.

The ground where this tree was rooted was totally swampy, no wonder it fell over.

The water in the East River was high enough to float all the trash usually resting on the rocks here.

At Houston Street. The FDR is flooded at Houston Street as well.

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Rain Walkers

gamma — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 16:12:17 +0000

This was as bad as Irene got in my neighborhood, not much. People out early this morning taking a stroll.

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Quiet Saturday with Irene

gamma — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 01:36:39 +0000

With the subway, busses, trains and planes shut down it is extraordinarily quiet this Saturday in the East Village and Lower East Side.

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Spaghetti Pools

gamma — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:20:19 +0000

No, not Olympic sized pools for the pedestrian island. They are filling up with giant spaghetti. I’m thinking data cables of some sort. Lots of data. Maybe my Netflix stream will improve.

The digging never ends on East Houston Street.

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Greenstreets

gamma — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 18:26:40 +0000

The pedestrian island on East Houston Street between Norfolk and Suffolk Streets never seemed to get as much gardening attention as other islands. This year it has pretty much been taken over by weeds. And now it looks like it will be dug up like what has been done to islands further east. This digging on Houston street seems endless. They are working seven days a week. The noise is constant.

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JR on Essex

gamma — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:08:26 +0000

Or at least I assume it is a JR.

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Almost Famous

gamma — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 01:38:36 +0000

They’ve started on the foundation for whatever is going to be built on this lot on Suffolk and East Houston Streets. The building next-door contains a day-care center. A while back, after they started digging around the foundation, it was briefly declared unsafe. But then they build a massive steel buttress that apparently keeps the building from collapsing.

I’ve been seeing these top-hatted graffiti figures around. It is tagged ‘Almost Famous.’

I saw the biker swooping around from my right, I snapped to get him in the foreground, and add scale and action to an otherwise boring shot.

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Stanton Street Sunset

gamma — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 00:03:45 +0000

Last night.

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Endless Digging – Houston Street

gamma — Sun, 22 May 2011 23:50:03 +0000

These guys are not going to stop until every square inch of East Houston Street has been dug, paved and re-dug again several times. This go round involves Con-Ed. I’m not sure if these are gas lines or electrical conduits.

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Need Cash?

gamma — Sun, 08 May 2011 15:57:41 +0000

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