Spring Snow
Friday, March 25th, 2011
The Astor Place cube was lightly covered in snow yesterday morning.
This guy was abandoned in the vacant lot on 13th between Third and Second Avenues.
Black Thaw
Monday, February 14th, 2011
What can make snow pitch black? My guess is pitch, from the temporary patches for the water main construction on East Houston Street.
Icyocalypse 2011
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011
This was about 8 in the morning, before it all started to melt.
On Allen Street.
Sarah D. Roosevelt park. The worst sidewalks, aside from unoccupied storefronts, are the peripheries of schools and parks.
Allen Street.
Street Surgery in the Snow
Saturday, January 8th, 2011
The work on the water system of the Lower East Side goes on and on. Here they are replacing what looks to be an old 8” pipe with a new one.
Tompkins Park Snow
Friday, December 31st, 2010
A long exposure setting the camera down on the iron fence surrounding the central lawn in Tompkins Park. I’m still mystified why no one has constructed anything with the snow.
Did a bunch of playing with levels and color balance to compensate for the nasty yellow light from the sodium street lamps. It was hard to get rid of without desaturating almost to the point of B&W.
Psychic Surveillance Camera
Tuesday, December 28th, 2010
On East 5th Street.
Get Plowed
Tuesday, December 28th, 2010
I think the P.S. 20 school maintenance crew considers the Parks Department responsible for the sidewalk around the school’s playground, and vise versa. It always takes days for the sidewalk along Norfolk and Houston Street to be shoveled. But the school crew does a thorough job on the fenced-in area around the entrance and along Essex Street with their plow.
A cautious Samuel S. Cox overlooks the one Tompkins park sidewalk that was thoroughly plowed.
Businesses usually do a good job on their sidewalks, fearing the fine and liability, I’m sure. Though it is funny how when the sidewalk comes to the corner, often only the most stingy of paths is cut to the street.
The Quirky and useful Essex Card Shop on Avenue A.
Cold as a Brass Frog
Tuesday, December 28th, 2010
Cold as a brass frog, but bronze is just as cold. Tree Frog by Tom Otterness in the P.S.20 schoolyard, Houston and Essex Streets.
