Summer Scenes, Part 2

Silver Man, Jefferson Park Library steps, West Village


Woman trying to reach doorbells (and looking like she's engaging in parkour)


Promo photos at Steel Gym, Chelsea


Promo photos at Steel Gym, Chelsea


Decaying NYC subway (where some of those "stimulus"/"job creation" dollars could go)


Decaying NYC subway


In the Hotel Rivington


Street musicians packing up


SoHo café display


A woman next to me (on PATH) reading a print-out of a right-wing screed against Barack Obama


Wild car, West Village


Bedlam at the World Trade Center PATH station


Photographer/vendor (who commented to me after I took his photo that I hadn't asked for his permission (I apologized), nor had I brought him "a piece of fruit"--so I did, a few days later)

Summer Scenes, Part 1 (w/ Warning on Final Video)

Man feeding the birds, Bryant Park


Man claiming he was implanted with microchips (note the outfit), on the PATH


Decollage art, SoHo


SoHo scene


People sleeping in the flower beds at the New York Public Library's Research Branch, Bryant Park


New Jersey School of Wine (make up your own caption)


Lower East Side at night


Man lying on ground (many people passed him without stopping, but the guy in the pink shirt and I did call/hail the cops)


EMTs assisting the man (according to them he was just very inebriated)


Young guy dribbling soccer ball through Hoboken train station


How many Jersey City fireman does it take to open a manhole?


Horribly drunk man on the PATH

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Events from July & August, Part 5

People confronting an anti-gay protester, Jersey City Pride festival


Jersey City Pride festival


Bryant Park before a film


In Washington Square Park (this was the first time I'd been in the park since the renovations, which are still underway)


Art on the High Line, Chelsea


Wildflowers, on the High Line


The Empire State Building, from the High Line


Artwork on the High Line

Events from July & August, Part 4

At Printed Matter, Chelsea, for the book launch of Tan Lin's Seven Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004. The Joy of Cooking (Wesleyan, 2010), and its related texts


Tan Lin and a colleague, at Printed Matter


Tan Lin's mother, Gordon Tapper (center), and a friend, at the Printed Matter book launch


Writers David Ebershoff and Gary Shteyngart at a midday reading, Bryant Park


Paulus Hook landing commemoration, Jersey City


Jersey City Puerto Rican Day festival


Jersey City Puerto Rican Day festival

Events from July, Part 3 (Harlem Book Fair)

Artist signing his work


Women being interviewed


"Black Nobel" at the Harlem Book Fair


Author Freddie Simmons


Bookstalls


Women checking out the music at the Sexy Soul Oldies booth


A patron checking out books


New York Black Librarian Caucus's booth, Harlem Book Fair

Events from July, Part 2

Graffiti show at the Benrimon Gallery, Chelsea


One of the pieces at the Benrimon Gallery


Artist DIL (in the black cap), event organizers and friends at the Benrimon Gallery


One of the large painting-sculptures at the Benrimon Gallery


Grafitti artists posing, Benrimon Gallery


Two attendees offering me "keys to the City"


More of the artwork at Benrimon Gallery


More artwork at the Benrimon Gallery


Graffiti show, Soapstone Gallery


Artwork at the Soapstone Gallery


Artwork at the Soapstone Gallery


Artlovers at the Soapstone Gallery


Artist Fumero, at the Soapstone Gallery


Artlovers at the Soapstone Gallery