Random Photos

Unlike previous summers, this has been mostly a quiet one, with recuperation from the semester (and a bit of surgery), and preparation for what looks to be a very busy fall. Here are a few photos from the last few months.

Our front gate, after a car
crashed into it again
(it's since been repaired) 

The vaulted ceiling at the still-under-repair
Hoboken rail station (remember
the terrible crash there earlier this year?)

New York City and some of the
flotsam on the Hoboken site 

Famous First Baptist Peddie
Memorial Church, Newark 

New towers steadily rising (Trump's
second tower in the middle), downtown
Jersey City

Translator Alicia Maria Meier,
at the Us&Them Reading,
Molasses Books, Brooklyn

Translator Bonnie Huie at
the Us&Them reading 

A sculpture at the plaza where 8th Street,
6th Avenue and Greenwich Avenue meet,
Manhattan

Service Changes,
on the PATH 

The Sistine Chapel exhibit,
PATH World Trade Center station 

The Sistine Chapel exhibit,
PATH World Trade Center station 

Scaffolded walkway, which
could be almost anywhere in
endlessly-under-construction New York

Boohoo.com, West Village

CA Conrad, reading and performing
at the White Review Issue 20 launch,
McNally-Jackson, Manhattan 

Sophie Robinson
at the White Review Issue 20 launch,
McNally-Jackson, Manhattan 

Another one of our new luxury towers
in Jersey City 

The Upper West Side, near Columbia University

Outside Book Culture, Upper West Side 

At the Women in Translation Cocktail Hour
reading, with Susan Bernofsky, Ann Goldstein,
and Nathan Xavier Osorio, Book Culture 

At the Women in Translation Cocktail Hour
reading, with Susan Bernofsky, Ann Goldstein,
and Nathan Xavier Osorio, Book Culture 

L-r: Nathan Xavier Osorio, Ann Goldstein,
and Susan Bernofsky, Book Culture 

Susan Bernofsky signing copies
of the books she's translated,
Book Culture, UWS 

Lower Manhattan

Chelsea restaurant BEC
(Bacon Egg & Cheese)

A Twitter office (I assume
from that logo), Chelsea

A building site, Jersey City

Impromptu poetry, Jersey City street

UN Building, west side of Manhattan

Two stilt walkers, Jersey
City Pride, 2017 

Sugar & Spice (?), performers at
Jersey City Pride, 2017

Wrestling an umbrella, Jersey City 

Lunch al fresco, Jersey City

Random Photos

Here are few photos from the last few months.  Scroll down to the bottom to see how the New York Post, and New Yorkers, responded to the New Year's Eve flub by Mariah Carey. Poor Mimi!

One of Kerry James Marshall's paintings,
now on exhibit at his Met Breuer
show, Kerry James Marshall: MASTRY

Profs. Marisa Fuentes and Deborah Gray White,
who co-edited (in record time) the
superbly executed Scarlet and Black:
Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers
History (Rutgers UP, 2016) at the public launch
last fall 

At a gallery on the Upper East Side

Outside the Grove Street PATH station, Jersey City

The Delmar Loop in St. Louis

Muslim Voices, a Rutgers-Newark AAAS-
sponsored program led by Prof. Zain Abdullah,
of Temple University, at the Newark Museum

One of the last episodes of this season of Empire,
featuring a reproduction of Edgar Degas'
"Miss LaLa at the Cirque Fernando," the subject
of my story Counternarratives "Acrobatique"  

Festive trees in the Manhattan
Financial District

Lower Manhattan, from the offices
of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council

Artists at the offices of the Lower Manhattan
Cultural Council's residency site

Zuccotti Park, where Occupy NYC
took place, now glitzed up (again)

Poet, essayist and editor
Saeed Jone speaking on behalf of
his former teacher, Rigoberto González,
who was being honored at Poets House 

My amazing colleague
Rigoberto González

In the WTC Westfield Shopping
walkway, with a giant telescreen
in the background 

On the phone, in the WTC

Newark's gentrifying Halsey Street

New buildings in Newark 

Vintage car on campus 

The cast of Kaija Saariaho's
L'Amour de loin, at the Met Opera

Post-SantaCon Santa,
almost on the rails 

At the Rutgers-Newark MFA holiday
reading, party and book exchange 

Tonya Foster and David Barclay Moore
at the book launch for Robert F. Reid-Pharr's
Archives of Flesh: African America, Spain,
and Post-Humanist Critique (NYU Press, 2016)

Robert F. Reid-Pharr (r) and his editor at
book launch for his new scholarly book
Archives of Flesh: African America, Spain,
and Post-Humanist Critique (NYU Press, 2016)

New York Post: "The Plot Against Mariah"