Formerly Empire Diner II

Freedom Tower Rises

At night from my Village perch the Freedom Tower looks like a jeweled Christmas tree. But up close at Ground Zero, it leaps to the sky and stirs the heart. Ground Zero at the World Trade Center has been a dead zone for years, so, though I hate the blue glass building style which permeates every skyline in the US, this is a welcome sight.

EAT, Chelsea

Die, Nazi Scum!

Soviet Tass Propaganda Poster at the Andrew Edlin Gallery, Chelsea

Mars Bar RIP (again)

Mars Bar. Before and after....as of yesterday...making New York clean for more blue glass and metal high rises. It's all over now baby blue...(thanks to Kitty at New York Portraits

terminator grandma at WSP

Rio Girls

New York today, back to Rio tomorrow. That's the life!

Tom Chang Group at Cornelia Street cafe

A tiny village jazz club with world class food but not many seats! (that's Tom on guitar)

MacDougal St between West 3rd/Bleecker

just another brick in the wall

Cold Spring Foundry

Just south of downtown Cold Spring is a placid wooded area that was once the site of the "deep breathing ... furnaces, and the sullen, monotonous pulsations of trip hammers"* of the well-known West Point Foundry. The foundry, which began operations in 1817 and continued through the 1880s (other industrial firms occupied the premises through the mid-20th century), was the "most extensive and complete of the iron works of the United States."* The site was chosen as one of four federally-subsidized foundry sites by President Madison in 1812 and the first director was Gouverneur Kemble, a resident of Cold Spring.

merry christmas

hand jive

Santas take the Train

Reindeer on strike

nest

Storm King

upstate New York

grand central

same as it ever was

Rittenhouse Coffee Shop, Philadelphia, 1992

Bedford Street