Prius Anyone

Have you ever come across a line of Prius's it's very very weird (or eco-friendly..non gas guzzlers), especially in the financial district of NYC... One in a million pictures that you take with you camera...it just had to be captured..sorry.

Fall Out Shelter

McAlister House was once...probably still is a Fall Out Shelter, like as in nuclear warfare..WWIIIish....interesting right! I bet it's now a subletted apartment building for writers and artists willing to share floorspace..

the New Museum

While this wacky crazy...new modern...and i mean MODERN museum is awesome but weird....more importantly it's free on Thursdays. What's there not to love.

Click here for info on it!

HAWAII

hawaii in nyc!!!!

So what if it's a restaurant store in the lower east side that's never open...still...it's nice to see...

Cats

I walked past a Cappuccino store and saw a cat sleeping in the window, the weird part about it was IT WAS A CAPPUCCINO store....not one that serves Cappuccino, but sells the Cappuccino maker and parts and stuff....like who goes there~!!!! And it was closed and there was a cat sleeping in the window, sketchy to say the least.

Architecture....part 2

Would you want to work here?

Crazy People - part 1

"Weird" just is the best way to put it, for those people in NYC that act like they're from some other planet...lets just call them "Crazy." Weird is a bit better than normal in my opinion, but these non-eccentric people are just down right crazy. On a hot nearly summer day this Merlin, Magician, 80's rapper, pimp look-a-like was out and about, scaring one kid at a time....

Fish and Chips straight from Wimbeldon

One of the best fish and chips in NYC, A Salt & Battery cooks up London's finest dish...I noticed this place from a Bobby Flay "ThrowDown" and just had to check it out. The food was good, although Bobby is an ass (or what I hear) he definitely went for the best food out there..

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Just Thai me up?!!!

Free Popsicles!

A couple was walking around the city giving away free Popsicle, the one rub was that they need a donation for their church....I guess that wasn't a bad idea, but what a way to spend a holiday, the costumes need a bit of work.....On the other hand it was for their church....thank God!

London in Manhattan

In NYC every single building is neck to neck, shoulder to shoulder, however occasionally you'll see not so suspecting buildings. Here's one, looks like something from Pleasantville or London not the West Village.

Parking

While most car garages are in buildings or underground, there are many in NYC that are just contraptions, like cubbyholes (like in kindgergarden) for cars, I'm sure there is something better looking in Asia, but these are definitely those weird things you see in the city.

Music in the City - Washington Square Park 2

Another song from the band in the park.

I Hate Balloons - Part 1

Why did we invent balloons, besides being absolutely worthless and stupid is there anyone who really enjoys them? I mean, come on, you like it for about 10-20 mins, then you start to play with it cause you're getting bored and before you know it, you popped it. There's this lady in the City who walks around with balloons and gives them to children, I think she does it for money, but she's more on the creepy side. She definitely gives off that, "I'm a cat lady, who just had another birthday party for one of them..."

Parade

See this video of a parade in the city, this was near Washington Square Park. Go Korea!

Marco ...... Polo!

Have you ever played polo? Like the game where you use a big hammer looking thing and you're on a horse...yea that one, well these guys in the lower east side played polo on bikes...it was pretty amazing!

Music in the City - Washington Square Park

Check this video out of a Jazz Band playing in Washington Square Park.....

Beethoven - big dog.....man size

I keep on hearing that dogs don't get that..that big, nothing that can take you head off. I also hear that dogs and their owners look-alike. While strolling around one weekend, I came across a giant big dog, something that looked like Beethoven on ARod's steroids, like what I expected to see in the Sandlot. It was huge, we'll I'm sure there are bigger, but this dog was drooling like his mouth was a faucet. Everyone stopped to take a picture of this behemoth. He looked harmless, cute almost, aside from the fact that he probably could eat a baby whole!

Cherry Blossoms

"There's nothing better than walking into a garden with flowers falling around you"...yea weird right, but honestly it's not too bad, especially when Japan is the next best thing...

The kid/doghouse

Here's a group of students making what looks like to be a luxurious kid/doghouse in Union Square.

First he liked it...so did the dog


Not so much anymore.

The cat guy

I see this guy with a cat on his head, and my impulse is to take a picture of him. I grab the camera out and I hear this lady shout, "hey joey..joey!!" I take the picture and try to pretend that it didn't happen when this dude says, "did you get the picture," of course I did, then he says, "we're looking for food." Now while this guy was saying this, he wasn't like a few feet away, he was like spiting in my eyeballs, cornering me. After one of these things happen to you, you get a little shook up, I gave him a few quarters and walked away. That was definitely a picture that didn't have to be taken...next time.

Personal Space

People in New York have no sense, nay respect of personal space. Like none, sneezing, biting their fingernails, absolutely none!!!! I'm in queens on a Saturday when everyone's getting a seat on the subway, I mean everyone, even the animals...dogs I mean. I'm waiting patiently on the platform, (not 9 3/4) 30 Ave, and I'm watching behind to see if the train is coming and out of no where, this woman decides to stand right in front of me, like literally in front of me, and there's gotta be about 20 people waiting for the subway, not the usual 200... The picture above was right after she arrived....I could not believe it. Too close for...anyone.

Pollen Alert

have you ever heard of a high pollen alert? Living in CA, i've never even imagined something like that....but as luck would have it and since anything and everything happens in this crazy city....this is a high pollen alert!!!

CHECK IT OUT!!!

http://www.weather.com/outlook/health/allergies/pollenalert/10001

Summer day in the fall

It's tough to prepare for a summer day when you're always wearing sweaters and jackets. One sunny day not to long ago the weather warmed up, and continued to get hotter, till it was like summer; nearly that early morning sweaty morning that turns in to nausea...Here's a photo of a girl clearly not handling it well, mind you this was 8:00am. For a second I laughed...cause if you don't it's just mean...

Advertising....

I'm walking around in Soho and I see this bag that says "Desigual" I'm thinking that, that person shopped there and got the bag, Bloomingdale's brown bag right. So I'm at a shoe store and see it again, and again and again!!! It's like the hottest thing since a summer day in the middle of a New York winter, and again and again I see this damn bag! What's so great about this store. I must have walked 3-4 blocks in Soho, nearly covering it all when finally I see this guy handing out 'that' bag, and this new store called "Desigual." It's pure genius, people walking around one of the busiest shopping areas in the world and giving out free bags, what's better than this! It definitly got me interested and while I know an ad sales guy, I never believe any of it....me....believer!

Lets put it like this, I saw the bag twenty times in about a 50 yard stretch....!!!!

Sleepin again

There's shopping, eating, drinking...you name it, but what I notice a lot of people doing is falling asleep, like all over the place, in the subways, at work...everywhere. On a hot day if you're not in a clothing store or a restaurant, you're probably in a book store and NYC does not have a shortage of those. There's the strand, mcnally, barnes & nobles, borders.....So while I was at a borders in Columbus circle I sat down and read a magazine and I look over to my left and see a guy nearly seizuring...you know that bobbing your head routine, and occasional slurp of your saliva...nothing was wrong but he was sleeping and snoring. Here's him in action...lack of...

Corner Bistro - zagat rated..psst

The number one rated burger joint in NYC supposedly has the(e) best burger in the world, like ever! Big, juicy, crunchy, and the fries...amazing.....Sounded too good to be true, and as luck would have it, it was. The food at the Corner Bistro was moderately good, and I'm talking about 2:00am food. Nothing good ever happens after 2:00am nor is the food ever decent, anywhere. Where's the most popular place to get food after 2:00am.....7 eleven! So I get there one afternoon around 1pm, and this burger joint is more like a dive bar. It was dark (mind you on a sunny day) inside, probably so you couldn't see what was on the floor. There were all sorts of elderly people drinking, and shooting the shit. I order a burger, fries and a McSorleys beer. The burger was crumbly, the fries were like potato chips, but the beer, was amazing! McSorelys beer definitely delivered. From the look of the food and bar, one would just think the food has to be good, not to mention everyone on this crazy island says it's good, but it's not. No way, I'm from the west and while I really hate to advertise and pretend like the best comes from there, the burgers are waaaaayy better over there. I mean miles!!!!! I'm disappointed, not just in the food, but the following of that place. The funny thing about that place is that right before I left this woman walks in with a label machine and asks for her usual, which is something in a small glass, probably a brandy and a then asks for a knife, then she chats it up with the bartender. Like that's her home. Mind you it was 1pm! This is the Starbucks for old people!

Who you gonna call!!!

I've never seen one of these, but it's a comforting feeling while walking in one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in New York. Or is it?!

THE SHIRT

3 people bought the same shirt. I didn't see any instruments, no boy band there....I guess they thought it was cool.

Playing in the Park

The weather was nearly 'there' in NYC. For an entire weekend, it was summer-like conditions, but still the parks are not ready, here's a park worker yelling at sun bathers and film school students. It definitely made my day to see people jump over the railings and then jump back over because they were kicked out.

There were even signs, and gates!

THE CASE OF THE WIG

I came across a wig lying near a bank the other day. I don't know what happened, but here's what I think it happened.

THE CASE OF THE WIG

One day after a long day of work Blah (his/her name for now) decided to go out and get a drink. Blah and a few friends decided to go to Chinatown because they weren't making their quotas, and besides being broke, they were cheap.

So they got a drink and some sleazy dive bar, where English is the 2nd language and proceed to order something alcoholic but sweet and a few bucks. They're drinking and drinking when they realize that the guy having the worst day, Blah is sucking the table because he's drunk, no one has got him water and he thinks that sooner or later ..... (well who really knows what drunk people think). So his friends realize that he's wasted and decided that some bread might do him some good. They go to a local bakery, Taipan Bakery.


The bread is great and the pastries are even better, so they order a bit of both and they're supposedly soaking up their alcohol, when out comes the alcohol, pastries and other disgusting stuff, probably because the last thing they ate, was a bit puke-colored, green tea custard.


After puking they decide that its best if they go home. They're stumbling, like a babies first step, and are almost at the subway stop when they see some good looking girls. Being drunk, they holler a few stupid remarks, and as luck would have it, they get beat up a bit.... So they're back on course for the subway, when out of nowhere what do they see....a WIG!!!


They put it on, play around a bit, puke some more and finally go home. But what drunk people actually make it home on the subway. They all fall asleep and while going to queens they forget to get off and are in Coney Island, the get off somewhere....and decide to camp out. They're night was stupid and weird and they fall asleep on the steps of an apartment. Not theirs, but in Manhattan. Lucky bastards!

The End

Sitting on the Dock

When the weather is nice in NYC, no where is better, here's a few pics of a small little dock in Chelsea. This was before the rain came.

Getting Lost

I was near home, got lost and found a cute restaurant, like all Bakeries in NYC, they had Red Velvet Cupcakes, they were ... and I quote, "Too Moist" (like that's a bad thing). The restaurant was called, "Sage General Store" in Long Island City.