X-Ray Bike

Here's a great shot by Nick Veasey, I believe:


I like how his head looks like the moon.

The Naked City

Apocalypse NYC?!

I woke up to this weather report:

I'll take this rain over that option...

Some NYC Photos

Here are some photos around the city from the past few weeks. The first is an Empire State building lamppost stand:

This is the top of a pier piling @ sunset:

Looking down @ a table:

Dog Free Lawn fail:

From Ft. Lee:

A great bench near the Intrepid:

And a logo for handicapped horses:

Sun setting under the GWB:

A New York Short

The YouTube description:

An inventive look at life in the city of opportunity, told by many people through one voice.

Mapping Swine Flu in NY

I centered this on NY, but you may have to zoom in or look around for just the incidients in the city.

View H1N1 Swine Flu in a larger map

I wonder why there haven't been any in Maimi, or FL generally...my guess is that's going to be the next area hit.  I don't mean to add to the hysteria of this new disease (which will probably turn out like the other's of late), I'm just expressing my apprecaition for this neat map.  

Post Apocalyptic NYC?!

Here's a scary image that captures my apprecation of all things post-apocalyptic and my love of NYC:

I'm not sure how accurate it is, but it definitely makes a point.

  From Treehugger via here.    

Third Avenue El

Enjoy this slice of a bygone life.  It's a video of the old Third Avenue El train that captures the experinece of riding the old elevated train, as well as life in NY in mid-century: 

To find out more, check out the Wikipedia ariticle, which includes this relevant bit of information:

"...the Third Avenue El, which was intended to stay in use until the Second Avenue Subway was built to replace it. However, government bureaucracy and pressure from private developers, eager to redevelop Third Avenue, forced the closure of the El prematurely with no adequate subway replacement, leaving residents on the East Side of Manhattan with the overcrowded IRT Lexington Avenue Line as the only subway east of Fifth Avenue."

 I wonder if they would have been so eager to demolish it if they had known it would take so many years to start the Second Avenue Subway...

Update: Art in the Streets

I've been meaning to mention this for a while, but Curbed commented on some of the street art from the last post.  Curbed was tipped off by Vanishing New York, who seems to think the "tape skyline" was created by Aakash Nihalani. 

 Follow the links for an interesting story about a buidling closed because of a fire, reborn through spontaneous artistic expression, and then slated for demolation to make way for a new building.