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White on Dark

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Foggy Rupert Towers fades away into white

By Request: Park Avenue Tulips Sans Darkly

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Park Avenue Tulips: Through a dark glass

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Constant Reminders Needed

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To some people this photo may seem awkward, but in New York City we have a terrible time with people dropping their plows. New York, Upper East Sude

Innocent Snow Being Heading Toward--Oh My Gosh! It's a.... a ... a ... a......

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Snow Being goes by many names:  Little Foot, since she or he leaves no trace; Snow Drop, since he or she appears only when snowflakes stick to the Earth just so; Fare-Thee-Well, since perfection is its natural state.  Nobody knows where Snow dwells, although there are those who say there is a darkened burrow near an unknown station in a tunnel of the IRT.  The scary, wide-eyed snow being is seldom seen, and often considered to be a myth.  Nobody knows the temperament of Snow; nobody interferes; nobody photographs, nobody records for fear of ramifications.  However, as we know, absolutely nothing, can deter our fearless and sensitive photographer from the action scene--not snow, not cold, not a scary situation.  Hark!   Sensing danger, our Brave Photographer rushes outside, and Lo! There is Snow Being, creeping with perplexity toward a dark, round something in the road.  Our photographer, confused by Snow's hesitation, looks carefully.  There, in the middle of the snow-lined tra

Access Points

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Did you ever think your heart got unzipped and didn’t go back together right? Did you let your inside out and just find a chill in the sinews? Did you still leave a little open space just in case a key fit one more time into that stitched-up secret door? Well, I wish I knew more about it. There’s a small ache I remember though, a little core of a thing, no bigger than a raindrop hanging on a lilac leaf. Summer, it was summer, not a cold February day with a frozen wind. A summer raindrop, hanging from the center vein. Yes, a heart shaped lilac leaf, dark green. Not red and gnawed from too many interruptions.

Ice Blue Dreams

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Ice-crusted wind whistling through the canyons snarling into corners, snuffling up to the window panes. Brown sugar frozen on the ginger bread houses daydreams cringing at the Grimm realities lost among the dead ends of the mind. Day cracks open, crunching, pounding, dressed in winter blue. Oh, what a Blue! Shall I take that crystal daylight bait? Why risk that wrenching heartache one more time? Why not harken back to childish satisfactions? I am a lake fish trapped and flapping under frozen water. Free me! I am in a small space too young to die. Or am I creeping paw by paw above the fragile ice that holds me up from freezing? Inside out and upside down I trace my way along the membranes of reality. Central Park, Post Nemo

Walking your Dog in Nemo Blizzard

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Winter storm Nemo on East 94th:  1 AM in the middle of the street. Nemo at 1:30 AM in NYC

Police and / or Fire? Have no Fear

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It's time to seriously consider whether or not our newly created alarms, scanners, secret elevator cameras and iPhones are really ready to take on the job of comfort and protection provided by our more traditional sentries: ."Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night, nor the winds of change, nor a nation challenged, will stay us from the swift completion of our appointed rounds." {see note} Brave and Hardy Police and Fire Sentry at Park Avenue and 94th [Note] Similarly,  An inscription on the James Farley Post Office in New York City reads: Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. [1] This phrase was a translation by Prof. George H. Palmer, Harvard University, from an ancient Greek work of Herodotus describing the Persian system of mounted postal carriers c. 500 B.C. The inscription was added to the building by William Mitchell Kendall of the architect

It's Cold, Really!

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Tra-la-la, Tra-la-lee, Tra-la-loo… I’ve got nothing important to do! No Races to run, No to-do’s to be done, Boohoo, boohoohoo, boohoohoo! It’s cold in the park, It’s cold every year, So why not accept it And move on from here? Ok! I’ll adjust, I’ll re-tool and comply. Everyone does it, So why not I? Tomorrow I’ll change! Or maybe today; The year’s only started, It will all be OK. Plaza Fountain at Lincon Center in January:   How Cold could it really Be?

Isn't Anybody Paying Attention??

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Really, I don't want to keep harping on it, but the buildings in Manhattan keep evaporating, and nobody is paying attention! Here's another one downtown, just turning into mist before our eyes, and not a bus, not a bus passenger, nobody seems to be missing them! I don't know what to do anymore. I mean, who do you call? Lower Manhattan, West Side

Rare View of the Den of Park Construction

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We all know that elements as beautifully made as Central Park has to be constructed. Well we do know who's actually behind things like beauty. Nonetheless, some elements of earthly movement is a maintenance reality. The construction den in central park is so seldom noticed that it seriously has to be seen to be beieved...

Discovery! Burning Bush!

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Has there ever been a more synchronous, resonant, convenient and suitable place for storing a  Burning Bush?

New Fall Parking System

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Over and over New York traffic police have tried to manage ticketing with grace and accuracy. However, they have been constantly hampered by budgetary and aesthetic considerations. Multiple methods have been in place to solve these problems, but the most exciting is the new pilot YellowLeaf Study Project.   YellowLeaf simply models the wind, seasons and weather. As you can see, the vehicles that have been parked for sometime can be easily identified. Did you not respect Alternate Side of the Street Parking? You have been punked!

the Architecture of Fall

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Dwarfed by Ignored Beauty Manhattan, Upper East Side on Lexington

Hero Trees on East 94th Street

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See the Young Man walking?  He is unaware he is passing Hero Tree in Yellow and Green, one of natures masterpieces of sustainable architecture.   Here's Yellow&Green waving in the light.  The lower right branch lost a limb, and a few small branches were lost.  The architecture of trees is amazing!  60-70 mile an hour winds for hours thrashed the trees. Here's Yellow, straight and strong after Hurricane Sandy; upright, bold, wonderful, recovered from last year's blight. Yellow is still wearing some summer green leaves at the top and holds a few yellow leaves that survived the Hurricane Winds.  And don't forget Young Blue, still strong on the window sill.  

Yellow Tree and Yellow & Green

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Yellow tree is bearing up leaves still stuck along the limbs, how did they get so big? Yellow’s just a little thing compared to Yellow & Green. I had a white-light come to me once but I didn’t know at the time, so here I am earthbound and running chasing after second chances. I knew a man who found a sheep that lived three years in a Scotland cave. It could barely walk and talk and graze with so much unsheared wool. I am like a quiet morning, slowly filling the backyards up without a sound, fresh with pitted peaches canned for winter I have nothing to say to the dead anymore with their put-down trumped-up charges. Just let them be, I said once more and I let colors talk to me. East 94th Street one of two New York Kentucky Coffee Trees

Dreaming on a Railroad Track

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Metal black, steel and rust, iron crawling down the track, whistle blowing, time slowing,   diesel at the back, third rails clamor for those dead-end dreams, they're gone in a minute, burnt scraps in-between. Freight train rolling through the city in decline, screaming through the county on the poverty line, break up coming with the speed-up sign.   Hop on hold on, climbing over, sneaking through, the lattice work is holding up; there’s nothing to do. Dreams held hostage in a stale-mate game, dream in, dream out, escaping just the same. New York Harlem & Hudson Line Remember to Leave a Comment if you wish; Anonymous with name inside, or use your own ID!

Here I Come, Ready or Not

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Night Painting A sense of place drills down Into that impossible set of possibilities, silencing the dreaded networks, drumming silence into the labyrinths. East 94th Street at Night (New York City)

Warning: This New York Slum Is Digitaly Protected!

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This Video Camera Graphic is a fine example of crowd-sourced design.  Notice how the two thin things lead nowhere, implying, well, implying something significant.  Perhaps this camera, not being grounded, can fly. Perhaps somebody stole the wall it used to be connected with. \