Pizza’s over $2.00 a slice most places now, but there are a few deals still to be had in NYC. Postcards can often be found ten for a dollar, including tax, on sidewalk racks. They may not always be tasteful, but who cares, if you’re getting mementos to remind everyone of your trip to NYC THE BIG APPLE ONE HECKUVA TOWN.
Being a window washer at the Time Warner Center is Sisyphean work. There are acres of glass from the sidewalk to as high as a person can reach. Just when he thinks he’s caught up, it starts all over again.
If life were a cartoon, there would be a black oval on the sidewalk into which this guy would step. We’d hear some sounds, a crash, maybe whistling, and after a few moments he’d climb out of the opening, brush himself off, and continue on his way.
We were thinking maybe the old guy was Poseidon, but there’s no reference to water. With that leafy head wear, maybe he’s a mythological figure. The guarder of doors?
Another recession casualty, I thought when I peered into this Chinese restaurant. Then I looked online, remembered I took the picture on Monday, and discovered it was closed that day. Tang Pavilion gets mixed reviews; the consensus is that the restaurant is better for dinner than lunch.
I don’t remember seeing this on other Mondays after the big race. There were numerous NYC Marathon runners wearing their medals, which show that they completed the race, over street clothes. The shorter man is also carrying a purse, but I think finishing the 26+ mile course confers fashion liberty on a runner for a couple days.
Oh how pensive he seems. Then you notice the tie tucked in the shirt. What we read as emotion is more likely the aftermath of a big lunch and the thought of an afternoon of work looming ahead.
A person’s head would have to be the size and shape of a basketball to wear this mask. Ironically, Scandinavia was well represented this Halloween among trick or treating kids not by trolls but a stylized version of the “scream” character from Edvard Munch’s famous painting. I imagine a pedantic parent telling the kids, “What an interesting choice, this figure by early 21st century Norwegian artist Munch, a pictorial embodiment of modern anomie and anxiety!”
They’re walking past the big sneaker store on 34th Street. The mom is probably in charge of the wallet, so the shoes are not going to happen today.
It would be perfect if these men, as a group, were going to Five Guys for hamburgers. On nearby 55th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues, Five Guys is a fairly recent addition to the neighborhood, as if there weren’t enough places for a carnivore craving greasy beef and french fries to dine.
