Start your engines

Sometimes the yellow cabs take over the roadway. A stoplight looks like the start of a road race, and the drivers are all ready to gun their engines the moment the light turns green.

Springtime window shot

Haven’t had any out-the-window pictures in a while. This week the city is crawling with tourists who are extending the Easter week vacation. Some are surprised by the cool weather and have to go right from the tour bus to the gift shop and buy sweatshirts that say New York or I Heart NY. They’ll usually get a NY Yankees baseball hat or two while they are at it.

Retro art in Bergdorf windows

Bergdorf has some nice windows assembled which combine 60′s and 70′s art with thriftstore purchases. The background is wall-to-wall, but the mannequins manage to stand out from the visual busy-ness. Still, I was the only person on the sidewalk who had stopped to admire the artistry.

Found object: A leather glove

No one ever looks at a lost glove and thinks it’s a close match for one they have recently misplaced. Will this one end up in, rather than on, the trash at the end of the day, or in the lost and found? Do they bother?

Here and gone

The storm wasn’t that bad. But I’m saying that as someone who was walking on the sidewalk rather than trying to dig out a car. You know how the plows come down the street and make a wall of heavy, crunchy snow that’s about three feel tall and as hard as a cinder block?

Rectangles & diamonds (Javits Center)

From a distance, the building looks like a big rectangle, but inside, the Javits Center’s facade reveals itself to be a system of rectangles and diamonds formed from diagonals. Still, a convention center, with its functional architecture, is a place you go for 3-4 hours, then flee from.

A woman and her sloth

Everyone’s got that faraway look. A reflective moment occurred among the people and creature at the Travel Show at the Javits Center over the weekend. My mind was on the sloth and whether we were allowed to pet him.

Holiday windows: snow and penguins

More department store holiday windows – this one’s from Lord & Taylor. Christmas is still going on in midtown, but without the sidewalk bell-ringers and songs playing. The family above looks like Barbies; they have the same face.

Please, Santa

All right, Natalie, whatever you want… and all the rest of you:  get the requests in quickly, or hold them for another year.

Her date’s a walrus

For a pinniped, his hands are quite delicate, she thought. He wants to go for sushi after the show, but she is, as yet, undecided.