Checker Cab, Midtown Manhattan

Posted: February 2nd, 2009 | Filed under: Citywide

Taxis are so ubiquitous and, like trash, you can drive yourself crazy taking pictures of them, if that’s all you’re looking for. But it’s not every day that you see an old Checker Cab:

Checker Cab, Lexington Avenue and 57th Street, NE Corner, Midtown Manhattan, February 2, 2009

This one was waiting on the corner of 57th and Lexington this afternoon across the street from some stupid film/television shoot — you know, the kind that you try not to notice on principle (this appeared to be several women dressed in furs in a shop window). I don’t know if the cab was related, but it was obviously one of those film prop sort of cabs . . .

Employees Must Wash Hands

Posted: February 2nd, 2009 | Filed under: Citywide, Feed

I don’t know why I think Employees Must Wash Hands signs are funny, but they are. Two new ones from this weekend — Pearl Oyster Bar and Hi-Life Restaurant & Lounge:

Employees Must Wash Hands, Pearl Oyster Bar, 18 Cornelia Street, West Village, Manhattan, January 30, 2009

Employees Must Wash Hands, Hi-Life Restaurant & Lounge, 1503 Second Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan, January 31, 2009

Before it occurred to me to start taking pictures of “Employees . . .” signs, I remember a couple of creative signs — What Bar, owned by freshman State Senator Daniel Squadron, had a good one, if memory serves and Ten63, an early coffee shop in Long Island City (the cafe’s name has been co-opted by a condo development that replaced the building), had a creative one that used claim tickets, again, if I remember correctly. There’s also a whole blog devoted to the signs.