. . . but short of that, here are some pictures of the Blizzard of December 2010:
The DVD line at the Duane Reade:
People abandoned cars all over because the City hadn’t plowed the streets in a timely fashion:
The City not plowing had potentially dangerous implications:
Bloomberg should be on the hook for this . . . I’d love to hear what went wrong.
A going-away dinner for a friend at Old Shanghai Deluxe in Manhattan’s Chinatown (by request — she was going to miss Chinese food like that).
New Long Island City items: Hook and Ladder 66, The Foundry, Metropolitan Building (funny story — I attended an art opening many years back and assumed for all this time that the people lived there and that this wasn’t actually an event space), Taxidepot (combines LIC’s two biggest industries — taxis and the film industry), Tom Cat Bakery (that’s where your bread comes from) and Z Hotel.
A page for the Queens-Midtown Tunnel compiles the ever-evolving billboards along Vernon Boulevard that are visible from the Manhattan-bound tunnel entrance (more to come as I get to them):
We already went over Washington, D.C.
Lucy the Elephant in Margate, New Jersey:
Laziza and Kabab Cafe in Astoria, Queens:
Tagging along with Jen on a work-related function at La Plaza Cultural in the East Village; never been inside there so I was excited about that:
Also, an aborted outing to the Prospect Park Bandshell.
Already went over Play Me I’m Yours, Peru and Boston — all of which happened in July 2010. Here’s the rest . . .
NYU Langone Medical Center — the less said about that the better except to note that I now believe there could be such a thing as “reverse altitude sickness” that happens when one’s body readjusts to sea level. This is an anecdotal, not a medical, opinion.
M. Wells Diner in Long Island City is a cool use of a cool old diner. Top image is from February 2005 and the one below it is what it looks like inside now:
I always wanted to go inside the diner and never did.
We had just read Bill Buford’s Among The Thugs, so I was psyched to see Manchester United supporters with what appears to be an 18-pack of Bud in tow in the Grand Central-42nd Street Subway Station on the day of Man U’s pre-season match against the MSL Philadelphia Union franchise:
Rockaway Taco is cool because of where it is, and makes you wonder whether the daily commute into Manhattan via the A train would be all that bad.
