So. What have I done lately?

Well, I went up the Empire State building and took pictures of unsuspecting tourists.





And while I was up there, I took a couple of pictures of the city. It seemed a shame not to.

Where have I been?

That's really none of your business. Suffice to say that they let me out.

Now. Here are some pictures I took before I went inside.



East 7th St. and Ave. A.
There used to be a club called A7 on this corner back in the Nineteen Eighties. A band called Ism wrote a song about it, and it was the B-Side for their cover of the Partidge family song "I Think I Love You", which featured a picture of two fornicating monkeys with the faces of Shirley Jones and David Cassidy. That was very amusing when I was 15 years old.

LES, May 2010

LES, May 2010

Chinatown May 2010

See! Here's more already.

Mott St, June 5, 2010

Took about a thousand pictures in Chinatown yesterday...

Here are a few. Believe me, there will be more to come.

Mott St, June 6, 2010

... and some of the gents.

Manhattan, West 25th, East 58th and points in between, 3/23/10

All taken from the car. Someone else was driving this time.

If I was a man this would be so much skeevier...

But I am a nice middle aged lady (a mom, even) so my intentions are completely pure.

The lovely ladies of 25th street, taken while sitting in the car for a half hour watching out for traffic wardens, yesterday, 03/23/10.

At the time, I cursed that cyclist for ruining my picture...

But now I think he is the best thing about it.

West 25th St, Sept 2007

The man in the street.

May 13, 2008

May 13, 2008

June 2009

A day at the beach and a stroll through the wasteland.

Fort Tilden, Jacob Riis Park, Rockaway Beach, Queens.
March 7, 2010

New Yorkers may wear a lot of black...

... but that does not mean they are afraid of a little color.

Central Park at 5th ave, February 2010

Lilly Pulitzer shop, 5th ave February 2010

315 8th Ave, October 2009.

Lower East Side, Aug 2009

New Yorkers appreciate art!

And look mighty fine doing it. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 02/27/10

Tourists beware!

Warning! Up and down Fifth Avenue roving gangs of smartly dressed rogues are pulling the old snowball-in-the-handbag trick on unsuspecting visitors! The mere sight of stylish luggage in the hands of anyone but themselves drives these jealous dandies to vile acts of snow-based vandalism!

"What ho?"

Thankfully, disaster was averted when this particular scheming fop was scuppered mid-dip. Hopefully the gentleman at the front was using his pocket-phone to alert the constabulary.

Keep alert! These handsome bounders will surely strike again!

Sometimes you just need to see them larger.

View large

West 29th Street, May 2007

Definitely view large

(these guys crack me up)

Brooklyn (Grand St.) November 2009

Whatever you do, don't look at the rabbit.

You will only encourage him.

Taken on May 25, 2007, over my shoulder through my rear window while stopped in traffic on West 29th Street (or thereabouts).

It was 87 degrees out. That's some dedication to incomprehensible self-indulgence.

The second picture was also featured on The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks. One of my proudest moments.