Hunter walker

This man decided that the 2 train was the best place to read the latest issue of ‘Nasty Housewives’ magazine.

“The ideal of quiet and of genteel retirement, in 1835, was found in Washington Square, where the doctor built himself a handsome, modern, wide-fronted house, with a big balcony before the drawing-room windows, and a flight of white marble steps ascending to a portal which was also faced with white marble. This structure, and many of its neighbors, which it exactly resembled, were supposed, forty years ago, to embody the the last results of architectural science, and they remain to this day very solid and honorable dwellings. In front of them was the square, containing a considerable quantity of inexpensive vegetation enclosed by a wooden paling, which increased its rural and accessible appearance; and round the corner was the more august precinct of the Fifth Avenue, taking its origin at this point with a spacious and confident air which already marked it for high destinies. I know not whether it is owing to the tenderness of early associations, but this portion of New York appears to many persons the most delectable. It has a kind of established repose which is not of frequent occurrence in other quarters of the long, shrill  city.” 

-Henry James, Washington Square (1880)

‘Twilight’ Connection in Big Heroin Bust

DEA Special Agent Erin McKenzie-Mulvey  tells us the heroin baggies with “Twilight” characters were seized recently in West Hempstead, Long Island. The “Twilight”-themed baggies have been gaining popularity over the last couple of months.

[TMZ via synecdoche]

“Construction of Brooklyn Bridge” - George Bradford Brainerd

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The Dakota circa 1890.

What strikes me most about this picture is how much urban development happened in the subsequent 60 years or so.  By the 1950s, New York as we know it was starting to take shape.  In this picture, the UWS looks downright desolate.

(via: radararchive)

E. 2nd Street & 2nd Ave.

My view from section 420b in the nosebleeds moments before Hideki Matsui hit his homerun.

Well, at least I tried.