Washington Square Park Reopens

Yay! Today after 18+ months of refurbishment, the tall chain link fences came down in Washington Square allowing people to congregate around the new fountain and enjoy a beautiful spring day. I can't wait for a nice, warm Sunday afternoon for some good bench warming, book reading, music listening good times.

Preserving the South Village (and Bleecker Street)

The New York Times has an article today lamenting the slow action of the landmark council to create a new historic district in Greenwich Village. One of the buildings cited in the article is located directly across the street from my apartment at 178 Bleecker St.


178 Bleecker Street

And, here's a photo looking across Bleecker St. over the roof tops of the old 1860's tenement buildings.


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Babel Tales NYC photo series

Danish photographer Peter Funch stakes New York City street corners out for two weeks at a time, taking pictures of passersby from the very same spot. But what he does next may be even more labor-intensive.

For his “Babel Tales” photo series, Funch picked dozens of the same types of pedestrians — smokers, cell-phone gabbers, hospital-scrubs wearers, yawners — and Photoshopped them into the same frames. In one photo, Times Square shutterbugs turn into a swarm of paparazzi. In another, an ocean of kids seems to wash over the city. Funch has even created a New York where everyone carries flowers. Now, wouldn’t that be a nice city to live in?