Scenes From NYC
A few interesting sights while I was in NYC this past weekend. Starting with Christmas Trees being sold outside of a Duane Reade around 90th/Broadway. DR is like CVS/Rite Aid.
A really cool interior of a wine store around 90th/Broadway. I didn't catch the name of it. See that wooden "roof"? I guess it's just dead space in between that and the 3rd floor of that building. It was the coolest wine store I've ever been in.
Like many wine stores, the libations were divvy'd up by region. These regions were demarcated with carved wooden signs including the shapes of each region. Classy.
A closeup of one of the nice wall lamps in the wine store.
I spied an OLPC in the wild at a Starbucks around 90th/Broadway. I know that there's at least one floating around in Philly.
This is one of the racks inside Best Cellars in the Upper West Side. After I snapped a few frames, I was told by the British lady behind the counter that the design was patented and that I was not to take any more photos. I smirked. I later said to my brother in law that any designer worth their salt wouldn't need a photo of the place to re-create it. Just about as stupid as not allowing photography on the Ben Franklin Bridge (or any other bridge/tunnel/whathaveyou) for "securty" reasons.
A bunch of light bulbs thumbtacked into the wall of my brother in law's father's house. His dad calls it the Museum of Futility. It's a pretty neat place with tons of junk that I wanted to paw through for hours. To give you some scale, the thin halogen bar bulb at bottom-center is the one that you'd put in one of your standard fire hazard, open top, dimming lamps.
A Stereo Realist camera. This was on a shelf next to the light bulbs in the Museum. What a cool piece of work. It produced a stereo 3D image.
December 30th, 2007 @ 7:21 pm
I used to live at 86th and Columbus, so these shots really capture the neighborhood for me. Thanks. Happy New Year!