The Skinniest Ad on 1st Ave

I noticed this odd text advertisement on 1st Ave btw. 10th and 11th the other day – you can see it above the black Lanza’s sign.

1st Ave Ad 01

What’s great about it, to me, is not the ad itself but the fact that someone would consider this minute 2 or 3 . . .

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Death on Hart Island

One aspect of New York that always amazes me is forgotten property. New York – and especially Manhattan – feels overwhelmingly like a city that has no secrets. It’s like every inch has been studied and cataloged by developers, photographed by tourists, written on by graffiti artists, trampled by residents, etc., etc., etc. Obviously, there’s a lot more to see than is readily apparent, . . .

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Jon Stewart Knows Where To Go

Great Daily Show ad at the corner of 52nd & 11th, right near the show’s studio:

DailyShow

I don’t regularly hang out at 52nd & 11th, so this could be years old for all I know (for non-New Yorkers, Larry Flynt’s can’t-miss-it West Side Highway strip club is right around the corner). Out . . .

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Man Leaps From 23rd Street Ledge

Someone emailed me a couple weeks back that there was a man jumping off a ledge on West 23rd btw. 8th & 9th. It took me a while to finally get around to checking it out, but luckily, the man is still in the process of jumping:

Falling Man 01

I believe this is some . . .

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Speaking of Elephants…

Yesterday, I posted about the ornate sign on East 10th Street featuring a herd of elephants. As it happens, I was later in the Upper East Side when I saw this building around the East 60′s, which sort of one-ups it…

Elephant Tusk 01

I mean, the building has its own set of . . .

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Elephants on East 10th Street

This building, 9 East 10th Street (once the home of author Dawn Powell), features a really, really neat building number sign.

Elephant 01

It’s beautifully ornate, especially on this otherwise unremarkable building.

Elephant 02

I love the African theme, sort of feels like it . . .

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