I was taking pictures on an empty side-street in Queens near the East River when I suddenly noticed these five guys staring at me from the back of a truck.
Haha, OK, it’s obvious in my pictures that it’s just a very high quality photo, but at the time, thinking I was alone, it definitely induced a momentary double-take.
Best truck ad ever.
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Forget that Oscar dream – I’ve been nominated for the CBS 2011 Most Valuable New York Blogger Awards! Sweet! Specifically, I’m in the Local Affairs category, and if you happen to feel I am indeed New York’s Most Valuable Local Affairs Blogger, you can vote for me here. In fact, if you really think I’m…
Friday’s finally here, and it’s time for another wrap-up of various odds and ends from a week in scouting. First, I was checking out a rooftop in the East Village when I noticed this interesting ice formation from the drain… …which, if you look at it from the right angle, looks like a very sinister…
Wanted to share some really neat details I noticed while scouting in Chelsea the other day. This building, at the corner of 23rd & Ninth, is known as London Terrace Gardens and actually stretches all the way to 10th Ave. When it was built in 1931, it was considered the largest apartment building in the…
This is Part 3 of a then-and-now look at the New York City filming locations of The Warriors. Click here for Part 1; click here for Part 2! Continuing from where we left off, we rejoin the three Warriors who have made it to Union Square. We see a train coming into the station… Wait…
Note: I think this is now gone. You’ve probably seen this sign a million times. It’s on Broadway, just north of Canal Street, and I always assumed there was a stationery store keeping it around for nostalgia value. Except…there is no stationery store. I looked a little closer when I took this picture though, and…
I’ve been scouting neighborhoods up in Yonkers recently (made all the more fun by kids off from school on a snow day trying to hit me with snowballs – thanks, kids!). As I was driving around last week, I started to notice something strange… Someone has been going around and writing “You can’t stop Oprah!”…
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that is a great ad!
by the way, i love your blog. i live in seattle and have always wanted to visit NYC. but alas, i’m broke. 🙂 i keep telling myself i’m going to visit on my next vacation. but in the meantime i’ll just read your blog.
thanks!
That is so funny haha!
Sweet jaysuz that is brilliant! Creepy but brilliant. I ,at first ,thought how did they manage to sit with such symetry….and look so directly into your lens!
Ha! I thought they were real… Even on the *big size pic* on Flickr, they still look very real. Brilliant!