December 2008 – Scouting NY

Clean Hands Protect Health!

This was painted on the tile wall of a kitchen that probably hasn’t been used in about 60 years: I […]

When I was a little kid, seeing two abandoned buildings like these would have set my imagination racing. I would

Merry Belated Christmas/Happy Hanukkah/Holidays/Etc.! I was grappling with two enormous backpacks on my way out of the city on Tuesday

Nothing is better than driving through a neighborhood I’ve never been to and stumbling on something like this: You can

Watch out when you’re coming out of the Bedford Avenue L-Train stop in Williamsburg… …Someone hung mistletoe above the stairwell

This isn’t a secret or anything, but Hook & Ladder #8 has been dressed for the season and looks great,

Note: this is now gone. This is probably familiar to anyone who drives down Flushing Ave off of the old

Nothing makes scouting a claustrophobic, pitch-black abandoned underground tunnel by flashlight better than looking up and seeing these things a

A few years back, I was working on a film that had a camera position on the roof of a

The amount of detail to be found in NYC is absolutely mind-boggling, to the point where there are ornamentation and

I was early for an appointment at a Brooklyn college this afternoon to shoot some science labs, so I stopped

Look closely – it’s only wide enough for one window. This renovated brownstone, wedged between two much larger buildings, is

Note: this is now gone. I was under the JMZ elevated subway line in South Williamsburg today near Marcy Ave

Just a quick one today. This is one of the coolest warehouse signs in Greenpoint: -SCOUT

I love being surprised by the city. Living in New York, you somehow adopt a jaded attitude that you’ve seen