New York at Night (15)

5th Avenue, 8pm

These food vendors are everywhere, and I see lots 
of people grabbing lunch or a quick snack from them.
Everyone needs to make a living and I'm pretty 
sure the Health Dept. checks these carts out.  
That said—maybe I'm just chicken, but I've never
eaten this food and probably never will.


[Linking back to Olivier's Walk in the Street challenge.]

New York at Night (13)

Times Square, Tuesday at 8 PM—
the crowds here make me nuts at pretty 
much any hour of the day or night.
On the one hand, I'm glad they
cleaned this area up.  On the other . . .


[I'm linking back to Olivier's Walk in
the Street Challenge. To see more, go here.]

Walk in the Street

Madison Avenue, between &70th & 71st.
These boys were with their dad, waiting
on line at the opening of the Ladurée
store in NYC.  If they'd known what a
treat they were in for (macarons!), they
 probably wouldn't have been able to
concentrate so hard on that game.
[I'm linking back to Olivier's brilliant
Walk in the Street meme. See more here:
http://walkinnewyork.blogspot.com/]

Walk in the Street

Andy Warhol's getting another 15 minutes.
This life-size chrome statue, by sculptor
Rob Pruitt, stands (until next month, I hear) in
Union Square, very near the site of the Factory
(the one from the '70s), across the park from Max's Kansas City
(where I met him in the '60s), and very close to where
he used to stand and hand out copies of Interview.
[To see more from the Walk in the Street
challenge, visit  Olivier's blog.]

Walk in the Street

Found this painter and his subjects in Washington
Square Park—from the look on that woman's face, I'm
thinking these folks have been posing here for a while!
[To see more of Olivier's Walk in the Street challenge, go here.]

Walk in the Street

This reminds me that I really need to wash
my windows.  Fortunately, I can do it myself
the old-fashioned way—no hydraulics required
(like here, at the Richard Meier building next door).
[To see more of Olivier's Walk in the Street challenge, go here.]

Walk in the Street

This guy was entertaining the kids who
came with their parents to shop at my
local greenmarket in Brooklyn. The very next 
day, I passed by the Alice in Wonderland statue
in Central Park—and there he was again.
[To see more of Olivier's Walk in the Street
challenge, go here.]

Challenge: Walk in the Street

They set up a block party/street fair near my office
last Friday (kind of unusual for a weekday
in midtown).  I was surprised to see people lined up
for fried Oreos. (Might possibly be delish, but . . . seriously?)
So what's your favorite forbidden food?
[This is my walk in the street. To see more, go here.]

Challenge: Walk in the Street

While walking in the street in Venice, I encountered this
charming gondoliere and his friend.  I tried to take the shot
surreptitiously, but they caught me—and smiled anyway.  Grazie!
[To see more "street" shots, go here.]

Balloon Boy 3

Looks like someone is celebrating their 80th birthday!
I love it when I see some random guy walking
down the street (or riding the subway!) with
a big bouquet of colorful balloons.  This one
seems to have a full complement of tattoos too. 
[I'm linking back to Olivier Perrin's Walk in the Street 
challenge.  To see more, go here.]