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Courtesy of Steve O'Neill, inventor of New York City's famous "No Horn Blowing Except for Anger" sign.
August 17, 2006
Eyes on the Street: Friday, August 4, 2006
Woman crossing at 43rd Street and Ninth Avenue. Video still by Clarence Eckerson
August 7, 2006
Eyes on the Street: Above the Cross Bronx ‘Expressway’
Saturday, July 29, 2006, at the Jesup Avenue bridge over the Cross Bronx "Expressway." I called 311 to get the city to tow that abandoned car away, but the operator needed an address or an intersection to locate this vehicle. An address would be a stretch, and the computer didn't accept "Jesup Avenue and the Cross Bronx 'Expressway'" as a known intersection.
August 1, 2006
We’re in Good Hands With Allstate
Above: A message from Allstate, the company that recently stopped renewing New York City home insurance policies due to the increasing risk of global warming-induced hurricanes. Spotted on Broadway near 9th Street.
July 28, 2006
Williamsburg Bike Parking Woes
A Streetsblog tipster writes in with a nice slice-of-life dispatch:
July 25, 2006
Eyes on the Street: Weekend Edition
I recently took this boat, a water taxi, from Red Hook to South Street Seaport. Landing at the Seaport after having just been in Red Hook about five minutes earlier gives one an odd supernatural sense of having been teleported.
July 21, 2006
What’s Wrong With This Picture?
Ozone Alert in New York City: We warn children, the
elderly and people with heart and lung conditions to keep off of city
streets until air quality has improved. We suggest that motorists might use mass transit.
July 17, 2006
Protecting Public Space by Banishing People
Here is the latest in Jeff Zupan's photo series on security barricades and their effect on New York City street life:
July 12, 2006
Bus Stop. Hamburg, Germany
What it looks like when a city decides that bus riders can and should have a first-class transportation system.
July 12, 2006