Holiday weekend means empty neighborhood. Later, we took her on a tour of one of the community gardens on our block. Under the subway platform and to the beach. Underpass. Check out the new Thom Mayne-designed Cooper Union building on Bowery. It's weird and wonderful. I don't know about where you live but if you want your haircut at 11:30pm in my neighborhood, it's like no problem. Monday was a little cloudy and overcast. In the afternoon we went over to Matt's apartment to hang out on his roof. The neighborhood was practically empty at night! I <3 NY. Wading our way back home through the street fair! A glance out our living window on Sunday morning revealed a big street fair in the process of setting up on Ave C. Ah, spring. On Wednesday I was down at Disrupt again. Enjoyed lunch in a nearby park. ...then we walked downtown to Grand Street. On Saturday morning, we walked over to St. Marks to stock up on cheapo $5 sunglasses... Steam erasing the sky. On Saturday morning we walked over to Life Cafe for breakfast. We saw the Dead Apple Tours hearse go by. Haha. It was a perfect early spring night and his building has an awesome roof deck. IAC Headquarters in the distance. Spring. Passing through Time Square. In a cab headed home at 6:30am! I dropped off my bag, took an hour nap and hot shower and then went to work! I left work on Friday and headed right to the airport. In the cab I passed Professor X's new place on 23rd Street. Mutants! On Monday morning I was up early to fly to Charlotte, NC for work. There was a beautiful sky behind Brooklyn when I was crossing over the East River. Rocks glass in the trash! Stay classy Friday night, Soho crowd! On Thursday night I walked through the snow to Union Square... I love this photo! On Sunday afternoon Meredith and I walked down to Chinatwon. On Saturday I was in the Flatiron area to pick a few things for Valentine's day. It snowed overnight and the trees were dusted in white. I didn't even know this place even closed! Things get literal on the LES/Chinatown border. Haha. Later that night we walked through the sleeting night... We walked down the street for some post-dinner gelato... Quiet East Village. Happy 2010 ! I got up a little after noon to take the dog for a walk. The streets felt deserted.By 10pm that night, I was headed home! Coming into NYC. We made it in the air just in time to watch the last of the sunlight break through the clouds and bathe NYC in peach light. The streets in NYC felt like they were a hundred yards wide after the narrow streets in Bali. Home! Roof. We went to some party on the top floor of the hotel on Rivington. The northern view from the roof deck is really beautiful. Went to get treats on Sunday morning and saw a rainy accident on Ave B & 14th. I can see our own pool-less roof from here! And a god-damn pool! Beautiful views of the city... ...and went up to his ridiculous roof. See you tomorrow night. Central park looks like aliens showed up and airlifted a huge chunk right out of the middle of the city. I know this is dumb, but somehow it's always shocking to me how much it looks "just like the map!" from the air. I love flying over NYC in the daylight. Driving downtown. Awesome new bike lane was painted on a road that's right on my commute to work! Sunday was another gorgeous day. Meredith and I decided to walk across the Williamsburg bridge and enjoy the weather. View of Manhattan from the bridge. Spring nights on the roof are wonderful. ...to drink beers on the roof and enjoy the evening. Spring 2009 Family Portrait. Nothing beats that first day in spring when you can drive around with the windows down. On Tuesday evening, Meredith and I met up at Radio City Music Hall after work... The trees had just bloomed. After seeing Watchmen , the glass pyramid apartment we saw on 2nd Ave on our walk home held some sort of conspiratorial meaning. Southbound over NYC at night. Beautiful. The cold, clear and wonderfully bleak view from our living room window. Not sure why I took this photo. Snow? On the walk home from Bleecker Street, we came across and old school HOBO FIRE raging in a garbage can. The best thing about winter weekends is not leaving the house until the sun is setting. It's like a perfect rectangle carved into the city. Central Park coming into view. I can see our house from here! (Seriously). No matter how many times I've done it, flying over Manhattan is one of my favorite things and never fails to completely bend my mind. Walked to work on a rainy December Friday to try to clear up my hangover. ...I'm totally shit-hammered. Preston graffiti. The skyline to the north. As we pushed through the masses of people cluttering the sidewalk, I couldn't help but stop and admire... Perfect. ...that sunset. With the Statue of Liberty and everything! Check out how it's dwarfed by the surrounding buildings. The ceremony was held at Seton Shrine, a really cool church built in 1809 that's all the way down at the southern tip of Manhattan in the financial district. At Houston we had to stop and wait for the light. ...and we met up with Meredith's parents in Union Square to bike down to Chinatown for some veggie dim sum! Here's Jo Ann! Check out Lafayette Street! Closed off to traffic and turned into a two-way mega bike lane! On Saturday's in August they close a bunch of Manhattan streets to cars so that everyone can ride bikes everywhere! It's called Summer Streets and it's awesome! All growsed up and all growsed up! Yodle's old offices were located on 39th St and 8th Ave. On Tuesday afternoon I was headed back to the office after lunch and I noticed a certain familiar someone on the giant GAP billboard that they'd recently put up... I took this picture for Lisa because of something she told me that makes me laugh every time I think about it. She told me that when she's walking home at night in Manhattan and there's some big steam pipe coming up out of the street and it's billowing steam everywhere she feels like New York is trying way too hard to be "New Yorky." And she's disgusted by it.
"Ugh, alright, New York. I get it, ok? You're New York." Haha. On Monday after work, the setting sun was lined up perfectly with the Manhattan street grid. Happy June 2008! This photo is pretty representative of my vision at the time. I can see our house from here. On Monday evening I was leaving work and it was one of the nights where the sunset was almost aligned with Manhattan's street-grid. Pretty. The view north up Ludlow from the roof. Yodle's old offices were on 8th Ave and 40th Street and one side of our office windows faced the New York Times Building. We were working in the late afternoon when the relative quiet was disturbed by all sorts of sirens. We looked outside and saw a huge crowd and a bunch of fire and police vehicles gathering at the base of the building. See the "Z" about halfway up the left-hand side of the building that's facing the camera? If you look just to the left of the "Z" you'll see a tiny white pixel. Do you know what that is? ...all the way zoomed in and...HEY WAIT A MINUTE! IS THAT A FUCKING GUY CLIMBING UP THE SIDE OF THE GOD-DAMN BUILDING? Check out the gridlocked insanity on 8th Ave. Looks like they're filming a Hollywood disaster movie or something. Apparently, unbeknown to us, earlier in the day, someone had climbed the other side of the NYT building and this was the SECOND free-climber to scale the same building in a several-hour span! A little more zoom... How about I zoom in a little bit? Skyline north. 
