Wiring

I was a phone company cable splicer for a while, so I tend to notice utility lines.  On top and below left, a mainly cable TV cluster on Berry near N 8th in Williamsburg.


Above right, a waterfall of wire serves Bryant Park -- for stuff like the huge Citibank ice rink / mall last winter -- from a power generator on Sixth Ave.


Above left, a grainy closeup of a naked phone company splice -- where trunk cables, which can have thousands of wires, are connected.  Splices being worked on usually have a rubber "boot," like the one above right, to protect them from the elements until they get an aluminum case.


And finally -- near the splicing above, in front of Greenpoint's Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant on Provost near Green -- an old fire alarm box.  I fear its old wires, above left, may be connected to the wrong utility line -- note the ghostly glove of the last person to pull the alarm, above right.

Accidental Street Sculpture 2

Above, someone has been screwing with my Emergency Propaganda Trailer, parked at the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant.

Below left, a used Budweiser has been perfectly placed next to the extension cord that powers some subterranean operation in the East Village.  And on the right, on Chrystie St. off Houston, a scene so synchronized I had to capture it -- even the legs line up, like Abbey Road.

Coffee Tree

Nature, motivated by our escalating attacks, starts producing things in the form we prefer.

Here, a coffee tree blooms at Grand St. & Vandervoort Ave. in Brooklyn.