Winter Exhaust

Above, a cold day in Chelsea from the Flag Foundation on 25th St.  Below, a slightly warmer day on Library Way (41st St.) near Madison.

Freedom Caution Alien

"Freedom" being pushed up the East River

Drinking fountain at McCarren Park

Two headed hunchback space alien on 19th St. near Park Ave. South

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.