Tall Water Tanks

Just plain tall, or raised to pump up the force of gravity.  Above left, on Greene St. off 8th St.; above right, on 37th St. west of 8th Ave.


Above left, from Lafayette & Bond Sts.; above right, at 60th St. & Broadway.


Above left, somewhere down Lafayette; above right, from Madison Ave. & 23rd St.  And finally, below, a new tank east of Union Square, backed by the top of the Con Ed building on 14th St.

More Mad Hatters

Above and below left, the ragtag irregular army at Yurim Trading on 6th Ave.


Above right, a solar system of space headgear at Effetto Fashion on 37th St.  And below, right next door at Couture Inc., bright objects that (I imagine) are sported by church ladies who've been locked for decades in a headgear space race.

More New Nice-y (NYC)

Clouds pass over 11th Ave. & 28th St.  Sadly, the wide open space of "Hudson Yards," just north, is destined to be more of the same we've seen for the past decade, a massive antiseptic hive for all the corporate drones drawn to wi-fi / bike lane / luxury service industry NYC, now pronounced "nice-y."  It's sad to see a city once worthy of dreams, of stories that sought meaning, happily succumb to a living death where the narrative is under corporate control, and meaning just equals money.



I guess it's good I've been in brain-dead economic survival mode for months now, without time to fret over the fate of the world, much less this easily seduced city.  I am turning into a drone, and by the time my transformation is complete, the city's will be too, and we'll all live happily ever after in a massive iPhone Puppet Show -- tracked and guided by caring corporate voices through the aisles of life, friction and worry free -- free at last of the need to decide which way the story goes, free at last of the burden of meaning.

Liberty Tower Light

At Liberty & Nassau Sts.

Bennett Building

The Bennett Building at Ann & Nassau Sts., "perhaps the tallest cast-iron building in the world."

Rolls Royce Car Wash

Another yellow car one story closer to heaven, on top of the car wash / repair shop at Union Ave. & Meserole St. in Williamsburg.  This junker is a Rolls Royce, which reminds me that the soundtrack to one of my favorite stupid movies, Car Wash, was done by Rose Royce.