At noon, a horse-drawn wagon passed by lunchtime crowds on Wall Street in New York City. The wagon then stopped across the street from the headquarters of the J.P. Morgan Inc. bank at 23 Wall Street, on the Financial District's busiest corner. Inside, 100 pounds (45 kg) of dynamite with 500 pounds (230 kg) of heavy cast-iron slugs exploded in a timer-set detonation, sending the slugs tearing through the air. The horse and wagon were vaporized. Dozens of bodies littered the street, and the bomb caused over $2 million in property damage, wrecking most of the interior spaces of the...

Justified & Ancient

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY

Icecream truck at Friday night's Sonic Youth show, the last concert at McCarren Park Pool. The cement structure to the left of the truck is a decaying diving platform. The sand in the foreground has been used to fill the former diving tank, where I was standing when I snapped this flick... Brooklyn, NY...

Street Poems

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY

I spotted this stuck to an advertisement on the Lorimer stop on the L train... www.mrtoll.com Brooklyn, NY...

Reskew Pt. 2

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY

More Rskw pieces. This one is from Coney Island Avenue in Ditmas Park... These are on Atlantic Avenue adjacent to the site of the ongoing Atlantic Yards project... Graffiti in Brooklyn, NY...

Anne Frank

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY

More random odds and ends... came across this while exploring the Brooklyn Army Terminal with Upfromflames. Brooklyn, NY...

Nature Reclaiming

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY

More from the Brooklyn Army Terminal... Brooklyn, NY...

Coney Island Preacher

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY

Preaching to passersby on the boardwalk at Coney Island... Brooklyn, NY...

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