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...

23 Wall Street

author: Peter : New York, NY

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...

Newtown Creek

author: Catherine Penfold-Waxman : Brooklyn, NY

As blogged earlier today: 12:20pm We're about to embark on a three hour tour up Newtown Creek, NY. It's one of the most poluted waterways in the country. Mr. Me and a friend, the Watchmaker, are on board the Half Moon boat at the 23rd street port waiting to be off. There will be lectures about the history and ecology of the creek and the area. 2:06pm Oh god the smell. We're at the end of the creek next to the metropolitan ave bridge. The water is colon-blow black. The stench is worse than I thought it would be. There no...

Heavy MTL 2008: Mötley Crüe

author: EvilGentleman : Montreal, QC

This is the third article of the Heavy MTL concert series. June 22, 2008. Parc Jean Drapeau. 9:30 PM. Disturbed has just finished their set. Thousands of pumped-up heavy metal fans await the last act of the best metal festival in Montreal this century. Many of these fans saw Iron Maiden rock the house the night before. They will not be disappointed. They are about to see Mötley Crüe at their finest. A couple Lofts for Rent

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