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author: sally : New York, NY
 From the 8th floor balcony at Hunter College, facing South:
author: CC : New York, NY

This picture was taken Friday, May 5th on a Flushing bound 7 express at 9:45 PM.
We were between 61st street and Junction when my mother nudged me and whispered that the man across from us had his genitalia out. Funny thing is that we all got on at Times Square and my friend and I acknowledged his presence because he was reading an Archie comic book (who reads those nowadays?) So I looked over and realized what he's been doing all this time. He was watching us from underneath his sunglasses, hoping that we'd notice. I took out my...
author: Little Ukraine : New York, NY
 here are the promised pics
1. Here is Cooper Union and the Astor Place Building behind
2. Here is the Wanamaker Building
3. Here is the Public Theatre
4. Here are two intact mosaics across the square from the A.P. Building
5. Here is another mosaic
6. This is the destroyed mosaic.
7. This is a shot of the general area - the lamppost on the left, directly in front of the A.P. Building, is the one where the mosaic was removed - the one on the right still contains its mosaic.
author: Little Ukraine : New York, NY
First off sorry for the lack of pictures - I'll be going out in a minute to try to get some good ones.
I'm trying to decide how best to put this story into context, so let me start by saying that two years ago a building was constructed on Astor Place in the East Village that is considered by many to be just plain ugly. I won't try to describe all the implications of the construction of this building - here is a link to a good New Yorker article by Paul Goldberger, from which I'll pull a... author: Catherine Penfold-Waxman : New York, NY

On the subway this morning.
author: little ukraine : New York, NY

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