Andrew In The City

Jonathan Ames and John Hodgman

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:02:30 -0400

At BookCourt, screening the season 2 premiere of Bored to Death

Chris Rock

Fri, 27 May 2011 22:05:08 -0400

Coming out of a theatre on 45th St after his show “The Motherfucker with the Hat” on Broadway

Aziz Ansari

Wed, 25 May 2011 21:53:18 -0400

Astor Place by the Cube

Wyatt Cenac

Fri, 20 May 2011 19:17:20 -0400

Entrance to the Broadway-Laffayate subway stop

Grocery Shopping in New York City

Tue, 10 May 2011 13:37:44 -0400

Grocery Shopping in New York City:

In most cities, you just load up your trunk. In New York, getting some grub is a bit more complicated.

The colorful array of macarons at Macaron Cafe on 36th b/w 7th...

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 13:25:01 -0500

The colorful array of macarons at Macaron Cafe on 36th b/w 7th an Bway. This place is a wonderful gem of Midtown- if you are in the area, stop by for some macarons and amazing coffee

Escalator to the High St Station for the AC in Brooklyn. (This...

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 13:08:40 -0500

Escalator to the High St Station for the AC in Brooklyn. (This is one of my 2 new stations)

elspethjane: How to Talk Like a New Yorker (via...

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 16:53:27 -0500

elspethjane:

How to Talk Like a New Yorker (via rocketboomnyc)

This will certainly be making an appearance in the near future on my latest site project: Become A New Yorker !

Painted advertisement at 34th/8th for the Nets featuring Jay-Z,...

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 12:43:50 -0400

Painted advertisement at 34th/8th for the Nets featuring Jay-Z, the Russian billionaire who owns the team and Gowalla.

Bleeker St subway

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 08:28:27 -0400

Bleeker St subway

Outdoor movie in Brooklyn Bridge Park - The Big Lebowski!

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:41:11 -0400

Outdoor movie in Brooklyn Bridge Park - The Big Lebowski!

Washington Square Park in the summer

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 19:28:42 -0400

Washington Square Park in the summer

ericazucco: After sampling pizzas from lands far and wide- from...

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:19:23 -0400

ericazucco:

After sampling pizzas from lands far and wide- from deep dish delights at Gino’s East in Chicago to super-sized slices from the streets of New York, I can say with authority that the nation’s best pizza comes from Shakespeare’s Pizza in Columbia, Mo. During my three years at Mizzou’s J-School- right across the street- I spent (too) many 12:00 after-class lunch hours making memories with friends by the brick ovens- and their wheat-crust veggie pizza became a 11:00 Communications Law daydream. Apparently, they ship frozen pies… a potential solution for the insatiable craving that has infiltrated my tastebuds.

In other words, their pizza is really, really good. If you’re ever in Missouri, you need to check it out.

Seriously. Best pizza out there. I had the same in-class day dreams, but mine were in the Professional Building and Middlebush while listening to the various lessons to be learned in microeconomics and political statistics courses.

We’d been kicking around the idea of ordering some frozen pies for a football game this year. Perhaps sooner rather than later.

Opening of a polo match in Bridgehampton.

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:07:01 -0400

Opening of a polo match in Bridgehampton.

Artists on Park Avenue sketching the facade of Grand Central

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:46:47 -0400

Artists on Park Avenue sketching the facade of Grand Central

Inside of David and Jeanie’s barn in East Hampton- this is...

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:17:34 -0400

Inside of David and Jeanie’s barn in East Hampton- this is where we stay when we visit the Hamptons during the summer. It is a gorgeous and quiet escape from the city which they built themselves. See some of their other projects at: http://stilesdesigns.com/

View inside the bamboo art installation atop the Met. They put...

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:34:27 -0400

View inside the bamboo art installation atop the Met. They put a new installation up each summer that people can walk in and around.

A recent art installation in the city placed a number of pianos...

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:15:06 -0400

A recent art installation in the city placed a number of pianos around public places for people to play. This guy was actually filming a music video on this one.

Read more here: http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/06/21/pianos.installation/index.html

The piano you see in the video still on that page is actually the same one in this picture.

elspethjane: rocketboom: bestrooftalkever: Have you ever...

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:55:18 -0400

elspethjane:

rocketboom:

bestrooftalkever:

Have you ever walked around in Lower Manhattan and noticed a trail of paint on the sidewalk?

About 3 years ago, one of my friends in school decided to follow the trail around and noticed that the trail produced the image that you see above; a strange-looking rendering of what appeared to be the word “momo.” MOMO, we found out, was the name of an artist that used to be based in NYC, and sure enough, the one responsible for tagging his name across the width of Manhattan.

After requesting a meetup, MOMO told my friend that he accomplished this task by fixing 5 gallon paint buckets to the back of his bike, poking a hole in the bottom of the containers, and riding though the West Village, SoHo, Greenwich Village, East Village, and Alphabet City. Momo made the tag in 2006. Some parts of the line have been covered up by roadwork and redone sidewalks but most of the line is still visible.

To me, the interesting thing about the line is how both similar and different it is to regular graffiti. Essentially, most graffiti writers enjoy seeing their name on thing. The bigger they can paint it and the more visible their tag is, the more people will notice their conquering of the city. MOMO created the largest tag in New York, yet the scale of his work here, so massive that it can’t all be viewed at once, means that thousands of people will walk on it each day and never even notice it. It’s simultaneously the biggest and smallest artistic statement I have seen in my time here.

MOMO made a video about the line which you can see here.

If you ever walk over it, now you’ll know what you’re looking at.

Westward view of 53rd St from the Gannett Media offices- you an...

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:44:48 -0400

Westward view of 53rd St from the Gannett Media offices- you an spot the Peninsula Hotel in the right with the red umbrellas