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From The New York Shitty Photo Pool, Part II: NY Shitty
I arrived home today from my not-completely successful stint as tour guide more than a little bit tired. I was BEAT. Cracking open a nice cold Budweiser and finding this in my photo pool (which comes courtesy of amolho4) well, made me smile. Love it!!!
Miss Heather
From The New York Shitty Photo Pool: Escape
This nifty shot comes courtesy of the newest member of my photo pool: drbooks!
Miss Heather
New York Shitty Day Starter: Same Train, Different World
Filed under: 10009, 11211, East Village, East Village Manhattan, Subway, Williamsburg, Williamsburg Brooklyn
Eighth Avenue Bound L Train
Canarsie Bound L Train
Miss Heather
New York Shitty Day Ender: The Crosstown Local Rides Again!
Filed under: 11101, Crosstown Local, Greenpoint, Greenpoint Brooklyn, Greenpoint Magic
(Or: Happy Belated Mother’s Day From 21st Street)
It looks innocent enough.
This Mother’s Day tome is sweet albeit in an urban kind of way.
Then you see and smell this.
WTF?
Miss Heather
Reader Contribution Du Jour: Subway Etiquette
Melissa (who sent me the above find) writes:
I found this on the floor at a train station somewhere in Manhattan. I took it home, it is now taped to my wall.
I want to take a moment to thank Melissa for forwarding me this choice item. It made my day!
Miss Heather
Update, 7:12 p.m.: I have just received some additional material from Melissa.
She writes:
Credit where credit is due. I didn’t realize the bottom was cut off in the picture.
Credit given!
Quicklink: The L Train Rat
Filed under: 11211, 11222, Crosstown Local, East Village, East Village Manhattan, Subway, Williamsburg, Williamsburg Brooklyn
Those of you who are looking for a little lite entertainment and happen to be on Twitter may want to give this, the musings of a L train rat, a look-see. If you do, here’s a sampling of what you’ll find:
i get so self conscious when everyone watches me look for food on the track
every once in awhile people at the 1st ave stop smell like delicious fried dough and i just want to kill myself
people seem to hate me 100x more when i’m rained on.
too fat to fit inside bottle 🙁 should probably go on a run to 8th ave.
Special thanks go out to Lisacat for bringing this to my attention. Check it out!
Miss Heather
New York Shitty Day Ender: Lost & Found In Translation
From Mott Street, Manhattan
This (which hails from the Canal Street stop of the 6 train in Manhattan) is bona fide proof that New York City is still an international city— if not in subway service, at least in anger directed at lack of said subway service. Only the MTA could make this kind of racial/ethnic unity (albeit while employing profanity) happen. Mazel tov!
The use of sarcastic quotation marks is a nice touch.
Miss Heather
P.S.: Can anyone give me a translation of the Chinese annotation on this flier? My curiousity is driving me crazy.
Subway Photo Du Jour: Cell Phone Lover’s Special
From the Brooklyn-bound platform of the N/R at Prince Street.
Miss Heather
Nifty Consumer Item of The Day: Subway (He)art
When I saw this delightfully frivolous and fun item— a heart-shaped map of the New York City subway system— on the Subway Art Blog* yesterday it was love at first sight. So you can imagine my disappointment when I learned it is not available in the United States… yet. Today I was informed by the owner of Greenpoint’s very own Word Books (who saw them at the recent gift show at the Javits Center) that she will be selling them once they get a U.S. distributor. I can hardly wait!
Miss Heather
Photo Credits: Zero Per Zero via Subway Art Blog
*Which is really nifty. I highly recommend you check it out.
Reader Contribution Du Jour: Edie’s Big Adventure!
Okay, this has nothing to do with north Brooklyn per se but when I saw these shots of Edie the strap-hanging hamster enjoying a ride on the 4 train I went into an extreme fit of cute overload. Wanting— no make that NEEDING— to know the story behind these I shot an email to Edie’s “person”, Victoria. Here’s the scoop:
I’m a photographer for the DA’s office and there is a women there who makes these models (trains, apts, buildings, etc) for court cases, as a visual aid for the jury. The train is perfectly hamster sized so I brought my super tame hamster into work yesterday for a little photo shoot. They came out better than expected. I’m really excited about them.
Well done, Victoria! I can only hope Edie will go on more adventures in the near future. Perhaps next time she can ride the G train or drive one of those new buses with fellow rodentia in tow?* In any case, you can see more of Edie and her introduction to the joy that is mass transit by clicking here. WARNING: by clicking the aforementioned you will view images that are mind-blowingly adorable!
Miss Heather
*Replete passengers sporting earbuds, i-Pods, and and i-Phones.
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