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100th Street Candy Store
A great little bodega, the 100th Street Candy Store, wedged in between two much larger buildings on West 100th Street btw. Manhattan Ave and CPW: They’ve got it all, including “lotery tickets and things!” I really like signs with colored lights around the border. -SCOUT
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The West 59th Street Sea Creatures
Way over on West 59th Street between 10th and 11th is this great little Parks Department rec center, dwarfed on all sides by ultra-modern glass-curtain highrises. Once a bath house, the rec center now houses a public pool. What I especially love about this building are the two aquatic sculptures in the upper corners. In…
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You’re Never Alone
I was taking pictures on an empty side-street in Queens near the East River when I suddenly noticed these five guys staring at me from the back of a truck. Haha, OK, it’s obvious in my pictures that it’s just a very high quality photo, but at the time, thinking I was alone, it definitely…
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Enter Here, Stupid
Note: this building is now gone. This building, at Metropolitan and Kent, always has some pretty great (and frequently changing) graffiti, but I especially love the enormous hand that showed up several months ago. It makes me laugh everytime I pass by it. There’s something so direct and obvious about it – “Here’s the door,…