Black and White Photographs of New York - Dave Beckerman
(Grand Central)
When it’s nice and sunny (today) I take my usual trip to Grand Central and back looking for musicians. Couldn’t find any today. For me, the subway is like Monet’s Garden in Giverny. People used to ask him - how in the world can you just keep painting the same subject […]
I’m spending all my time now with the Central Park book. I’ve been going from the easiest (catalog, done) to the hardest (Shadows of New York). Central Park should be smack in the middle. But I swear, it just ain’t easy to put the thing together.
My first crack at it I grouped […]
I read somewhere - once - that the bike messenger was the most dangerous job in New York.
One guess as to who won this dispute. One clue - when the manager comes out and kicks dirt on the umpires shoes - who usually wins.
Down in the Wall Street area a few years ago. No - more than a few years ago since I remember shooting it with a Contax SLR which I had just picked up at Wall Street Camera of all places. I think they went out of business more than a few years ago. […]
(Who do you think is winning? Black has a passed pawn. White is ahead in material.)
I was once a fairly decent chess player (back in college). In fact, for a semester I made pocket money playing chess. One day I entered a chess tournament - for the fun of it. […]
