The Citigroup Center building (on the left, with the sloped roof) has a fascinating story. I’d explain it, but you can just go to Wikipedia to read it. On the right, the oval-shape building is the Lipstick Building. It was designed in part by Philip Johnson and is where Bernie Madoff schemed his schemes.
Has a sort of Star Wars feel. Or a very sinister Space Mountain vibe.
Even if the English had been rendered correctly, “As old as the hills” would still make no sense as a slogan.
For the most part when we’ve done noodles in Chinatown, the ol’ lady and I have gone to Big Wong or Hong Kong Noodle Station. No more! Last night we went to Lam Zhou Handmade Noodles & Dumplings in the part of Chinatown just east of the Manhattan Bridge. Sure, that we were out in [...]
I’m on a quest to find the best gyro in New York. The Greek Corner was recommended somewhere as not "the best" but at least a good one. It was actually pretty good. It’s conveniently close to the office.
This photo and the last one will reveal a bit of a not-so-scandalous secret. I don’t really blog these photos to Kublog the day I take them. Often, I do them in batches and then timestamp them for the date they were taken on. As you can see, this photo is from the same session [...]
For self-portraits, I’ve set my camera’s custom self-timer mode to shoot five photos with a two-second delay between each. While singing, I set the camera to self-timer, and balanced it on a glass. It managed to take some crappy photos before someone grabbed it and took this one. We went to Duet 48 on East [...]
Rafiqi’s street carts are redoing their menus. I caught the guys in action on a photo shoot. Currently, dishes are pictured on the carts’ menus in Styrofoam containers. The new visual menus will feature plated food instead.
I think it actually sold more than lottery tickets, but it would be funny if there were a store that only sold scratchers and Powerball. Taken on the way back from a burger-scouting mission at The Half King.