…and the sparrows are out?!
this is how it looked from 125th street station yesterday morning, as the snow was just starting–giant, wet, plops of snow:
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26 January 2010
how cool is this: a plexiglass court set up in grand central terminal for a professional squash tournament (“Tournament of Champions“). seats are ticketed, but you can also watch for free (if you don’t mind standing) from the front of the court…
you might wonder how the players keep from being distracted by seeing the spectators–this is tempered by a gauze-like covering on the glass, though they’ve left some areas clear for the official photographers.
Final round is on Thursday! 8 January 2010
I missed the big dump from a couple of weeks back since I jetted off to Taiwan–so today I had my first snow steps of the year…
1 December 2009
For foodies, it’s no secret that Queens is the home of New York’s best cuisine–and for Chinese and Korean it’s in Flushing, an easy (if long) ride on the 7 line all the way to Main Street. Here are a few photos of this vibrant neighbourhood:
Vendor scooping out seeds at a tea & herb shop:
Street counter food:
Massage, anyone? Only $20-30 per hour…
HK-style BBQ, and a cook just finishing his smoke break:
groceries…
the entrance to my favourite food court (love the Xi-An place in this “Golden Mall”):
and the street food counter under the train bridge:
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