Or, a vision in a dream. A Fragment.
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, … Read More
an extra $3 to wash and blow-dry. and an extra $1 for… womanhair?
miss NYC and the USO: military past… …and present: and some guns
As New Yorkers voted for the richest man in the city for mayor, I spent the morning of November 3rd doing exit poll surveys for AALDEF. My shift started at 6 AM in District 20 of Flushing, Queens–which meant catching the subway at 4:30 from where I live. Flushing is one of the most diverse communities in New York, which … Read More
Walking near Columbia, I once met an older Chinese man trying to talk to some black dude in Chinese, both clearly frustrated since the latter had no idea what he was saying. I was dragged into the conversation and though I could not help the man with his problem, I walked with him back to the university. He told me … Read More
I thought it was funny that someone added a chinese pamphlet to this ad for the new Trauma tv series. It says: Good News (好消息)–as in the religious kind. nice parallelism between the chinese dude shouting “good news” and the med-evac guy calling for help in the middle of what appears to be a fireball.
I heard there was a ‘little sri lanka’ on staten island, so I booted over there and had lunch at SanRasa restaurant, not too far from the ferry terminal, on Bay street. The food was worth the two-hour trek (due to weekend subway rerouting, grr) to get there. We started with some yummy fried lentil patties (masala wale) accompanied by … Read More
I was in chinatown when I suddenly remembered I’d been craving congee–and how convenient, there was a place across the street from where I was standing called: Congee (well, congee city in chinese: 粥城). and though it didn’t look like the most elegant juk I’ve ever had, it tasted good! I had the fish and thousand-year-old egg congee (魚片皮蛋粥, “yu … Read More
I remember the first time I biked past here (I was going south on Broadway), how this building just stunned me. Alice Tully hall–one of the main concert halls of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts–just re-opened this year, while the rest of the Center is still undergoing its facelift after 50 years in the city. You can read … Read More
I recently took a continuing legal education course at the hotel pennsylvania, and noticed this greenhouse gas billboard next to madison square garden. you can read about this ‘carbon counter’ (installed by Deutsche Bank) here.