Homeless on Fifth Avenue: So Close, Yet So Far

A good night's sleep just a window pane away...

 

Chinese Antique Store

There's an antique store on Mulberry Street in Manhattan's Chinatown that's filled with beautiful statues, sculptures, vases and scroll paintings, some of which might pass for museum quality if glimpsed quickly as you walk down the store aisles.

Souvenir Store on W. 33 St.

Not too long ago, I used to pass a souvenir shop aimed at tourists on the corner of 33rd Street and Seventh Avenue. I took pictures of the windows because it had the most unusual juxtapositions of objects. There would be statues with ancient Egyptian motifs next to typical "I Love New York" merchandise.

Midway in the Bronx

On a scruffy patch of land in Bronx Park, between Bronx Park East and the Bronx River Parkway (just east of the Bronx Zoo), a traveling amusement park known as Tommy's Midway gets set up every year to provide rides to kids in the Pelham Parkway section of the Bronx. On August 19, 2013, I happened to come across this collection of rides as it sat awaiting opening hours. It was late afternoon and I don't know why it wasn't open yet, but I took the opportunity to walk around the empty rides and take pictures.