STREET PHOTOG: New York street photography: April 2006

Paleoconservatism: Peace and Prosperity

NEW YORK, April 29 -- Tens of thousands of people marched down Broadway.

Yankee Hegemony: A Power Trip

NEW YORK, April 29 -- To be "a shining city upon a hill," America ironically must and should turn away from Wilsonian idealism.

Dark Side Of The Moon

NEW YORK, April 23 -- ♪ My make-up may be flaking, but my smile still stays on. ♪ -- Queen, The Show Must Go On

In The "Construction Business"

Little Italy, New York

Infantile Mind

NEW YORK -- ♪ I'll sit around wishing you well, how I'm craving you, yeah. -- ♪ Godsmack, Moon Baby

Spring Day

LONGWOOD GARDENS, Pennsylvania -- ♪ Lay beside me under wicked sky, through black of day, dark of night. ♪ -- Metallica, The Unforgiven II

An Eye For Wisdom

NEW YORK, April 9 -- The Norse god Odin gave up an eye in exchange for wisdom.

♪ What if eye for an eye? ♪ -- Creed, Human Clay

Immigration: Red Man's Burden

LOWER MANHATTAN, April 8 -- In 1626, Peter Minuit paid the Indians a handful of trinklets for Manhattan Island. Or so the white man's account reads.

Daytime Moon

NEW YORK -- The sun and the moon follow courses computed; and the herbs and the trees both bow in adoration. -- The Koran, Sura 55

West Side Story (1/2)

NEW YORK -- Where's the beef?
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Note the title of the magazine article.

West Side Story (2/2)

NEW YORK -- Uptown girl meets downtown guy.

Father Figure

NEW YORK -- ♪ You smiled at me like Jesus to a child. ♪ -- George Michael

Too Sexy For Shirt

MIDTOWN MANHATTAN -- ♪ I'm too sexy for my shirt, too sexy for my shirt, so sexy it hurts. ♪ -- Right Said Fred

Legs (1/2)

NEW YORK -- ♪ All the love gone bad ~~turned my world to black,~~ tattooed all I see, ~~all that I am, all I’ll ever be~~.... ♪ -- Pearl Jam

Legs (2/2)

NEW YORK -- ♪ I know you’ll be a star in somebody else’s sky, ~~but why, why, why can’t it be, why can’t it be mine?~~ ♪ -- Pearl Jam

Californication: A Demographic Danger

♪ It’s Californication, it’s the edge of the world and all of Western civilization. ♪ -- Red Hot Chili Peppers

NEW YORK, April 1 -- In American Vertigo~~: French Gigolo~~, French author Bernard-Henri Lévy critiqued a supposed Balkanization of American society, only to see Paris and the French suburbs set ablaze by children of immigrants. A more astute observer is Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci, who understands the challenge of immigration to European identity and warns of a "Eurabia" in The Force of Reason.

Streetscape

MIDTOWN MANHATTAN -- ♪ I can't get no satisfaction. ♪ -- Rolling Stones

Indiana Jones

New York

Street Portrait

New York

Horsey Roundup

NEW YORK -- ♪ I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride. ♪ -- Bon Jovi

Street Portrait

New York

Beowulf

New York

Street Portraits

New York

Street Portraits

New York

Street Portraits

New York

Streetscape

New York

Street Portraits

New York

Smile

New York

Smiles

New York

Pet

New York

Mother's Touch

New York

Street Portrait

New York

Street Portraits

New York

Streetscape

New York

Laugh

New York

Three's Company

New York

Behind Her Back

THE EXCHANGE PLACE, Jersey City, April 18 -- Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door. -- Emma Lazarus

Broken Border

♪ We're one, but we're not the same. ♪ -- U2, One

THE EXCHANGE PLACE, Jersey City, April 18 -- Whites are now the minority in California, New Mexico, and Texas.

Demographic Shift

New York

Street Portraits

New York

Iron Man

NEW YORK -- ♪ He was turned to steel in the great magnetic field. ♪ -- Black Sabbath

Spring Revelation

Newark, April 11

Winter Mementos

Newark, April 11

Street Portraits: In Sync II

New York

Street Portraits: In Sync

New York

Readers' Digest

New York

The Hudson

Jersey City

Easter Observation: Nietzsche Is Dead. Joshua, Too.

♪ So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, blue skies from pain. ♪ -- Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here

SAINT PAUL'S CHAPEL, Lower Manhattan, April 23 -- President George Washington attended services at the chapel when New York City was the country's capital (1788 to 1790).
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Source: St. Paul's Chapel

In Profile

New York

In Profile

New York

In Profile

New York

In Profile

New York

Spring Reflection: Cherry Trees In Bloom

Newark, April 14

Lakeside Reflection: Nosce Te Ipsum

Newark, April 12

Lakeside Reflection: Memento Mori

Newark, April 12

Lakeside Reflection: Carpe Diem

Newark, April 14

Spring Fashion

New York

Black Beret

New York

Spring Suit

New York

Demiurge's Design: Snow in April

NEWARK, April 5 -- ♪ Weather changes moods, Spring is here again. ♪ -- Nirvana, In Bloom

April Snow

Newark, April 5

Cherry Blossoms

Newark, April 5

Ice Covereth

Newark, April 5

Snowy Lake

Newark, April 5

Spring Thaw

Newark, April 5

Spring's Promise

Newark, April 5

April Showers Bring Monet Moments

NEW YORK, April 1 -- ♪ Hazing clouds rain on my head, empty thoughts fill my ears. ♪ -- Godsmack

Street Portraits

New York

Intake

New York

Exhaust

New York

In Sheep's Clothing

New York

Nemo's Odyssey

New York

Namaste: Saluting Dignity

NEW YORK -- Unlike a few other immigrant groups, Indians are honorable folks. They don't form gangs, cry discrimination, or demand entitlement.

Street Portrait

New York

Street Portrait

New York

Street Portrait

NEW YORK -- ♪ I’m not afraid of fading. I stand alone. ♪ -- Godsmack, Faceless

News Flash

NEW YORK -- What the Daily News, New York Post, and New York Times are good for.

Seafaring Dream

NEW YORK -- ♪ Sail away, sail away, sail away. From the north to the south, Ebudae into Khartoum, from the deep sea of clouds to the island of the moon. ♪ -- Enya, Orinoco Flow

Tug of War: Within and Without

NEW YORK -- ♪ And anytime you feel the pain, hey Jude, refrain, don’t carry the world upon your shoulders. For well you know that it’s a fool who plays it cool by making his world a little colder. ♪ -- The Beatles

Where Planets Align

HAYDEN PLANETARIUM, New York -- ♪ We sail through endless skies. Stars shine like eyes, the black night sighs. The Moon in silver dreams falls down in beams, light of the night. The Earth, a purple blaze of sapphire haze in orbit always. While down below, the trees bathed in cool breeze. Silver starlight breaks down the night. And so we pass on by the crimson eye of great god Mars as we travel the universe. ♪ -- Black Sabbath, Planet Caravan