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February 22, 2011
Photo-a-Day, Sundry

City Hall Station

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A 6 train pulls through the loop at the abandoned City Hall subway station.

Back in May I joined a New York Transit Museum tour of the abandoned City Hall station. This was the original Southern terminus of the Lexington Ave line, built on the loop underneath City Hall where trains would turn around and head back North. It was abandoned before long for several reasons, including the proximity of the Express station built at nearby Chambers St when the system was expanded, and also because when the trains moved to having middle doors, the gap on the curved platform became all the more dangerous. Lastly, it is impossible to lengthen this curving station to accommodate the longer trains run on the contemporary New York subway.

There was a plan to move the New York Transit Museum here, but folks became skittish of opening a subway museum beneath City Hall after 9/11.

You can get a quick glimpse of the station by hopping on a southbound Lexington local train at Chambers St. Our tour began at Chambers St, where we boarded the front car of a train ready to enter the loop and were dropped off by MTA staff at the station to take pictures. It was a bit dark for my camera, it is more compelling as a legend than it is in person.

Update: A very similar photo take in 1903.

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February 21, 2011
Photo-a-Day, Sundry

Adorable Panhandler

Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/02/21/adorable-panhandler/

We all gotta eat!

New York City is full of hustlers. Some prey on tourists. Here, a tree-dwelling Manhattanite offers two backpacker girls some novel photographs and an adorable memory, in exchange for cookies. Of course, a shrewd Brooklynite like myself is not above taking quick advantage of the situation for his own cute photograph, but then the squirrels and I have an understanding.

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February 20, 2011
Photo-a-Day

Brooklyn Tabby

Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/02/20/maxwell-will-eff-you-up/

Back in Brooklyn, Maxwell was ready to brawl. He has mellowed some in California.

A color-enhanced Maxwell from May, done in the style of the earlier photo of Maggie.

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February 19, 2011
Free Style, Photo-a-Day

Brick Giants

Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/02/19/brick-giants/

Stuyvesant Town, as viewed from the Brooklyn Bridge.

A photo I took from the Brooklyn Bridge last May. I cropped in on these buildings, did a color enhance and then “sharpen” to help bring out the feeling of the masonry.

Thanks, Jenny, for identifying these buildings as belonging to Stuyvesant Town—Peter Cooper Village.

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February 18, 2011
Photo-a-Day

Climate Best by Government Test

Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/02/18/climate-best-by-government-test/

Climate Best by Government Test

I have always been pleased by the delicious absurdity that some dull San Mateo suburb saw fit to immortalize a government report saying that, if nothing else, the weather in Redwood City is close to perfect.

I shot this out the window of Caltrain on a rainy day.

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February 17, 2011
Photo-a-Day

Facebook Cookbook

Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/02/17/facebook-cookbook/

Books of dubious value.

Technical professionals have long known to go for “the animal books” from O’Reilly Publishing.

At first I’m like “why do we need a book for Face . . . ooooohhhhh right, Apps!” I like that blogging is a bunch of cute-looking wild cats stumbling over each other, and somebody wrote a book on Skype because hey these things are better in threes, right?

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February 16, 2011
Photo-a-Day

Pink

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A tree blossoms at the light rail station.

This photo was taken on a beautiful day earlier this week. It has since begun raining again.

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February 15, 2011
Photo-a-Day, Relationship Advice, Sundry

Valentine Pie

Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/02/15/valentine-pie/

For Valentine's Day, Mei baked me an apple pie.

I made pork chops, Mei baked an apple pie. A nice pairing.

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February 14, 2011
Photo-a-Day

Mandala

Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/02/14/mandala/

A large mandala in the sand at Ocean Beach in San Francisco.

Castles made of sand.

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February 13, 2011
Photo-a-Day

San Francisco Fire Truck

Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/02/13/sf-fire-truck/

Some firefighters look over their truck on a sunny Saturday.

We had some errands to run in the city this weekend. I also spent a little time hunting the 38-Geary buses to photograph their destination signs.

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February 12, 2011
About Me, Photo-a-Day

Maggie

Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/02/12/maggie/

My Alarm Clock

Maggie runs the house. She declares when it is breakfast time, time to go outside, and time to eat dinner.

I named her Maggie for the Simpsons character who is small and doesn’t speak. Usually she has an adorable silent meow. But when she is excited to receive her meal, she does an impressive monkey imitation.

I did another of her feline companion, Maxwell.

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February 11, 2011
Photo-a-Day

38 GEARY

Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/02/11/38-geary/

A 38 Geary Muni bus, bound for 48th Ave

This evening Mei and I ran up to San Francisco to dine with her sister at a French restaurant on Geary. While waiting for dessert I took a peek at my e-mail and there was a message from an acquaintance who is a transit consultant in Australia, who wanted to double-check a claim he was making about the destination sign for the 38 Geary bus.

As we waited to pay the bill, I borrowed Mei’s camera and stepped out to the street, and there was a Geary bus! But I was too slow on the draw. Alas, the transit consultant was thinking about one of Muni’s most frequent lines, and another bus was right behind.

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