Trip to New York city for the Wavy Awards on , and explored Brooklyn and Manhattan with Cecylia Bocovich.
Neat sculptures on the ceiling at LaGuardia Airport.Pretty nice view from Astoria Blvd station of the Triborough Bridge around sundown.View from Queensboro Plaza station.Arrival in Williamsburg.Cozy+compact hotel room.Our Lady of Consolation church with stained glass of Maximilian Kolbe. „Módl się za nami.”Memorial to the Katyń massacre and the Smolensk air crash.Cranes at Domino Park and Grand Ferry Park.View across the East River from Grand Ferry Park.Slice of pizza.Bagel breakfast the next morning, again at Grand Ferry Park.This put the ferry in Grand Ferry.This put the pigeons in the park.Williamsburg Bridge and the financial district.Mosaic stone, reminiscent of Toynbee tiles.Smokestack or something in the park.From Domino Park.Tried and failed to toss a Canadian nickel onto this post, completely whiffed it, costing me a penalty wish from my lifetime allotment of wishes.The nickel in question, moments before its consignment to the watery depths.Volumetric caustics.The Statue of Liberty from under the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges.The invasive spotted lanternfly, looking like a cute moth. I had never seen one before, but there were plenty.Doorway to Heaven.Skyline with "Old Crow" graffiti.Wake at the back of the ferry. Riding the ferry was one of my goals in New York.Ferry passengers.The fellow ferry "Spring Mallard".Ferry selfie.Windy on the ferry!Tetris buildings.East 34th Street ferry stop.Interesting asymmetric tiling at a park nearby.Re-boarding the ferry to continue upriver.The ferries had creative names like "Happy Hauler" and "Cement Transporter 1802".And "City Fishy".Before I knew what a lanternfly was, I would have guess it was this fiery insect found on a milkweed pod.Hot dog in Central Park, beneath an oak raining acorns by the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir.Dog playing fetch.Extensive tennis courts, all being used too.Making a sunprint in Central Park.The resulting sunprint.Down to the Lower East Side for the Wavys red carpet gathering.In line to enter.In the audience before the show.Fan from the New York City Gay Men's Chorus, members of which were backup for the performance by Jo Lee.Lovely mosaics in subway stations.Went to Polish mass at Our Lady of Consolation. First reading, Is. 50:5–9.Reproduction of the Black Madonna of Częstochowa. It was quite a Polish church.A single boiled egg, breakfast of champions. Also known as 2 centi-Newmans.Rebecca's custom Wavys nails.Posing with part of a show costume.The Statue of Liberty from the Battery.Joie de Vivre sculpture at Zuccotti Park.Helvetica signage.Emerging from the subway at Prospect Park.Asymmetric leaves.A heck of a big park.Polish in the subway. Wahadłowo = "pendularly".Experimenting with some long-exposure shots from Grand Ferry Park.This one is great.Russian signage at the Metropolitan Pool.169 = 132.Love!DIY grocery store breakfast.NFT house?!?"Copyright 1968"? Determined or not, that Bart must be long dead.Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Our Lord.The Green Dome."I'd rather be playing Super Smash Bros.""My other ride is… the absurd rodeo of moden existence!""Tamagotchi on board." Every sticker on this car was a good one.Painting an ad or mural.Washington Square Park and Washington Square Arch.Walking north from the park toward midtown.Greeley Square, named after Horace Greeley as you might expect.Approaching Times Square.Had dinner at Joe's Pizza.The sign that displays the current year.Columbus Circle.Theater in Williamsburg where we saw Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.Paradise Lost iv.187–198. "So clomb this first grand thief into God's fold".Nice wall tiles.Floppy disk.Mural of a winged hussar.Marsha P. Johnson State Park. "Pay it no mind."Marsha P. Johnson, Gay and trans liberation activist (1945–1992).Chimney swift tower.Word search at the hotel starting with the word "Noita".Wheatpaste confessions under the bridge.Mario question mark block.View from McCarren Park, along Lorimer Street.Pidgey pidgey pidgey.Pop quiz at the check-in kiosk, attempting to trip up those who violate the stringent baggage restrictions of the ultra-economy fare.I messed up this sudoku on the flight in, but had my revenge on the return flight.But I still made a mistake somewhere on the "Hard" puzzle. Notice there's nowhere for a 5 in box 1. I eventually solved the puzzle later that month.
