Tribeca, West Broadway at Beach Street

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Well, I don't think Bill matched Hillary, but he did all right enough, and then Joe Biden gave his speech and was just wonderful. Don't you love him? Well, not if you're Republican, I guess. Although even if you're Republican, you might have a little secret fondness for him. Yes?

This is Tribeca Park, so called since 1985 to acknowledge the neighborhood's new name (TRIangle Below CAnal), coined by real estate agents in the 70's, but soon adopted by all. Before that, it was called Beach Street Park, a perfectly fine name.

It was a perfect summer day, low 80's, dry, breezy. Bill and I kept congratulating ourselves on our good luck.

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Tribeca, West Broadway at Lispenard Street

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How about that Hillary? Damn. What a pro. Now let's see if Bill, that sonofabitch, can match her. If he does, I'll be saying how about that Bill? Oh, it's a good year to be a Democrat. This is history, folks.

I was going to talk about this restaurant Pepolino and how Luka and I used to go there when she was a smoker because upstairs you could smoke, but now I haven't been there in years, and I'm thinking maybe we should try it again; it's awfully appealing on the outside and so on, maybe a little musing on the passing of time, but all of this seems so trivial given that the fate of our country lies in the balance.

Go Barack!

Just two more nights of this and then I'll return to my normal dry unemotional commentator self.

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SoHo, West Broadway Between Prince and Houston Streets

Let me apologize on behalf of Verizon, my incompetent DSL provider. I have been out of service since Thursday night because there was a big problem and they were reconnecting people one at a time. Obviously, I wasn't high on their list. That's Verizon. V-E-R-I-Z-O-N.



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I'm going to have to catch up again, leave out some shots, but I did want to show you this one before we leave SoHo.

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SoHo, West Broadway Between Prince and Houston Streets

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This is the sight that caused us to haul our cameras out. Not just the sculpture based on the famous 1932 photo, but the crazy pink wall they're facing. For more information about the sculpture and sculptor go here.

You say you want to see the front? Okay, here's a partial view.

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SoHo, West Broadway at Prince Street

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A week ago Saturday, May 26, FL and I went to Pearl Paint on Canal Street and then we walked up through SoHo and had dinner at the Cupping Room Café which was lovely and uncrowded because this was Memorial Day weekend and half the city was somewhere else, bless their travelin' hearts. And then we strolled up West Broadway, thinking about an iced cappuccino. It was a summery evening, my favorite kind of evening, with the delicious feeling of breezes on my skin and feeling warm and cool at the same time.

We had our cameras with us because I'd asked her to photograph me reading in the subway, but we weren't shooting in the streets, just strolling. We got to the block between Prince and Houston, looked at each other and took our cameras out. You'll see why tomorrow night. Tonight this is one of the shots I took first to establish where we were. Not that this one does. You have to be able to read the street signs.

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