Random Photos

One of the 9/11 Memorial pools
on the footprint of the destroyed
WTC towers (the Museum is visible
directly in the center rear of this photo)

I am still gearing up for the James Baldwin conference in Montpellier, France, and wrapping up edits on my next book, so until soon, posting here remains a challenge. 

Meanwhile, so much is happening in the wider world, and I have many events to blog.... 

Here are a few random photos from my daily circuits. Enjoy!

A ship on the Hudson River 

Only in New York: a shop selling only
high-end cosmetics and the Paris Review! 

Window displays 

Musician, in a violet mood,
on the High Line
(it's actually uncrowded!) 

Looking east, from the High Line

Rainy 14th Street

Two different loaves baked
in the same pot (cinnamon raisin
bread & walnut wheat) 

Laying a seeding carpet
in the St. Paul's Church cemetery 

On the street 

Black carpet opening

TV journalist, across the street
from the newly opened
 9/11 Memorial Museum site 

One WTC (the Freedom Tower)

Flowers in the names
of those lost in the 9/11 attacks

One of the 9/11 Memorial pools 

The 9/11 Museum

The WTC site, from the east 

Behind Asser Levy Pool,
on the east side of Manhattan

In Stuyvesant Cove Park, looking east to
Queens and Brooklyn

Long Island City, from Manhattan

Peter Cooper Village 

East Side Community Junior/Senior
High School, the first school I taught at,
back in the 1990s

One of those giant "scab"
rats, at a union boycott,
Manhattan 

Fresh lobster, 23rd Street

A dancer-performer, strolling
the streets, Manhattan