SPINADELIC

Your cab seems perfect - until you spot the Checker Cab holdover behind you. New York should subsidize Checker cabs.

This was where I went when I lived in the Village, and where I went when I lived elsewhere. No place quite like it. Kitsch ruled, fun abounded, neighborhood sprung from this Tex-Mex watering hole.

Have you noticed how a lot of shops will put t-shirts that spell "SALE" on mannequins? Well I have.

New Jersey Diners are a thing to behold. See how many you can go to. See how many of them have sweet potato pancakes....

Love wandering upon this classic building somewhere in Midtown Manhattan.

He has a fancy wig. He's wearing upper-class threads. But he cannot shake the pigeons.

I mean you get to see a lotta stuff. But the pigeons,...

The only ticker-tape parade I have ever seen, thrown for South African leader Nelson Mandela.

Busking on a crisp winter day.

Walking downtown during that sliver of time when the sun cuts through the buildings and highlights pedestrians.

An ear worm, a memorable lick, an out of context audio nugget.

You don't have to like the song but it's OK if you do.

Classic 80s t-shirt from Greenwich Village joint.

Descend the creaky steps. Sit in the lap of the drummer.

Don't duck responsibility. You should probably do something about this fact.

The classic shoe design that will never go away.

You know what time it is when you notice the Flatiron Building.

Love sitting in the outfield of Yankee Stadium and also love getting there by subway.

Just after a summer rain and everything seems that much brighter and cleaner.

A dividing line in downtown Manhattan.

Roofscape.

I love the three-pronged arrow graphic.

(Makes it sound like some kind of wholesale outfit?)

Not everybody can.

Thick bunch of taxis headed toward the terminal.

This is the full painting.

From the frieze on the exchange.

Standing guard.

A beautiful art deco building down in the Financial District.

"The last 12 seconds off a song he heard getting out of a TAXI in 1987...."

This sign must have hung above the Vanguard for decades and decades. The rust had such character.

This is an architectural detail down on maybe Lower Broadway?

This was modeled on a guy from Rivoli Pizza down in Greenwich Village.

From a public building in downtown Manhattan.

Summertime icon.

Casting a strong look.