A weekend vacation

I'm very lucky this weekend to be getting off this stupid rock. I'll be going to a lake house near Ithaca, New York. This seems like it's going to be a good 3 day weekend trip out to the country. Instead of sweating in some subway tunnel, I'm going to be drinking beer with my feet in cold water. Check out this really cool google map of where I'm going:

http://www.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=hector,+new+york&ie=UTF8&t=k&om=1&ll=42.50058,-76.872711&spn=2.859221,4.306641

That's a little lesson in geology right there.

A walk to Union Square

I saw this old firehouse as I went on a walk after work. New York built a whole bunch of these old brick Ghostbusters things in the early 1900s, mostly as a way to steal and graft. Kinda like the Port Authority. Ever seen City Hall? This city has been in bed with developers for a long time. Here they are over on the right. I always think about how hard it would be to drive a fire
truck in New York City. Jeez!

The other cool thing I saw today is a really cool fresh fruit and veg farmers market in Union Square. I don't know how long it's been here, since I haven't been to Union Square in a while. But it looks like there is all sorts of stuff going on at this time of year. Ever since I saw "Kids", I always expect to see cute skater girls rolling blunts in Union Square. I should take some photos of people hanging out in Union Square. I think this site is going to be pretty heavy on mobile phone photos, since it's always in my pocket, but I'll try to upload some real pictures.

Manhattan from the Staten Island Ferry. The Ferry is one of the things I always do when someone from out of town comes to visit. It's free, you get to see the Statue of Liberty, and you can get popcorn and beer!

My First Blog Post

Im always finding myself at these neat little out of the way places, and I know that there have got to be other people that are interested in meat on a stick and really old buildings, which are two of my favorite things about the city. So I thought that it was high time for me to join the blogosphere! Now, I always avoided these before because I feel like they always turn into these rambling online diaries, so I'm going to try to keep this informational.

So here's a little background. I'm 25 years old, I've been living in the city for I guess a year and a half, and I work in the film industry. I'm also an amateur photographer, so the other part of this blog will be random postings of my photos.

My inspiration for this site is Forgotten New York, which is a wonderful collection of history, another subject I love to explore. This site is amazing, and you should check it out:

http://www.forgotten-ny.com/