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Snows of 2010 and 2011

By hugh | Published: February 16, 2011

Just in time for 60° F. weather on Friday and probably the last melting of New York’s winter (fingers crossed), here’s a gallery of night snow images. None are particularly great but you get the idea. Obviously, the most dramatic are the first batch from post-Christmas blizzard. Despite some glitches, New York continued to function [...]

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Westchester Sunday Night

By hugh | Published: February 6, 2011

I still don’t know how my friend lived with the same four or five women for over ten years and didn’t lose his marbles completely. Go cheeseheads.

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Camping and Stuff, Summer 2010

By hugh | Published: November 7, 2010

Here’s a photo dump from last summer. A friend and I went up to North Adams, Massachusetts in the Berkshires for Bang on a Can’s Mass MOCA festival. Unfortunately, none of the performance shots came out and I didn’t take many other pictures while up there. For Labor Day, we decided to go camping again [...]

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Playing Games at Fat Cat

By hugh | Published: October 16, 2010

One of my favorite places in New York has to be Fat Cat. It’s a gigantic basement of games (pool, ping pong, scrabble, chess, shuffleboard) plus live jazz music all night long. A large percentage of the clientele is NYU students who don’t give a shit about the music but even so, the atmosphere is [...]

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Roof Lawn at Lincoln Center

By hugh | Published: September 19, 2010

I actually wrote a letter to Lincoln Center in the 1980s saying they should make it more of a hang-out and add more low-brow entertainment further advising them that it would pay off in the long run. Since then, they’ve expanded the whole “Out-of-doors” program and rebuilt the plaza to include this amazing roof lawn [...]

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Rocks Off Boat Cruise Photos

By hugh | Published: July 27, 2010

On July 20th 2010, I went on a Rocks Off boat cruise that cost only $10! What a deal! I took some pictures of the bands (Miniboone, The Naked Heroes, and the Mess Around) but they were all pretty blurry. I’ve seen all the bands before and they’re all great local acts from New York [...]

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Early Morning Central Park

By hugh | Published: July 14, 2010

I took a ton of pix but I’m an editor. When was the last time you saw Sheep’s Meadow with no one there?

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New York Summer Night Still Lifes

By hugh | Published: July 11, 2010

These photographs were taken over the course of a few night bike rides downtown, mostly along the Hudson River greenway.

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Books Love the Kids

By hugh | Published: July 1, 2010

In the words of Jim Anchower, I know it’s been a long time since I rapped at ya. I have many photos to sort out and things to think about — and whether I’ll write more than two sentences about these things. In the meantime, here’s a short series from Bushwick, Brooklyn. I took these [...]

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Circles of Central Park

By hugh | Published: June 12, 2010

Another shot of Columbus Circle at night. I had a gander around the new Frederick Douglas Circle on the north-west side of Central Park and it is the most austere of traffic circles around the park. It’s lots of large stone tile design and unwelcome benches with little vegetation although that might change. Let it [...]

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High Line at Night

By hugh | Published: June 5, 2010

I finally went to the completed High Line which I saw way before the renovation thanks to OHNY. It’s probably the most unique/odd renovated space in any urban environment. In this case, WFMU was broadcasting a live show. I’ll be back. My old cheap camera seems incapable of taking sharp night shots anymore–maybe because I [...]

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New Subway Hole

By hugh | Published: May 23, 2010

The subway station at 96th Street has been open for a while though it still has some rough spots. People change and cities change. If they don’t, we get tired of them. (Update: What I meant was, change is natural and expected. Static and decay are smelly.) (

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