Ming Hui is a visiting poetry scholar from Beijing. He has been in New York City for almost a year translating Allen Ginsberg poetry into Mandarin, and he is obsessed with the 1984 film Once Upon A Time In America, so much so, that he has put together a series of images comparing scenes from the film, with the locations as they are now.
My uncle Jim repaired things underwater for the Army when he was overseas during World War Two. When he returned to his native Bronx, the engineer set about to straighten the Bronx River. The waterway weaved a meandering path from Westchester to the East River near Hunts Point in the South Bronx. If it weren't for the zig zagging and the flooding, the river was a perfect route for a modern parkway to be built along side of it. Enter uncle Jim and a team of backhoes and steam shovels to fill in the river's banks and make it go straight. Today most of us don't even know there is actually a river next to the Bronx River Parkway, but now old people can get to the slots at Empire City Casino in Yonkers pretty damn fast.
The first Sunday in November is one of my favorite days of the year to be home. I live on a main street through Greenpoint, Brooklyn just South of the of the marathon's halfway mark, where every year people run, trot, walk, crank, skip, hobble, push and/or pull themselves up Manhattan Ave past my front door.
Best costume at New Museum's Halloween Party.
I am Banksy. (SOHO, NYC)
Fire Bird: Gay Propaganda
Lego Love
