Photo Gallery: Sidestreet/Neighborhood Scenes
| We're looking west, but the direction isn't the story here. You wouldn't believe how much money was spent reconstructing this idiotic street a few years ago! I can't even state the figure. It would be tantamount to publishing pornography! These wildly looping poles, that caned 14th Street's rebuilding budget no less than their tiny little rattan cousins have caned British schoolchildren, have got to be the most hideous and stupid looking of all lampposts ever planted anywhere, anytime in earth history. Virtually the entire east-west length of 14th Avenue, unfortunately the longest of all Manhattan's east-west crossings, is adorned with these forest green painted insanities. Part of me is annoyed that I underexposed this shot in the waning springtime daylight, but another part of me is relieved that I couldn't display these things in better detail. For one thing, THEY HAVE NO DETAIL! They are what they are, though nobody in NYC is quite sure what they were meant to be. They were originally wired up wrong and every one of them, for blocks and blocks, kept blowing out their lamps before the problem was solved. |