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We hope that you take some time to get on out and enjoy the tranquility of some nice weather today.

This is a shot of the Verrazano Bridge at sunset from a week or so ago.

Winter, we’re sick of your cold, freeze, signs to ‘raise plow’ and all of your giant steam stacks dotting the city.

See you in nine months, buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuud-dy.

It feels good to have temperatures warm enough to the point where the croci are spread wide open during the day.

TOTAL COOLNESS!!!

We don’t quite understand the idea behind the new advertising campaign that New York State is currently doing for the Mega Millions and Powerball jackpots.

While we find it a bit redundant to advertise the lottery since millions of people actively continue to play it, they’re also taking public property and putting price tickets on them as if they are for sale.  We guess it is insinutating that if you win one of the jackpots you will have enough money to buy these items of public property.

That said, the Mega Millions jackpot starts out at $12-million.  Figure about half of that will go straight to taxes which leaves the winner with $6-million. 

Do they really think that the big old Statue of Liberty could go for a mere $6-million dollars on the open market?

At low tide we spotted a rather larger looking man over the seawall, past the protective boulders and down in the sand of Bath Beach right about where the British forces and Hessian troops walked onto Long Island for the Battle of Long Island in 1776 during the Revolutionary War. 

Our first thought, metal detector looking for a find; but without a metal detector in sight we cannot help but think, seashell collector?

We then spotted another large man nearby who was digging around in the boulders looking for something.

Ummm, yeah.  Dead bodies, drugs, bars of gold, sand, seashells, workout equipment, tanning salon, whatever it was that they were up to just didn’t look right. 

They were just a couple of nice professional seashell collectors.  Nothing more than kind hearted business men, family men, right?

While checking out the Brooklyn Parrots we noticed that there was a pair of Nike soccer cleats hanging high up in the branch of a tree.

The mere sight of them had us unwittingly create a modern day ancient proverb that Fiancee duly noted as sounding like an ancient proverb:

The cleats will hurt when the shoestrings snap…

Walking into a public bathroom at a park in New York City is always a new and different experience.  In fact, it’s probably best to always walk into one with the assumption that something weird or dangerous is going on inside so that you don’t end up falling victim to something.

That said, we were totally thrown off guard when we walked into the men’s room at the Bay 8th Street park in Bath Beach.

Yes, yes it is a SPOTLESS stainless steel set up that appears to be scrubbed down on a daily basis with Brillo. 

It has no privacy once inside due to no doors or walls around the toilet which makes the fact that the outside door remains propped open all the more chilly and raises the question:  Is it indecent exposure to be bottomless while on the toilet when the only door around is wedged wide open?

Also, this mystery soap had us scratching our head.

What happened to the soap dispenser that is clearly on top of the sink?  Why isn’t that good enough to be used?  Did they lose they key?  Also, who in their right mind would use a pink liquid that is inside of an old Poland Spring water bottle that is labeled ’soap’ in a public bathroom that is in the middle of a park?

The cost of not picking up after your dog on the streets of New York City near a legible sign and are caught by the imaginary Sanitation Department dog poop patrol: $100 

The cost of not picking up after your dog if caught near this semi legitimate looking sign by the imaginary Sanitation Department dog poop patrol: $450 and your balls will be cut off.

The cost of not picking up after your dog if caught near this faded looking sign by the imaginary Sanitation Department dog poop patrol: $100

The cost of not picking up after your dog if caught near this quasi legitimate looking sign by the not so imaginary Parks Department dog poop patrol: $1,000

The cost of not picking up after your dog if caught near this very much not legitimate whatsoever looking sign by the imaginary Polite Police’s poop patrol: A stern reprimanding.

The cost of not picking up after yourself if you’re caught near this legitimate looking sign by the imaginary Sanitation Department human poop patrol: $20,000

The cost of not picking up after yourself if you wipe yourself with a black leather glove: Priceless 

Seriously, don’t click on that link if you just ate, are eating, are about to eat, blind easily or are weak of heart.

Our 2010 Census finally arrived today!

Be sure to fill yours out and return ‘today’ or else you shall feel that wrath of the ‘law.’  

And remember, in 74 years all of the returned information will be made public to your descendants for them to enjoy and help them out with your family history, so make sure you write them a little note in the margins and wish them a happy 2084!

We’re oddly intrigued by stencilled graffiti.

And in this case, where President Obama’s face got way too much orange, we cannot help but wonder just how annoyed the artist was by seeing the final product like that.

For years we’ve seen this former nursing home located at 2300 Cropsey Avenue in Bath Beach, Brooklyn, crumble and slowly become etched with graffiti.  Since it has the appearance of being a building that was to be demolished we checked out the NYC Department of Buildings record on it and found that it currently has 38 active violations and two active complaints against it.

Our favorite violation was this one that reveals that both the top floor and the fire service piping had been removed without a permit.  It read:

“WORK W/O PERMIT: WORK NOTED,EXISTING STAND PIPE REMOVED SECTION OF PIPING FROM MAIN VALUE FROM FIRE SERVICE PIPING TO STAND PIPE RISER. ALSO FOUND TOP FLR WAS REMOVED & CUT AWAY. ALSO ALL OF THE HOSE VALVES WER”

This building is a perfect example of how the Department of Buildings is an absolute joke in the City of New York. 

Some of the violations have been overdue and have not been in compliance for over 17 years; while there are numerous other active and open violations that date back nearly a decade!

Further evidence of just how big of a joke the NYC Department of Building: the fact that there are currently $69,600 worth of outstanding penalties that date back years without payment.

The DOB appears to be powerless with regard to having the ability to enforce anything and the owners appear to think that DOB summons as well as other official notes need to fade out in the sun — either that or they just can’t be bothered anymore with the mere thought of this place.

They’re stuffed all over!  We counted over half a dozen Department of Buildings summonses fading away into obscurity. 

If you’d like to see photos of the inside of this abandoned building and what the roof looks like, check out LTVsquad’s shots.

If you woke up this morning with your loved one thinking it best that you not go into work today and instead just stay home, it was probably best to have listened to them.

[Image via Wiki]

You don’t want to end up like Julius Caesar, going to work only to be stabbed to death.