If you’ve ever thought about not repenting, perhaps this awesome chalk drawing of a mean looking cat that we found in lower Manhattan will get you to finally repent!
ROAR!!!
New York’s Modern Day Stratagem
We get a kick out of seeing empty NYPD RMPs parked along the side of prominent streets and on vital bridges. It gives the false sense of safety. There aren’t officers around it, it’s merely an empty vehicle, parked to give the illusion of a larger police presence on the streets than there actually is. The Allies used a similar technique during the Invasion of Normady in World War II, when they dropped lifeless dummies alongside the real life paratroopers to give the sense of a larger invasion. It proved to be a wonderful scare tactic.
But whenever we see an empty cruiser like the one in this photo, we think of this tagline, “Empty NYPD cruisers, keeping our city safe since 2001.”
Freedom Tower May 2012
We swung past the World Trade Center yesterday to snap some photos for the site. While there, we noticed that our perception of the Freedom Tower (a.k.a. 1 WTC) has changed from last month. The building now looks enormous as it reaches up and touches the sky.
If you’d like to see what the Freedom Tower/1 WTC looked like in previous months, click here for January 2012, click here for February 2012, click here for March 2012, click here for April 2012, and click here for an assortment of pics over the past year and half or so.
The Fraternal Twin Towers
This shot of the World Trade Center from Brooklyn makes it look as though Manhattan has a new set of Twin Towers — fraternal twins! (1WTC and the Frank Gehry fugly building.)
It’s a trick of the angle of course, but check out how close it looks to this photo we found on Flickr from October 1972 when the real Twin Towers were still under construction.
Empire State Yoga
The view of the Empire State Building through the yoga statue in Brooklyn Bridge Park.
Happy Monday!