East Side Serious

More seriousness on the East Side. A grim look is common in NYC especially when you are on the way to the tanning salon.

East Village Cheese

If you are in desperate need of some cheese then East Village Cheese is the place to go.

Pizza Delivery

Pizza delivery vehicle on 3rd Avenue. It might get there just a little bit on the cold side, but it gets there.

Vintage Thrift

Window display from Vintage Thrift, a vintage shop on 3rd Avenue near 22nd Street.

Ghost Dog

I really don't understand dogs. Or the people who own them. But whatever floats their boat. It seems exceptionally weird to me that you would just leave your dog unattended tied up to a post outside in a city like New York.

Grace Kelly Lived Here

The Manhattan House on 66th and 3rd has as long a history as any apartment building in the city, but is perhaps best known now for being a place where Princess Grace lived in the 1950s.

In 1997, The New York Times described her apartment: But by some accounts, despite her increasingly glamorous life, Grace Kelly’s furnishings at Manhattan House were, alas, quite plain. “The living room was without charm, character or gender,” Ms. Quine wrote. “It wasn’t ugly; it was utterly bland. Furniture, fabrics and colors alike were all resolutely practical. Everything seemed brown.”

I guess it just goes to show you that with some princesses things aren't always what they seem no matter how spoiled they might be.

Village Scandal

Things are usually open late in the East Village. Here's a hat shop just after 11pm on Saturday night on 7th Street right near McSorley's.

Starbucks Explosion

Am I missing something? I'm really no expert in this sort of thing, but it doesn't seem too hard to figure this one out. Where can I pick up the reward?

Fairly Tired

After a very long day at the street fair, just about any random place will do for a quick mid-block nap even if it's in the middle of the street.

I'm really liking the new Kasabian album, "West Rider Pauper Lunatic Asylum." You can listen to the whole thing at their MySpace page. It comes out on Tuesday. You should listen to it now.

Tangled Traffic Balloons

Don't you hate it when this happens?

A mess of white, blue and pink balloons on 3rd Avenue on Sunday afternoon.

Dare To Bare

There are always things happening in the Big Apple so it's no surprise to see something as unusual as a news crew interviewing someone through the window of the Bath & Body Works store on Lexington Avenue and 72nd Street.

I'm really not sure who this mystery celebrity is that they are interviewing or what's particularly newsworthy at a store like this, but she's wearing a nice pair of red heels.

This picture was taken moments before some nasty PR woman with a clipboard came over and shooed me away from the window. Now that I think about it, that's kind of stupid because here I am posting the picture and a link to their lame event which is way more press than they deserve for celebrated Allure columnist and top dermatologist Dr. Patricia Wexler's Dare to Bare Your Skin event. But of course now I know all of you are going to run out to Bath & Body Works and buy some Valentine's Day gifts for me or some skincare products or a candle or something. I could use some new shampoo.

UPDATE: Is this Paula Abdul? Can anyone confirm that? How about someone buy me some new shampoo? I started getting traffic from all over the world (again!) so for all you Paula Abdul and American Idol fans let me know if this is her. I was only able to take two pictures so here's the other one which is nearly identical.

Paula Abdul or no Paula Abdul, the clipboard toting gal from the PR company was still nasty to swat me away from the window outside the store. This gives their event tons of web traffic. Funny thing is, I didn't even know who it was and was just taking what I thought was a semi-cool shot. I didn't even have a chance to get a good photo. Next time these black-clad clipboard vixens ought to be a bit more friendly and the PR company for the event should hire a blogger to leak the photo to the web. It is an effective way to reach a ton of people worldwide and sell some of Dr. Wexler's stuff. No telling how many freaking people clicked on the B&BW links I provided today. Well, I could tell you, but you'd have to pay for that information. Geez.

Third Avenue - 4:45PM

I see these all the time! Another one of those crazy graffiti trucks that bomb around the city.