Veselka and dawn off the glass. 2nd Avenue and East 9th Street, East Village.

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Ice Cream at Dawn. Davey’s Ice Cream, East 9th Street, East Village.

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Little Ruby’s, West 4th Street and 7th Avenue South. The old Riviera Cafe, where Lou Reed kicked John Cale out of the Velvet Undergound.

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Back for the morning light. White Horse Tavern, Hudson Street, West 11th Street, West Village, Greenwich Village.

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Fish Prep, Before the Fish. Getting ready for the day. Mott Street, Chinatown.

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Holiday Cocktail Lounge. Neighborhood place with a nice morning glow. St. Marks Place, East Village.

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Happy New Year to all. Washington Square Arch looking up 5th Avenue.

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Happy New Year’s Eve. Drink, Sing, All Good…Planet Rose. 2) The always festive interior. Avenue A, East Village.

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Clean up, aisle 7. Cafe Habana, Prince Street, Nolita.

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The Day After. No Tell Motel, Avenue A, East Village.

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Hester and Orchard, Lower East Side, Lighting Assist by Wray.

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Inspiration In Reach. Somehow I’m not seeing it. Bleecker Street storefront in flux. Noho in the morning.

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Elvis Under Exit Sign Lighting. Elvis, the old Great Jones Cafe, with a long exposure to gather the light. Elvis bust is no longer in the window. I haven’t been inside but I wonder if “Elvis has left the building”.

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Ray’s Candy with a few holiday lights. Ray on the overnight shift, of course. Avenue A, East Village.

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Looking at the flowers in the morning. Julia Testa, Thompson Street, Soho. Window/street.

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Painted in, painted on, tagged, graffitied, romanticized. Stable, auction house, “Gangs of New York” era gang clubhouse, boxing club, Andy Warhol building, Basquiat studio (and crown). Now Atelier Jolie.

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Minetta Tavern, Cafe Wha?, MacDoughal Street, Minetta Lane, Greenwich Village.

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Casa Adela, prep time and overnight parking. Loisaida Avenue/Avenue C, Loisaida, East Village.

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Remnants of a Western Theme (that is/used to be a cattle skull for the doorway. The side door to Doc Hollidays, East 9th Street,/Avenue A, East Village.

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We Are Here. The Gutter, at 5am, and ICP. Essex Street, Lower East Side.

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Greetings from Chinatown. Allen/Pike Street and Division, Lower East Side/Chinatown.

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The Green Glow. Side door at Julius.

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5am, Walking the Manhattan Bridge. 1) The noisiest place every so often, then silence. 2&3) A little “bridge art”.

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Libertine, Chairs Up, Clean Up. Christopher Street and Greenwich Street, West Village.

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Happy Thanksgiving. 1) Where Harry met Sally, 2) Send a Salami To Your Boy in the Army. A little pre-holiday warm up in the pre-dawn hours, Katz’s Delicatessen, Ludlow and Houston, Lower East Side.

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The Point. Eldridge and Division Streets, Lower East Side.

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Trash Tuesday. Trash and Vaudeville, East 7th Street, East Village.

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The Life of a Bowery Tree. Bowery Mural poking in on the left. The Bowery, Houston Street, Lower East Side, East Village, Noho.

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Both ways, down the tunnel, and to the gate. 1&2) Going in. 3) And out. 4) From the sidewalk. The Lower East Side Toy Company (The Back Room/The Back Room Speakeasy), Norfolk Street, Lower East Side.

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Beckoning Party Lights. Once again…can’t seem to walk by a string of party lights at 5am. Holiday Cocktail Lounge, St. Marks Place, East Village.

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