The Roosevelt Island Tram is shutting down on March 1st for 6th months so Alan, Zoe and Andrea and I decided to go on it for the first time last night. The tram goes between Manhattan, at 2nd Avenue and 60th Street to Roosevelt Island, a long, narrow island in the East River between Manhattan and Queens. There are two tramcars and during the day they run every 15 minutes, the ride takes less than five minutes so we had time to do it four times.
The tram has been around since 1976, before that the only transit access to Roosevelt Island was a trolly that crossed the Queensboro bridge and stopped in the middle where an elevator took passengers down to the Island. Now there is also a subway stop on Roosevelt Island north of the tram and bridge.
The tram arrives on Roosevelt Island
View of Queens and the bridge from Roosevelt Island
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Andrea
First Alan got mad at the railing...
...then Zoe decided to join in!
On the tram
View of the East River
View of 1st Avenue
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Roosevelt Island Tram
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Snowmageddon
Here is a picture of the elevated tracks near my house. On Tuesday it did snow all day but the last two days have been pretty warm and so it got slushy quite quickly. Mostly now there is snow on rooftops and awnings, in piles that people shoveled it into and there is scary ice sheets on some parts of the sidewalk from the snow melting and then puddles freezing again!
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Two Old Panoramas
Capitol building in July (Notice the woman in the blue shirt in two places!)
Zach above Culver City in April (the pole in the middle kinda confused the computer)
Friday, February 5, 2010
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Chrysler Building
The sweatshirt is actually purple but it didn't come out in the picture, maybe if I take one outside.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
taller far than a tall man
A field trip to various literary landmarks:
"Go ahead, then--I'll be on this bench right over here. I'll watch ya." I went over and sat down on this bench, and she went and got on the carrousel."
By any chance, do you happen to know where they go, the ducks, when it gets all frozen over? Do you happen to know, by any chance?" I realized it was only one chance in a million.
Supposedly, a childhood home.
Finally I sat down on this bench, where it wasn't so goddam dark. Boy, I was still shivering like a bastard, and the back of my hair, even though I had my hunting hat on, was sort of full of little hunks of ice. That worried me. I thought probably I'd get pneumonia and die. I started picturing millions of jerks coming to my funeral and all.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Pear Corn Muffins
This was sorta based off of this recipe but I changed stuff becuase that's the way I do it.
4 peeled and diced pears
1.5 c ground purple cornmeal
1.5 c rice flour
1/2 c tapioca starch
2 tsp salt
2 tbsp baking powder
2 tsp cinnamon
1 c olive oil
2 bananas
1 c coconut milk
1 1/3 c brown sugar
2 splashes of rum
Mix all the dry ingredients, mix all the wet ingredients and sugar, mix them together, put in the pears. I baked it at 350 for about 25 minutes. They were a little dry but also if you thought about them as being cornbread it seemed more normal to be dryish, but it was hard to think of them as cornbread because they were purple. The pears were really good inside and made up for them being dry. Gluten free and vegan. It made 23 muffins.
Monday, January 18, 2010
Ravioli
I made some pumpkin ravioli with Andrea at 1518, my favorite place in the world! It turned out okay, it was hard to get the dough thin enough (maybe a real rolling pin would help). Also each time we rolled it out it was harder. It was still good though.
I made a new header for the blog, it's kinda silly I might make another one soon that's more colorful. But it is from a picture that I took the first day I was in New York on my bike.
Monday, January 11, 2010
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Antarctica Takes It!
My friend Dylan plays music as Antarctica Takes It! and he is almost done recording his new album called Constellations, he's trying to raise some money to release it so he made this video and a kickstarter page to try to do that. The end of the video makes more sense on the original page.