Fifty Favorites, Number Forty-Six

17 August '12 -- By my own estimate, there are about a million dogs in New York City. I've photographed many of them, sometimes in my own cab, sometimes in cabs beside me in traffic, and a couple of times on the back seats of motorcycles. This dog, clearly a hipster, is my favorite.

Fifty Favorites, Number Forty-Four

16 June '12 -- If you enlarge the image you will see written at the bottom of the sign, "sidewalk cynic". This fellow was sort of a hybrid of a beggar, a hustler, a comedian, and a social satirist.

Fifty Favorites, Number Thirteen

                            

13 March '09 -- Now here is a really cute message that I think well expresses the sense of humor of New York City.  At first glance this looks like just a typical sign which was handwritten onto a fence beside a vacant lot.  But if you look carefully between the letters P and I in the word "DUMPING", however, you will find that some wiseass has added -- in red ink -- the letter L.  Considering that this was in Chinatown,  a place where every other shop is a Chinese restaurant, I thought it was very funny.

Chelsea

Lower East Side

Union Square

Who Do You Think You Are?

Bushwick, Brooklyn

Merci, Marie

West Side

Midtown

Times Square

From When NYC Was Just A Baby

Nuns And Roses

All right, tulips.

Yo Momma Wears Army Boots

Hell's Kitchen

Hell's Kitchen

East Village

Times Square

Museum Of Sex, Flatiron District

Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn

A: Cardboard cut-outs waiting to be recycled.