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New York City, you are at times, the most-cruel mistress. Must've been a sick bike.
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An auspicious sign to begin a road trip!
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Woke up early Saturday morning to some kind of crazy explosion sound. Looked out my window and there was smoke pouring out of grates across the street.
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...and someone dunked their feet in purple paint and made footsteps that go between the two community gardens. (Adam Purple pretty much single-handedly created every garden in the Lower East Side by riding his bike up to the central park horse stables, collecting manure, and carting it back downtown to mix into the soil around all the empty lots where they'd torn buildings down. Over the years and through thousands of trips with manure, he turned all the empty lots into fertile topsoil where plants could grow!
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Got this excellent flyer handed to me by neighbors in my building advertising their awesome upcoming party! (I obviously went!)
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I was walking out, she was walking in! Look who I ran into on the way home! If you need a pack of smokes, a toy with blinking lights or a DVD with either variety of a person having sex with a horse ("You want man fuck horse or horse fuck man?") THIS is your lady! (I've been running into her on the mean, late-night streets of NYC since 2005!)
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Awesome wheatpaste transformation of the facade on the corner of 7th & C. This was one of thirteen awesome interactive portals (see the QR code at the bottom?) hidden throughout the East Village by artists Nicolina Johnson and Perola Bonfanti.