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I like my neighborhood. Someone hung these up around the park to try to get people to pick up their dog poop. "Do the right thing"
the january roundup
January, 2018
la plaza cultural + east village
While out walking Maddy...
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...I noticed someone had put up a passive aggressive generation burn note on the La Plaza community bulletin board. Spicy!
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...exploring La Plaza with Maddy.
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Thursday afternoon...
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Woke up early on Wednesday to perfect weather and walked over to...
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Looked out the window to find the paper mache dragon I'd seen my neighbors making in the garden a few days earlier! Looked really great after being painted!
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Gael Garcia Bernal in front of the La Plaza gates.
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Headed out into the world. Digging the newly-painted purple footprints.
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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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On the walk home I passed the La Plaza bulletin board and learned that Adam Purple had died.
la plaza cultural + east village
Did you know that there are peach trees in Manhattan?
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I ate two delicious East Village peaches right off the tree!
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Was early so I could walk Maddy before aikido class.
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I spent Sunday evening watching a documentary Davo sent me about a Dutch journalist interviewing Iggy Pop as he walks the interviewer around my neighborhood in 1993.
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Ran some twilight hour errands in the neighborhood...