The late Don Bryant’s most fruitful relationship was with Hi Records songstress Ann Peebles. The two were married over 50 years and co-wrote many songs together including her 1973 classic tune “I Can’t Stand the Rain”. #RIPDonBryant m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW0Q...

Freaking love this city and all the people in it so much….a bunch of people went and turned the 4 train into the Polar Express giving out toys to kids along the way from the Bronx to Brooklyn….shoutout to the @newyorkers.live account on IG for doing this 🙏 www.instagram.com/reel/DSnsvWS...

Will always prefer white pine from now on. Our little wild tree is the best we’ve ever had. Its long needles and light branches demand fewer decorations. Everything about it is forest.

Living on the coast, you're on the salt border with the King-Under-the-Sea. Given he has claim on all the tide touches, that makes ebb and flow, high, low and slack important. Out here, you live according to tide tables. You live with one eye on the waves. – Jacky Cogg #VOH

Joe Strummer (aka John Graham Mellor) died on this day in 2002 at age 50. Here's a photo from Dec. 14 of Dr. Revolt's mural (the first iteration created in 2004) outside Niagara on Seventh Street and Avenue A in the East Village...

We’d like to share a remembrance for Betty Reid Soskin, the oldest serving National Park Service ranger in the country, who has passed away. Her life and work helped preserve history, expand whose stories are told, and inspire generations to come.

Hi. Been at a Board annual summit meeting for my volunteering org. Been a helluva year. I did b'fast & lunch & vegan coconut squash soup w/ rice on the side made everyone happy. It was a great meeting and we have a lot of work ahead. Gil Scott-Heron in my head now youtu.be/eV_astp3BjM?...

From a discount store on Fifth Avenue (Brooklyn) circa 1989. It’s lost some of its plumage over the decades, and is just too frail to sit on the tree anymore, but will still have a home in the ornament box with all the others.

Yes, there is a reindeer under construction. The six-year old will shortly be painting its face.

Finally! Yes!

Morning all Photograph by Paul Himmel. Falling Snow - Boy in the Window, New York 1952.

Late afternoon light.

Near the East River, frame & brick.

Remembering #Hank’s. A trailer for the upcoming doc on Hank’s, the loved & much missed Brooklyn bar. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSZr...

omg www.nytimes.com/2019/12/03/b...

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Due to overwhelming demand, a recently restored 1980 documentary about how New Yorkers use their public spaces is returning to the big screen for an encore run in January 2026. gothamist.com/news/the-mid...

Absolutely killer sunset tonight

A young Red-Tailed Hawk is illuminated by a late afternoon sunbeam. 🪶 #Raptors

Definitely a touch of a Joyce Grenfell lilt from the first woman we see in a thatched cottage. Love the topiary horse. Lots of memories of my mother’s front garden in Cheshire, and the cows that invaded it from time to time. Forget-me-nots.

A beautiful day for walking in the city. Heading down Lexington to Kalustyan’s.

“You chose a billionaire over New Yorkers? Shame on you… Stealing from poor people to make a billionaire more money? You should be ashamed of yourself!”

NYC, PLEASE call your New York City Council member and DEMAND they vote to censure Vicky Paladino immediately. Find your council member here: council.nyc.gov/districts/ Also, follow the @nycprogressives.bsky.social. They're on the job here.

James Bailey - Like a Cat Loves a Bird The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark À paraître en juin aux Princeton UP

That's a peanut butter covered banana nugget in his (?) pie hole.

Former studio and home of ceramicists Otto and Gertrud Netzler for sale for the first time in 80 years. Absolute dream home. 7837 Woodrow Wilson Dr Los Angeles, CA 90046

Ardalanish Beach on the island of #Mull is a haven for interesting rocks. This small stream finds a way through at low tide. #scapes #photography #landscape #coast #Scotland

Tidal Marsh at River Wyre, Lancashire, UK 08.12.2013 #lancashire #uk #landscape #landscapephotography #river #rivers #valokuvataivas

Afternoon light, Broome Street.

“Now next to being a jockey, Kay had longed to be a young stag. Now he realised he had become one.” The Box of Delights, by John Masefield. Illustrated by Judith Masefield. A perfect December book. And this particular picture lies right at the heart of my childhood.

Asphalt plant shut down in Blissville ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...

Tiny reindeer from a map of Norway in vol.1 of Joan Blaeu's 11 volume Atlas Major, 1662 #Christmas #Maps

the faces of horses, birds, serpents, and fish

this is the worst thing a member of the Durst family has ever done

The Sun it shines for all. ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2020/11/16/a...

Today's drawing. Musing on a possum fursona.

“The man is the 14th person who died at Rikers or shortly after being released from Rikers so far this year, according to Gothamist’s tracking of Department of Correction reports. The total is more than twice the number of deaths there last year.”

“Of the 3,212 people ICE arrested across the five boroughs this year, 2,250 — or 70% of them — have neither a criminal conviction nor charge.”

7-inch version of 1979 song "How Long Jah" by British roots reggae group Misty in Roots. From their debut album, 1979's Live at the Counter Eurovision. #Reggae #RootsReggae m.youtube.com/watch?v=Eorx...

Steaming’

“But you, that are polluted with your lusts, Stain’d with the guiltless blood of innocents, Corrupt and tainted with a thousand vices, Because you want the grace that others have, You judge it straight a thing impossible To compass wonders but by help of devils.” Henry VI, Part 1.

NEW: Federal agents wearing tactical gear and wielding assault rifles busted into an apartment in Jackson Heights Thursday morning as a helicopter hovered overhead, according to eyewitnesses and video obtained by THE CITY. buff.ly/hbjzh2q

I have lived five blocks from this building for almost 20 years and never noticed it before. On the northeast corner of 46th St and Broadway, the I. Miller Building was a shoe store owned by Israel Miller. The 46th St side reads “The Show Folks Shoe Shop Dedicated to Beauty in Footwear.”

for an artist who died in absolute penury...

The 1977 piece "Radhe-Shyam" by Alice Coltrane has Coltrane on harp playing with a string quartet. Opening cut on the album Transcendence. Length: 7:10. #Jazz #JazzMusic m.youtube.com/watch?v=RaZ0...

Terrible, just plain terrible.

I can't stress enough that you should take every opportunity that comes your way to support your local public libraries. Many of them are currently struggling and are being DEFUNDED. Local action matters on this front. Don't sit back until those libraries are gone before taking ACTION.

He may be 14, but he’s still got all the bounce & wild joy of a kid when the first real snow of the season arrives. The sweetest, kindest dog ever.

Three in One: a White Ibis, Roseate Spoonbill, and Great Egret share a moment in a dark pond. 🪶