East Broadway Ron's Radio Weblog

Wed, 30 May 2007 15:03:39 GMT

"Engine" room at Pratt Institute:

Sun, 18 Mar 2007 21:28:56 GMT

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:07:57 GMT

Manhattan side of the Williamsburg Bridge.

Sat, 13 Jan 2007 14:28:56 GMT

My brother sent this to me a few months ago and I just got around to reading it: Donald Rumsfeld briefed the President this morning. He told Bush that 3 Brazilian solders were killed in Iraq. To everyone's amazement, all the color drained from Bush's face, then he collapsed onto his desk, head in hands, visibly shaken, almost in tears. Finally, he composed himself and asked Rumsfeld, "Just exactly how many is a Brazilian?"

Sat, 13 Jan 2007 13:50:37 GMT

E train from LIRR/Suthpin to 71st Continental. The front window was very dirty.

Sun, 07 Jan 2007 02:41:51 GMT

Sunset over the harbor, taken from water taxi pier in the East River just below Wall Street. It is a sequence of stills put together in a Quicktime movie. The individual images are at .25 seconds. There is a copter landing from the left.

Sun, 31 Dec 2006 00:21:43 GMT

Found a time lapse video I made in May 2001. I put a web camera at my window and had it take a picture every 15 seconds and then left for work. I returned home later that evening and this is the result:

Fri, 29 Dec 2006 15:06:33 GMT

I was awakened early this morning by the sound of fire engines going down the street. Usually I fall back to sleep as they continue down East Broadway past my window; but this morning they stopped in front. Now I was awake. I live in an old tenement and with the engines stopped just outside; it was time to investigage. I looked out the window and saw that the main activity was two doors down so I could put on some clothes and go out on the fire escape and take some pictures. Here is a video pan of the engines that showed up for the show. It is taken using the video mode of my Canon PowerShot A95: B&W version using B&W in the video mode: