People Watching

I decided to spend today in Washington Square Park reading and people watching, quite possibly my favorite pastime. I took the subway over to the village and made my way to the park. Along the way I grabbed some lunch, a nice grilled panini did just fine. I found a nice park bench opposite a harmonica equiped man serenading passers-by. He liked to call out to random women, dogs and babies. The dogs and babies talked back, the women not so much.

The park was full of photo shoots today for some reason. Just down from me was a crew shooting an older man dressed in a nice suit. I'm not sure what the photos were for, but they seemed pretty pointless. The crew consisted of about 10 guys, but most were just standing around eating the free donuts. One guys job was solely to tuck the models shirt in for him and make sure his jacket was laying right. The only guys that seemed essential to the production were the photographer and the computer guy.After a solid three hours of people watching and reading, I headed uptown for a second lunch with the roomates. We hit up a Sushi place that was pretty good. I headed back to the subway afterwards, heading back home. I took a few shots along the way, pictured here.

Big Up to Brooklyn

After weeks and weeks of searching for a place to live in New York City, I have finally found one. Very randomly, and very conveniently, I ran into a friend's sorority sister on a subway platform. She just happened to be moving out of her place, making just enough room for me to move in. Five days later, I was all moved in to Brooklyn and living with two fellow PSU alumni.
Driggs Ave is the new home base, just one short block from Bedford Ave. It's a great location and short commute to Manhattan for work. Above is the view from our stoop. Just down the street is the subway stop that will wisk me off to Manhattan every day.
On the first night, there was a two car accident right out front of our building. The three of us did the typical accident gawking thing. We ran outside, along with half of the neighborhood, to watch as NYPD secured the area and NYFD helped the people involved. As far as we could tell, one car ran a stop sign causing another to side-swipe him. Damage was pretty bad and they got out the 'jaws of life' to cut away the driver's door and get him out.
After the excitement, I returned to continue unpacking. Around midnight I heard a steady dripping sound inside my room. I looked up to pleasantly find that my room came equiped with a waterfall! How charming. Apparently, a pipe had broken up there, also killing the hot water for a couple days, and the dripping happens every so often. After securing the stereotypical bucket underneath the leak, we called the super to get him to fix it. That night was spent waking up every few hours to empty the bucket so that it wouldn't overflow onto the floor. Needless to say, I overslept a few times on that one.
The next day, however, the leak was fixed and hot water was restored. I finished my unpacking and snapped a few shots of my breathtaking view, pictured above. So the room is all set up, and the summer is ready to get started. I'll try to make updates as much as possible as exciting things happen. Stay tuned!