Green-Wood Cemetery: This is Brooklyn Too

Category: New York

Pandora’s box. Imagine a giant hand flipping the city upside down and shaking hard. These are the strange images that might fall off at random.

Green-Wood Cemetery: This is Brooklyn Too

September 2, 2011

New York

A stormy day, too little time to explore. I had assumed the Green-Wood cemetery would be like Calvary in Queens. It is nothing like it. Beside the obvious visit to the ancestors,...

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Hurricanes and this Blog: Of a Coriolis-tic Origin

August 28, 2011

Hurricane Sandy, Hydrosphere, New York, Science

While hurricane Irene bore down on New York City last night, so steady in her course and yet spinning more wildly than a runaway top, I considered reminding my...

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New York City Under the Irene Algorithm

August 27, 2011

Blogging, New York

The funny thing is - or maybe it's not funny - when a hurricane and the Eastern Seaboard interact, the result is an explosion of wild numbers. Here's the picture so far,...

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Cat. 1 Hurricane Irene Seen from Space

August 27, 2011

Hydrosphere, New York, Science

This scene of Irene making landfall in North Carolina early on August 27th was produced by NOAA's Environmental Visualization Laboratory, whose beautiful images I have enjoyed...

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New York Under a State of Emergency as Hurricane Irene Closes In

August 26, 2011

New York

I have mixed feelings about all this. Been there too many times. Felt the worry, seen the damage, experienced it on a level that closely resembles fascination, the morbid kind,...

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Earthquake!

August 23, 2011

New York, Photoblogs

It would appear today's tremor was felt very strongly in parts of NYC. With an epicenter located somewhere in Virginia and ranking a respectable 5.9 on the infamous Richter scale,...

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